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Increase taxes for working people, or make the super-rich pay their fair share? The answer seems obvious – but not to Labour

Rachel Reeves has unnecessarily blocked her options of what to include in her budget, says Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah of the New Economics Foundation

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves reveals she's planning to increase income tax at the Budget

The move would break one of Labour’s core manifesto promises in an attempt to close the black hole in public finances Reeves’ government inherited

Evening Standard

Kemi Badenoch to relaunch exclusive ‘advisory board’ for high-value donors

Exclusive: Tory leader has plans to reinstate group that provided top donors with direct access to senior ministers

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Close Starmer ally Ben Nunn appointed as Rachel Reeves’s chief of staff

Exclusive: Nunn, one of PM’s most trusted advisers, will play key role linking No 10 and No 11 operations

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer hit by bitter Cabinet infighting over Lammy’s handling of jail crisis and Labour revolt on tax

Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell says the Government ‘should be following through’ on its manifesto pledge on not raising key taxes

Evening Standard

MPs urge Reeves to raise gambling taxes despite ‘scaremongering’ from firms

Treasury select committee calls for higher duties on most addictive forms, such as high-street slots and online games

The Guardian - UK

Labour must stick to manifesto pledge not to raise key taxes, Lucy Powell says

The new deputy leader’s intervention could cause a headache for Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who has rolled the pitch for higher taxes at her Budget.

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Badenoch accused of ‘interfering’ in lobbying scandal linked to Cameron

Lex Greensill alleges current Tory leader used business secretary position to protect former PM from scrutiny

The Guardian - UK

Britain’s two-party politics is fragmenting: what unintended consequences await?

On one hand, no more safe seats or long careers could mean less complacency. On the other, no big parties could mean greater corporate influence, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Gambler Reeves to put billions more of taxpayers’ cash on red as she struggles to make Budget numbers add up

The Chancellor has signalled that she is ready to drive a coach and horses through Labour’s manifesto

Evening Standard

Labour MPs revive ‘desperately needed’ soft left group to take on Reform

Exclusive: Tribune hopes over 100 MPs join group led by Vicky Foxcroft and former cabinet minister Louise Haigh

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK suspends another member of Kent county council

Isabella Kemp’s departure means party has lost nine of 57 councillors elected in May, including four after video leak

The Guardian - UK

Top Tory Susan Hall faces backlash after suggesting some hate crime victims need to 'toughen up'

Stop mollycoddling people and teach them life skills to cope with abuse, suggests Conservative leader at City Hall

Evening Standard

Reform may face legal action from removed Kent councillors

The party won 57 of the 81 council seats in May, but now has 48 following nine suspensions and removals.

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Lammy says he was not ‘equipped with the details’ when facing questions on mistaken prisoner release at PMQs – as it happened

Deputy PM accused of being ‘dishonest’ and his performance at PMQs ‘a disgrace’ by Tory MPs

Evening Standard

Lammy admits 'mountain to climb' on prisons crisis as 40 more inmates may be wrongly freed before Christmas

Pressure is increasing on the Justice Secretary David Lammy over his handling of the blunders

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves is damned if she raises income tax in the budget – and damned if she doesn’t

The only way the chancellor can save herself is to lower living costs or make big improvements to public services. Farage waits in the wings if not, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Reform UK takes aim at pensions overhaul during pitch to business chiefs

Deputy leader Richard Tice said he wanted to emulate the ‘Big Bang’ the City experienced in the 1980s with a ‘big reform’.

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Evening Standard

Reform ‘don’t care’ about the Union, Kemi Badenoch claims

The Conservative leader criticised rivals Reform UK, insisting Nigel Farage’s party ‘don’t care about the independence debate’.

Evening Standard

Labour has duty to deliver reforms to workers’ rights, Rayner tells Commons

‘I say to my colleagues on the frontbench that I will be with you every step of the way as we do just that,’ the former deputy prime minister said.

The Guardian - UK

Miscounting to six costs Tory stand-in his gotcha against poppy-shock Lammy

Plucked from obscurity, James Cartlidge messed up his maths while his opposite number had forgotten his politics 101

The Guardian - UK

Lessons for liberals: what can Dutch progressives’ victory over populism teach the world?

Rob Jetten beat far-right firebrand Geert Wilders in the recent election, but that doesn’t mean it’s the start of Europe’s progressive surge

Evening Standard

Lammy’s lack of poppy during PMQs branded a ‘disgrace’

The Deputy Prime Minister could later be seen wearing a badge about 15 minutes into the session.

Evening Standard

Badenoch warns of ‘oil and gas emergency’ in call for new drilling

The Conservative leader travelled to the north-east of Scotland to launch her party’s new campaign to end the moratorium on new oil and gas licences.

Evening Standard

'Get a grip, man!' David Lammy in fiery PMQ's clash over accidental release of migrant sex offender

Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary, David Lammy, filled in for Sir Keir Starmer at fiery Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday

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