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Labour MP suggests he would give up seat for Andy Burnham Commons return

The Greater Manchester mayor would need to become an MP to launch a leadership bid.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer refuses to rule out income tax thresholds freeze at Budget

The Prime Minister dodged questions about the Chancellor’s plans at PMQs

Evening Standard

Starmer refuses to rule out freeze on income tax thresholds ahead of Budget

The Prime Minister declined to answer numerous questions from Kemi Badenoch on the issue.

Evening Standard

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Budget 2025: Which tax rises could hit you as Chancellor Rachel Reeves targets millions with new levies?

London and the South East are set to be most impact by a wave of tax changes to plug a shortfall of around £20 billion

Evening Standard

Tory crisis in London as second councillor defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at flagship town hall

Alan Mendoza on Wednesday joined Laila Cunningham as Reform’s second representative on Westminster Council

Evening Standard

'Mansion tax' on way, say Labour MPs after talk with Reeves on Budget set to hit London hard

The Chancellor reportedly told Labour MPs to highlight how the wealthy would be impacted by her Budget

Evening Standard

Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale

The tactics that gave Labour its huge majority in 2024 were no preparation for government – and the prime minister has proved he has nothing more to offer, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

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NHS failing to cut waiting times as promised in recovery plan, report warns

Public accounts committee finds Labour’s progress ‘appears to have stalled’ despite billions of pounds in investment

The Guardian - UK

Swinney warns Starmer and Reeves of ‘risks’ if Budget fails to end austerity

Scottish First Minister John Swinney said the ending of austerity was what people are ‘desperately seeking’.

Evening Standard

Lack of planning has hit Labour’s efforts to fix public services, says thinktank

Keir Starmer accused of failing to adequately strategise while in opposition, leading to uncoordinated policymaking

The Guardian - UK

‘Out of touch’ hereditary peers criticised for voting against workers’ rights

Lords look ‘undemocratic and firmly against interest of working people’, say senior trade union and Labour figures

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Ley tries to keep above fray amid Liberal infighting

Current and former Liberals are locked in an extraordinary spat amid accusations some party members are undermining Opposition Leader Sussan Ley

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Shabana Mahmood is showing much-needed leadership on the migration issue

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: There may be doubts about some of the home secretary’s sweeping changes to the UK asylum system, but her courage is unmistakeable

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Tories and Reform spout imaginary numbers as they fight for attention

Back-of-an envelope calculations by Kemi Badenoch, Mel Stride and Nigel Farage are nothing but political fever dreams

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Peter Mandelson faces £300 fine after urinating in Notting Hill street

Kensington and Chelsea council confirmed it was investigating after the Labour peer admitted urinating against a garden wall

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A question to the few remaining Labour supporters: is this refugee-bashing what you voted for?

The government’s callousness has won it respect – from Tommy Robinson and the hard right, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Evening Standard

Jess Phillips: ‘Schools get asked to do too much’

Speaking at the Girls’ School Association Conference, the minister for violence against women and girls said teachers should ‘whinge more’.

The Guardian - UK

Starmer pleads for government to unite in fightback after difficult week

Prime minister tells cabinet budget leaks and infighting are distracting from priorities and delivering change

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Voices: From New Labour to Blue Labour – is Shabana Mahmood now the true heir to Blair?

COMMENT: The home secretary’s swashbuckling performance in parliament won rave reviews from supporters of the former prime minister, writes John Rentoul

Evening Standard

Labour Traitors War: Keir Starmer warns Cabinet against 'distraction' of party infighting after coup frenzy

The Prime Minister stressed to his senior ministers that they must ‘work as one team’

The Guardian - UK

Is Shabana Mahmood’s plan to seize the jewels of asylum seekers a joke?

The home secretary’s idea makes her sound so much like a cartoon villain that I initially assumed it couldn’t be true, writes Zoe Williams

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets councillor Sabina Khan to quit after campaigning to become Bangladesh MP

Residents had called for Ms Khan to resign after she began campaigning to become a Bangladesh National Party (BNP) candidate

Evening Standard

Every Labour MP elected on pledge to secure borders, Reed says amid backlash

Some Labour figures have publicly condemned plans to overhaul the asylum system.

Evening Standard

Reed: Voters not going to give PM benefit of the doubt until they feel change

It came after Sir Keir Starmer used a newspaper interview to defend his premiership.

The Guardian - UK

Chinese spying amounts to interference in UK democracy, minister says, after MI5 warns MPs – as it happened

Dan Jarvis, the security minister, says China is trying to contact MPs and peers to get sensitive information about parliament

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