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The Latest Breaking News on UK Politics

How should Keir Starmer take on 2024? By looking back a century to Labour’s first government

Ramsay MacDonald’s short-lived victory holds three key lessons, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Labour Rush To Find Alternative Asylum Plan Before Rwanda Flights Take Off

While Rishi Sunak continues to push his emergency Rwanda Treaty, Keir Starmer is considering processing asylum applications from overseas.

International Business Times UK

How a spring UK budget could fire the starting gun for an early election

UK economic prospects are bleak but an agenda-setting fiscal event such as sweeping tax cuts in March offers another roll of the dice

The Guardian - UK

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Labour, dig in and fight for your green pledges

Letters: David Curtis, Neil Blackshaw and John Filby encourage Keir Starmer to hold fast, while David Reed suggests change won’t happen without cross-party agreement

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak ‘considering scrapping inheritance tax’ ahead of general election

Prime minister has reportedly ordered a ‘gear change’ on tax as his party flounders in the polls

The Independent UK

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announces date of UK's next Budget

CHANCELLOR Jeremy Hunt has announced the UK Government’s Spring Budget will be set out on March 6, in what could be the Tories’ final pitch to…

The National (Scotland)

Reports of scrapping inheritance tax in budget ‘just speculation’, says No 10

Ministers looking for election boost for Rishi Sunak said to be thinking of tax cut along with help for first-time buyers

The Guardian - UK

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Conservatives float tax cuts and help for first-time buyers to turn around dire polling

Longer term fixed mortgage deals and inheritance tax cuts among attention-grabbing pledges reported to be under consideration

Evening Standard

Marcia Williams: The Life and Times of Baroness Falkender by Linda McDougall review – notes on a scandal

A much-needed retelling of the extraordinary story of Harold Wilson’s right-hand woman

The Guardian - UK

David Trimble was ‘extraordinarily rude’ to Tony Blair at Good Friday talks

Newly released 1999 briefing by Irish civil servant reveals lack of trust during tense peace negotiations

The Guardian - UK

Tories to promise help for first-time buyers in effort to lure voters, say reports

Conservatives also reportedly planning to cut inheritance tax in three months’ time, as party struggles badly in polls

The Guardian - UK

More than 200,000 shoplifting cases ‘unsolved’ in past year

Lib Dems accuse government of ‘totally failing to tackle a growing crime epidemic’

The Independent UK

End government by WhatsApp, urges former GCHQ head

Sir David Omand tells parliamentary inquiry the platform should be restricted to ‘background mood music’

The Guardian - UK

Labour urged not to crack down on hunting laws amid Boxing Day parades

It comes as tens of thousands of people gathered for Boxing Day hunt parades

Evening Standard

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Let’s change parliament so it represents us better

Letters: Natalie Bennett and Sarah Palmer respond to Martin Kettle’s article about dysfunctional British politics

The National (Scotland)

Sinn Fein victory in Irish election could lead to unification poll, says party leader

HOLDING a referendum on Irish unification could be possible under a Sinn Fein government if they win the next election, party leader Mary Lou…

The National (Scotland)

John Curtice: Tories ‘fighting on two fronts’ as Rishi Sunak fails to reverse damage

RISHI Sunak has been unable to reverse the damage to the Tories caused by Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, according to polling expert John Curtice.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer tells Labour frontbench to ready policies for spring election

Exclusive: Labour leader wants to finalise manifesto in February and move to campaign footing in anticipation of May vote

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Labour 'considering offshore asylum processing plans' as Rwanda alternative

LABOUR are reportedly considering plans to have asylum claims processed abroad as an alternative to the Tories’ Rwanda plan.

The Guardian - UK

Labour to crack down on ‘dodgy’ candy stores in push to revive high streets

Party says American-style sweetshops – some under investigation for tax evasion – are ripping off public

The Independent UK

Labour considering Rwanda alternative for migrant plan

A Labour ‘red line’ would be any scheme that would automatically block migrants being granted asylum in the UK, with British officials also required to be in charge of processing claims

The Independent UK

Chief prisons inspector: Overcrowding is a ticking time bomb

Exclusive: Last-ditch government plans to free up cells not enough to prevent overcrowding problem from ‘blowing up’, prisons watchdog warns

The Guardian - UK

Rwanda bill will ‘get the job done’ and stop small boat crossings, says David Cameron

Foreign secretary also said Iran was a ‘thoroughly malign’ geopolitical influence

The Guardian - UK

Reform UK leader gives ‘guarantee’ that it won’t step aside for Tories at election

Richard Tice assures senior members of his party in writing that he will not revive Brexit party’s 2019 deal with Conservatives

Evening Standard

Christmas offers the ‘promise of a better world’, Sunak says

The Prime Minister said Christmas was a time of peace, joy and compassion.

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