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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

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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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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.

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

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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

Evening Standard

Unfair to say locals were not consulted on asylum barracks plan – Alexander

The Scottish Secretary hit back at claims the UK Government failed to engage with Inverness officials over proposals to house 300 migrants there.

Evening Standard

Budget tax hikes should be coupled with major reform, Osborne says

Tory ex-chancellor George Osborne conceded large reforms to the tax system can be difficult politically as he pointed to his 2012 ‘pasty tax’ budget.

Evening Standard

The grace period is over – so what now for Kemi Badenoch, the ‘not Robert Jenrick’ Tory leader?

Desperate to avoid another regicide, the party wanted to give Badenoch a fair crack. But a year in, that resolve is crumbling, says ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill

The Guardian - UK

Chancellor under rising pressure amid warning UK finance blackhole must be plugged ‘with 2p income tax hike’

Rachel Reeves has given strong indications she will break Labour’s manifesto promise not to raise taxes on “working people” at her Budget on November 26

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Thinktanks urge Rachel Reeves to overhaul ‘broken’ tax system

Coalition says ‘arbitrary and nonsensical’ rules are penalising work and discouraging investment

The Guardian - UK

Economic policy is one thing Nigel Farage can’t crib from the Donald Trump playbook

The Maga model, based on the US’s exorbitant market privileges, can’t be imported to Britain. That’s going to be a problem for Reform UK, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’s speech: gambling on a mirage of stability

Editorial: The chancellor’s bid to appear fiscally credible hides a deeper weakness: a growth model built on private debt and political theatre, not real economic renewal

The Independent UK

Our hapless chancellor has finally run out of wiggle room

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Rachel Reeves has asked each of us to ‘do our bit’ as she prepares to break her party’s manifesto pledge and raise income tax – but it is now clear that she has made the bad situation she inherited worse

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Reeves wants to talk about the budget, but she’s taken a vow of white noise

Exclusive: It must be tough overseeing Schrödinger’s economy, fixing the foundations while also failing to fix them

Evening Standard

Full English breakfast at risk from rising prices under Labour, says MP

The Conservative’s Mark Pritchard said the Government would not be forgiven for taking the British staple away from the UK’s high streets.

The Guardian - UK

Reeves aims to prepare voters and markets for possible budget tax rises

Speech attempts to take back narrative with talk of ‘years of economic mismanagement’, Brexit and tariffs

Evening Standard

Government has given up trying to ‘live within its means’, claims Badenoch

The Tory leader accused Labour of being ‘hypocritical’ for asking the public ‘to tighten their belts’.

The Guardian - UK

UK lawyers warn of ‘race to the bottom’ after Tory MP issues deportation threat

Top lawyers call for change in rhetoric that has left minority ethnic Britons fearful as politicians target migrants

The Guardian - UK

Public servants are being targeted and MPs have been murdered. But we will prevent fear from destroying our politics

A new law will restrict protests outside the homes of public office holders. The right to demonstrate is a given, but to menace private homes is just not right, says security minister Dan Jarvis

The Guardian - UK

Reeves refuses to say she will stick to manifesto pledge on tax rises and insists she must face world ‘as it is’ – as it happened

Chancellor says she is focused on priorities for British people in pre-budget speech laying ground for expected tax rises

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