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From Send to single-sex spaces: key tests facing Keir Starmer in 2026

Moment of maximum danger will come in May’s local and regional elections and PM is already plotting his comeback

The Guardian - UK · Dec 30, 2025

Market forces, not militancy, are pushing teachers towards strikes

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Warnings of possible industrial action by teachers next year during a worsening pay and retention crisis is about supply and demand and conditions – the government should be paying attention

The Independent UK · Dec 28, 2025

Tuesday briefing: What would a Reform-led country look like?

In today’s newsletter: Local government may offer some answers – after winning 677 council seats, Reform’s triumph quickly gave way to reports of chaos, infighting, and scandal

The Guardian - UK · Dec 23, 2025

£3bn announced to create ‘tens of thousands’ of school places for Send pupils

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the Government will make sure local schools are the right schools for children and young people with Send.

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2025

GCSE and A-Level exams could be set for major shake-up

GCSEs in smaller-entry subjects – and most A-level exams – could be moved onto screens by the end of the decade

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2025

No 10 declines to comment on White House claim that Europe facing ‘civilisational erasure’ – as it happened

US national security strategy takes aim at EU and other bodies over issues including migration, free speech and falling birthrates

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2025

Rules on single-sex spaces pose risk to trans people’s mental health, UK charities say

Fifteen organisations sign letter expressing deep concern over EHRC guidance being considered by ministers

The Guardian - UK · Dec 8, 2025

Labour bars trans women from main women’s conference

The decision means trans women will not be allowed in the main hall

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2025

Labour has completely abandoned women’s rights, former EHRC chief claims

Kishwer Falkner said Labour was traditionally the ‘party of feminism’ but that the current generation of Labour MPs has ‘lost it’

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2025

Labour has a groundbreaking plan for child poverty. Finally, this government has found its mission

The new strategy lays out Britain’s social disgrace in painful detail. But it also offers hope and a clear way forward that is worthy of a leftwing party, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025