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Kemi Badenoch sparks Tory leadership row after ‘excessive’ maternity pay remarks

Tory leadership contender has caused consternation at the party conference after claiming the government was doing ‘too much’ on statutory maternity pay, before backtracking

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer tightens rules on gifts and donations after Rosie Duffield’s ‘avarice’ accusation

Senior cabinet minister announces ‘end of Tory loophole’ after maverick MP Rosie Duffield quit Labour and accused the PM of presiding over ‘sleaze, nepotism and apparent avarice’

The Independent UK

Jenrick and Tugendhat call for Tories to cut leadership contest short

Contest ends on 2 November, meaning Rishi Sunak would respond to the budget then step down three days later

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Maternity pay is ‘excessive’, says Tory leadership hopeful Kemi Badenoch

Shadow communities secretary calls for ‘more personal responsibility’ and to let businesses make more decisions

The Guardian - UK

Tory leadership race: James Cleverly can 'speak to all Londoners,' says ex-London minister Paul Scully

Lewisham-born Cleverly was a member of the Greater London Assembly

Evening Standard

Brexit, Farage, Corbyn all sparked passion – but there’s no sign of that at either party conference

In Liverpool and Birmingham party machines whir on, while blood-stirring debate is absent from the agenda, says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Statutory maternity pay is ‘excessive’, says Badenoch

Conservative leadership contender Kemi Badenoch said the regulatory burden needed to be lowered and people should exercise ‘personal responsibility’.

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'Scotland is fed up' with Keir Starmer as approval ratings tank to lowest ever

THE SNP have said that "Scotland is already fed up” with Keir Starmer after a new poll showed plunging approval ratings for the Labour…

The National (Scotland)

Tories only have themselves to blame for terrible election defeat, warns Ben Houchen

Exclusive: Ben Houchen, Britain’s only senior Tory left in power, says his party can turn things around in five years but should have listened to Rishi Sunak to avoid calamity

The Independent UK

Government to close ‘Tory loophole’ around declaring interests and gifts

Pat McFadden says ‘unfair’ system has meant ministers face less scrutiny than shadow ministers and other MPs

The Guardian - UK

Rosie Duffield’s resignation letter is a warning Keir Starmer cannot ignore

News analysis: Attention-seeking maverick Rosie Duffield has a long history as a critic of Keir Starmer, but her resignation letter says out loud what many Labour MPs are privately thinking

The Independent UK

Labour’s economic success lies in reshaping a doom-laden Treasury mindset

Neither an Osborne-style handbrake or a Truss-style brick on the accelerator will do. Success depends on changing fiscal culture

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer has a problem with women, says MP who has quit Labour

Rosie Duffield says government focused on ‘greed and power’ and the ‘lads are in charge’, day after leaving party

The Guardian - UK

Tories must change quickly or ‘die’, Welsh leader warns after election wipeout

Andrew RT Davies will address the Conservative conference in Birmingham on Sunday.

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The Guardian - UK

Bringing an end to child poverty really ought to be an economic no-brainer

Growing up poor blights children’s lives, and results in lower work and health outcomes that cost the exchequer long term

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch faces backlash after comments on ‘excessive’ maternity pay – as it happened

Conservative leadership contenders Jenrick, Cleverly and Tugendhat reject rival’s comments, while Rosie Duffield criticises Keir Starmer

Evening Standard

MP Rosie Duffield says Labour supporters are being ‘taken for granted’

Ms Duffield told the BBC the party was ‘in my heart and in my soul’, but she has lost her ‘faith’ in the leadership.

The Guardian - UK

Can liberal conservatism survive the remaking of the right? We’ll soon find out

The struggle between liberalism and reactionary strands of thought has gnawed away at the Tories since the party’s dawn

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The Guardian - UK

Winter fuel cut savings will be far less than Reeves expected, new analysis finds

A surge in claims for pension credit will make thousands more people eligible for the payments and other benefits

The Guardian - UK

Cabinet ministers call for Jonathan Ashworth role at 10 Downing Street after weeks of infighting

Senior party figures want the former Leicester MP to be given key post after party squanders electoral honeymoon over rivalry and free gifts row

The Guardian - UK

It’s all doom, gloom and fiscal fixation. Is this really a Labour government?

The renewal Britain desperately needs requires borrowing and optimism. Isn’t that what we voted for?

The National (Scotland)

Christine Grahame: I've never wanted to be a minister, I like freedom

HAVING been a member of the SNP since 1970, freedom – or the quest for it – has defined much of Christine Grahame’s political life.

The National (Scotland)

Expert weighs in on controversial indyref2 report from Kezia Dugdale and Stephen Noon

NEW proposals to require the UK Government to hold indyref2 could call time on “constitutional ping-pong” between Unionists and the independence…

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Labour peer insists party getting 'no favours' in property deal with son

A SCOTTISH Labour peer has insisted the party are receiving “no favours” as they close in on a deal to rent offices owned by his son as the…

The National (Scotland)

Does Keir Starmer’s Labour Party realise how unpopular it is becoming?

I FELT I was inhabiting a sort of alternate reality at the Labour Party conference last week.

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