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Digested week: late nights, 37 years clean – and a rude narcissist

George Galloway gleefully greeted the press after his byelection win while Jezza rolled the dice and lost

The Guardian - UK

No May Election: Ex-UK PM Joins Tory MPs Quitting Before Vote

Former prime minister Theresa May announced on Friday she will stand down as an MP at the next election, adding to a growing list from the UK's ruling Conservatives to abandon leader Rishi Sunak.

International Business Times

Theresa May: loyal constituency MP who lost Tory support over Brexit

No 10 years were plagued by in-fighting as she tried to deliver Brexit that would placate hard-right and centrist factions

The Guardian - UK

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Ireland Votes To Update Constitution On Women, Family

Ireland began voting in a double referendum Friday on proposals to modernise constitutional references to the make-up of a family and women's "life within the home".

International Business Times

Theresa May to step down as MP at general election

Former PM says she wants to focus on causes close to her heart after 27 years in parliament

The Guardian - UK

Labour says wave of Tory MPs stepping down shows lack of confidence in Rishi Sunak as Theresa May announces exit – as it happened

Anneliese Dodds says Theresa May’s decision to stand down after 27 years is part of trend of Tory MPs who have no confidence in party or leader before next election

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‘Impossible numbers’: where could Jeremy Hunt’s budget cuts fall?

‘Unprotected’ departments face a 13% real-terms cut – although it may never actually be implemented

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Sunak warned unfunded axing of national insurance would harm services

Economists say making the policy an election pledge could cost £40bn, which is badly needed for health, education and elsewhere

The Guardian - UK

A dark pattern runs through British politics: when the powerful lose control, protesters suffer

Casting your opponents as dangerous extremists is the oldest trick in the book, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

How a Conservative budget failed to help women (again)

A single man would gain £346 from tax cuts, compared with £279 for a woman and just £85 for the typical lone mother

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Hunt’s done his best – but his best isn’t nearly good enough

If his family and friends really cared about Jezza’s mental health they would persuade him to quit

The Guardian - UK

Grassroots Tories hit out at budget and say party is ‘burnt toast’

Jeremy Hunt offered ‘nothing for working people’, say Conservative Democratic Organisation members

The Guardian - UK

Labour and Tory-linked thinktanks organise conference to ‘disagree well’

Exclusive: Joint statement before conference on community cohesion warns of danger of US-style culture wars

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Socialism, anti-fascism and anti-abortion on Prevent list of terrorism warning signs

Communism also among ideologies on document as human rights groups say UK scheme has been politicised

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What is national insurance and should it be scrapped?

The chancellor’s 2p cut in workers’ contributions has prompted suggestions the payments could be axed. What would that mean for you and your money?

Evening Standard

OPINION - Jeremy Hunt's Budget sold us the Big Lie of British politics — that we can afford our spending

No one wants Jeremy Hunt to be Chancellor. Labour doesn’t, obviously — the party has its own candidate, albeit with largely the same spending plans and fiscal rules. Rishi Sunak doesn’t — he wants to be his own finance minister. The Tory Right still pines for Truss-onomics, the SNP doesn’t…

Evening Standard

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree selected as Labour candidate for Mid Sussex in general election

The Britpop star will take on the Mid Sussex seat that includes Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath, Hurstpierpoint

The Guardian - UK

Donations to UK political parties nearly doubled to £93m in 2023

Tories and Labour boosted by mega-donors, and fundraising gap between two parties appears to be narrowing

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Evening Standard

'Absolute disgrace': Met Police officer sacked after sharing racist rape fantasy

David Seager has been sacked after sending a white supremacist rape fantasy to a woman he was dating

The Guardian - UK

Income tax likely to go up if national insurance scrapped, Hunt suggests

Labour says chancellor’s ambition to eventually abolish NI would cost £46bn a year, and party questions how move would be paid for

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: Sunak refuses to say how abolition of national insurance would be funded – as it happened

PM says ‘people trust me on these things’ and refuses to be drawn on whether government would forgo entire £46bn raised from measure

Evening Standard

Hunt’s £20 billion Budget shortfall leaves scrapping national insurance for the birds, warns the IFS

Top economist Paul Johnson says both Tories and Labour need to be more transparent about painful choices ahead

The Guardian - UK

Hunt redefines ‘levelling up’ with focus on Cambridge, Canary Wharf and Surrey

Critics say extra funding to key battleground constituencies proves government ‘happy to ignore regional inequality’

The Guardian - UK

Tory levelling up has been a scam. Here are three things Labour can do to make it actually mean something

Keir Starmer’s party should make councils sustainable, bring local transport into public control – and build new universities, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - AU

‘We deserve better’: what the papers say about Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election budget

UK front pages are split in their verdicts, with some calling it ‘desperate’ and others declaring the economy ‘ready for take off!’

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