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OPINION - The Standard View: End this epidemic of drink spiking

You cannot lift your arms, or remember how you got home, or what was done to you in the preceding few hours. Having your drink spiked is a horrific experience and a terrible crime — and it is on the rise.

Evening Standard

Labour will not change two-child cap with King's Speech, Angela Rayner says

LABOUR will not remove the two-child benefit cap in the King’s Speech, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has said ...

The National (Scotland)

Pressure mounts on Vaughan Gething as four ministers quit and urge him to stand down

Welsh government appears in meltdown as first minister is told to resign

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How to know if your drink has been spiked

Spiking carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence in the UK

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Vaughan Gething’s leadership in peril as four Welsh ministers resign

Politicians again call on the first minister, who lost confidence vote in June, to leave office

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer government digs in as it faces Labour revolt over two-child benefit limit

Labour MP Kim Johnson is ready to table an amendment to the King’s Speech to ditch the restriction

Evening Standard

Citizens’ assemblies could work wonders for Labour and Britain – but only if they’re more than a talking shop

In France and Ireland, assemblies are laboratories of democracy. They can be here too, if politicians commit to adopting their ideas, says Richard Wilson, CEO of Iswe Foundation

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Vaughan Gething quits as Welsh first minister but hits out at ‘pernicious’ claims of wrongdoing – as it happened

His resignation comes after four Welsh ministers stepped down from their posts in an apparently calculated move to force his hand

The Guardian - UK

Labour wants to build UK trade links with ‘friends in the EU’, business secretary to tell G7

‘Britain is back’ Labour business secretary will tell G7 meeting in Italy

The Independent UK

We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

After years of austerity, the government’s plans imply another reduction in funding that public services simply cannot take

The Guardian - UK

I went to see how the Tories are handling defeat – and found Faragism and a total lack of reflection

Even after election wipeout, the Conservatives are too blinded by ideology to see their voters don’t want a Reform merger, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

‘DUP took us for fools’: few in North Antrim mourn fall of House of Paisley

Ian Paisley Jr blamed for loss of Northern Irish seat held by his family for more than 50 years at the general election

The Guardian - UK

UK ready to build ‘closer, more mature’ trade links with EU

New business secretary set to tell international counterparts at G7 meeting ‘Britain is back on world stage’

The Guardian - UK

Greens demand Keir Starmer bring in wealth tax in King's Speech

KEIR Starmer must use the King’s Speech to introduce a wealth tax on Britain’s richest people, the Scottish Greens have demanded.

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Councils to get more power in ‘devolution revolution’, says Angela Rayner

‘Devolution revolution’ to transfer power out of Westminster

The Guardian - UK

Labour to invite England’s ‘devolution deserts’ to take on more power

Angela Rayner writing to council leaders without devolved responsibilities to offer chance for greater autonomy

The Guardian - UK

Yvette Cooper says ‘disgraceful scenes’ of election candidate abuse must end

Ministers will meet to address what home secretary calls an alarming rise in intimidation of politicians

The National (Scotland)

SNP council group leader in shock resignation – set to join Tory administration

THE leader of an SNP council group has quit the party – and looks set to join the ruling Tory administration as an independent ...

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The Independent UK

New Reform UK MP revealed to have previously been jailed for attacking ex-girlfriend

Party admits it knew James McMurdock was convicted of assault before he was adopted as prospective parliamentary candidate

The Guardian - UK

Even Nigel Farage opposes the two-child cap. Labour must scrap it

Letters: This is an opportunity for Keir Starmer to demonstrate to left-behind voters that he is on their side, writes Bernie Evans. Plus letters from Hazel Davies, David Lindsay, Jan Pahl and Jon Marks

The Guardian - UK

Stuart Weir obituary

Editor of the New Statesman who helped to launch Charter 88, the constitutional reform pressure group

The Guardian - UK

Labour donor Dale Vince has libel case against Daily Mail thrown out

Energy entrepreneur claimed headline about different man used alongside his photograph was defamatory

The Guardian - UK

Forget the football! Eleven days into a Labour government, here are reasons to be hopeful

From climate crisis to the culture wars, this is a moment of genuine change – and a little optimism is finally possible, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

Extent of police infiltration of CND under Thatcher ‘truly shocking’

Public inquiry hears that at least five undercover officers spied on anti-nuclear movement during 1980s

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak urged by top Tories to delay quitting as leader until successor chosen in autumn

The ex-PM has said he would stand down from the helm of the Conservative Party once plans to elect the next leader are in place

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