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Minimum wage to rise 6.7% as Chancellor plots path to ‘genuine living wage’

Wages will rise for 3.5 million workers, but the Low Pay Commission warned businesses were beginning to struggle with large increases.

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Watchdog moves to simplify rules on MPs’ expenses

Parliamentary watchdog Ipsa has proposed a series of changes, including a move away from ‘mechanistic rule following’.

Evening Standard

No 10 denies cover-up after Southport suspect charged with terror offence

Downing Street insisted the timing of the latest charging announcement was a matter for the Crown Prosecution Service.

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OPINION - Praful Nargund was supposed to beat Jeremy Corbyn, now he symbolises Labour's business challenges

When Praful Nargund stood against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North at the July general election, I heard several confident predictions about why the moderate and business-savvy candidate favoured by Keir Starmer’s ruthlessly disciplined machine would promptly see off Jeremy Corbyn – the Old Testament prophet of doomful state socialism in…

Evening Standard

Mourners say goodbye to ‘political giant’ Alex Salmond at his funeral

Former SNP leader and first minister ‘restored pride in our nation’, says acting Alba head in eulogy

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - The public has no idea how governments spend money

I'm generally in favour of mild ignorance. A nation where the average citizen takes an obsessive interest in politics sounds exhausting best, dystopian at worst. Voters are busy people with children to shepherd and TV shows to stream. This is why they elect politicians and hope that structures are in…

Evening Standard

‘Make Britain vaguely civilised again’? Sounds great – but not the way this Tory MP would do it, thanks

Neil O’Brien’s simplistic plan isn’t really about antisocial behaviour. It’s a litany of rightwing gripes aimed at human rights, says writer and broadcaster Anne Perkins

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John Swinney gives statement amid row over Nicola Sturgeon probe legal advice

FIRST Minister John Swinney has given a statement to Holyrood after the Scottish Government published legal advice relating to the independent…

The National (Scotland)

Hunt accused of trying to ‘blame the referee’ over OBR ‘black hole’ review

Tory former chancellor Jeremy Hunt has written to the UK’s top civil servant about an Office for Budget Responsibility review of his spending plans.

The Independent UK

Budget 2024: Commons clash on 'higher mortgage rates' from Labour's Rachel Reeves borrowing billions to invest

The Chancellor is expected in the Budget on Wednesday to ease her debt fiscal rules to borrow some £20 billion extra to fund transport and other infrastructure projects

Evening Standard

Calls for unity as Conservative leadership election draws to a close

Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick have entered the final few days of campaigning.

The Independent UK

OPINION - Nimco Ali: It has to be Kemi Badenoch for Tory leader, not lobotomised, hard-Right Robert Jenrick

I have known Kemi Badenoch for a while — I met her at an Evening Standard event in 2017 — and the picture we took at that event recently popped up on my social media memories and I took a moment to think: could I ever have imagined that seven…

Evening Standard

Reeves hints at business rates reforms but declines to rule out fuel duty hike

The Chancellor also faced calls to reverse a cut to the winter fuel payment.

The Independent UK

Labour MP 'punched man after row about fuel payments and bridge closure'

A SUSPENDED Labour MP who was allegedly caught on camera punching a man to the ground did so after an argument about the Winter Fuel Payment,…

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Trott: Labour delivering greatest hits of government mistakes ahead of Budget

Conservative MP Laura Trott suggested Labour was ‘taking lessons from the worst bits of our record’ in its opening days in power.

The National (Scotland)

Budget fiasco sees Labour's conduct compared with Tory partygate lies

LABOUR’S disregard for parliamentary rules by announcing parts of their Budget to American news channels is comparable to Boris Johnson lying…

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt calls on government not to release OBR review into his spending plans

Former chancellor accuses Rachel Reeves of politicising Office for Budget Responsibility by release on budget day

Evening Standard

Alex Salmond remembered as ‘outstanding’ politician and ‘dear friend’ at funeral

The former Scottish first minister died suddenly after delivering a speech in Macedonia earlier this month.

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Pay for 800,000 freelancers could be hit if employers’ tax rises in Budget, experts say

Chancellor is understood to be considering the move as part of her plans to raise money to bail out Britain’s battered public services

Evening Standard

Budget 2024: Labour Chancellor Rachel Reeves in growing clash with Commons Speaker over major economic news

Ms Reeves announced in Washington that she was changing the Government’s key fiscal rules

Evening Standard

Conservatives call on Government to ‘think again’ on winter fuel payment

Tories gathered in Westminster on Tuesday, ahead of handing in a petition to the Treasury, a day before Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers her Budget.

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Tory MP reprimanded for ‘brazen’ sexual misconduct

Parliamentary watchdog rules that Aaron Bell ‘abused his position of power’ by touching woman in Commons bar

Evening Standard

Ex Tory whip Aaron Bell committed 'serious sexual misconduct' on young woman in Commons bar

Former Newcastle-under-Lyme MP Aaron Bell was reprimanded for ‘brazen and drunken’ sexual misconduct

The National (Scotland)

'Sh***': How one Labour-voting area feels about the new UK Government

“I REGRET voting for them now." That was the response of one Rutherglen resident when asked about their view of the new Labour Government so…

The National (Scotland)

Labour to snatch more than £4000 from 45,000 'vulnerable' Scots, analysis shows

LABOUR’S benefits cuts will snatch as much as £4681 per year from around 45,000 Scots, new analysis has found ...

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