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The Latest Breaking News on UK Politics

PM shoulders blame for welfare fiasco and says No 10 ‘didn’t get process right’

Keir Starmer says Downing Street should have engaged more with Labour MPs and repeats support for Rachel Reeves

The Guardian - UK

Starmer backs ‘excellent’ Reeves after Chancellor’s tears in the Commons

Sir Keir Starmer said Rachel Reeves was upset about a personal issue, and was caught on camera because there’s no ‘hiding place’ in politics.

Evening Standard

Anti-apartheid activists would have been called terrorists under logic banning Palestine Action, Peter Hain says – as it happened

Labour peer says he is ‘deeply ashamed’ his party is backing moves to ban group

The Guardian - UK

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PM takes blame for welfare U-turn as he gives full backing to Chancellor

Speaking in his first interview since a threatened backbench revolt, Sir Keir Starmer acknowledged the past few days had been ‘tough’.

Evening Standard

Reeves is 'fine' and will be Chancellor 'into next election', says Starmer after her PMQs tears hit markets

The Prime Minister said he spoke to Ms Reeves on Wednesday evening and she is ‘fine’

Evening Standard

Thursday briefing: Labour is betting on an NHS overhaul to deliver real change, but can they pull it off?

In today’s newsletter: With no new funding and a workforce already stretched, questions loom over whether ambition alone can overcome a system in crisis

The Guardian - UK

For all the errors and crises, the blight on Starmer’s first year is still the lack of vision

Prime ministers have recovered from bad starts. But unless Starmer can articulate an idea of the Britain he wants, the public – and his party – may desert him, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

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MPs declare more than £1m of gifts and hospitality in year since election

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage declared the highest value, receiving gifts worth a total of £98,709 over the past year.

Evening Standard

Labour sees biggest first-year poll drop for governing party since 1990s

The last government to experience a double-digit fall in the 12 months after an election was John Major’s Conservatives.

Evening Standard

Starmer faces Labour turmoil and global volatility as he marks year in Number 10

The Prime Minister’s first year in office has been marked by a series of domestic and global challenges after Labour’s landslide victory.

Evening Standard

Labour delivers mixed picture on environment after one year, campaigners say

Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth say concerns remain over nature and anti-protest policies after assessing the party’s first year in office.

The Independent UK

UK's Starmer Backs Finance Minister After Tears In Parliament

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday said that finance minister Rachel Reeves would remain in her role for "a very long time to come" after she appeared visibly upset in parliament as rumours swirled around her future.

International Business Times

Ex-spending watchdog called in to probe £10 million Lords front door ‘scandal’

The expensive debacle at Westminster has led to demands for those responsible to resign.

Evening Standard

House of Lords votes to block expulsion of hereditary peers

Peers supported an amendment to the House of Lords (Hereditary Peers) Bill that would instead see a gradual reduction of bloodline peers.

Evening Standard

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Evening Standard

Lords reform task force proposed amid moves to oust hereditary peers

Concerns were raised that a select committee might be ‘a very good and highly-qualified talking shop’ but ignored by the Government.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare rebellion: Starmer must learn from his mistakes

Editorial: A poorly devised cuts policy was mis-sold as reform and MPs were dismissed when they pointed out the problem

The Guardian - UK

Welfare climbdown lets genie out of the bottle, and no one knows what happens next

Government has double challenge to plug £5bn hole while restoring sense that it retains authority and control

Evening Standard

Tory conference to be held in ‘smallest house in the world’, Welsh minister jokes

Welsh government minister Ken Skates joked the Tories will be able to fit ‘in the porchway’ of Conwy’s small house following Senedd election in May.

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The Guardian - UK

Survival-mode Starmer throws tearful chancellor to wolves at PMQs

Even Kemi Badenoch was able to land punches after prime minister failed to guarantee Rachel Reeves’s position

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves year in review: Chancellor's 2025 is no cause for celebration

City confidence in her is rock bottom — and Rachel Reeves’s high wire act is just one misstep away from a full blown financial crisis, says Jonathan Prynn

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK hires ex-Tory MP who was suspended for using racist language

Anne Marie Morris, twice suspended while an MP between 2010 and 2024, will lead Reform’s social care policy

The Guardian - UK

Green party leadership race is between joint-MP ticket and deputy’s ‘eco-populism’ bid

Ellie Chowns and Adrian Ramsay offer election-led approach, while Zack Polanski wants radical, mass-membership movement

The Independent UK

Voices: Only Angela Rayner has emerged from the welfare debacle with her reputation intact

COMMENT: It took the intervention of the deputy prime minister to persuade the prime minister that the game was up – now some Labour MPs are wondering if she’ll replace him, writes John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Voices: It’s hard to see how Rachel Reeves can survive

COMMENT: The chancellor deserves our sympathy, writes Simon Walters, but resignation may now be inevitable. And her boss’s credibility has also taken a huge hit – the prime minister remains in office but not in power

The Independent UK

Voices: Watching Rachel Reeves crying in the Commons was quietly devastating

COMMENT: A single tear rolled down the chancellor’s cheeks at PMQs in a rare and distressing display of emotion from the ‘Iron Chancellor’. I found myself wanting to cry too, says Victoria Richards

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