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Universities can act against intimidation, says minister ahead of Bob Vylan gig

The outspoken punk duo are due to perform at a venue on the University of Manchester campus next month.

Evening Standard

Phillipson signals Government will ‘do the right thing’ and lift benefit cap

The Education Secretary said she will be ‘arguing’ the case for the change in Cabinet.

The Independent UK

‘We'll do the right thing’: Cabinet minister signals two-child benefit cap will be scrapped

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson says she’ll be ‘arguing’ the case for the change

Evening Standard

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PM’s national security adviser ‘played no role in collapse of China spy case’

Jonathan Powell did not take part in discussions about the ‘substance or the evidence’ of the case, Bridget Phillipson said.

Evening Standard

Gaza truce ‘massive step forward’ but ‘only start of process’, minister says

Bridget Phillipson warned there is no ‘cast-iron guarantee’ of enduring peace and international efforts must continue.

Evening Standard

Phillipson tells universities to take firm action to protect Jewish students

Some 600 training sessions will be offered to university staff over the coming weeks to help ‘identify harassment and hate’, the Government says.

Evening Standard

Why should you be Labour’s next deputy leader? Guardian readers quiz the candidates

As party members prepare to choose between Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell, the pair give their views on wealth taxes, Brexit, the climate crisis and the far right

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Yvette Cooper defends children as young as 13 needing digital ID – as it happened

Foreign secretary says it is ‘right way forward’ for young teenagers to have digital ID

The Guardian - UK

Phillipson presses Starmer and Reeves to abolish two-child benefit cap in full

Exclusive: education secretary tells the Guardian scrapping limit entirely in November’s budget most cost-effective way to tackle child poverty

The Guardian - UK

Labour deputy leadership candidate say government is in ‘fight of our lives’

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The Independent UK

Phillipson accuses Powell of ‘energising our opponents’ as voting begins

Ballots opened on Wednesday for members and affiliates in the Labour deputy leadership race.

The Independent UK

Labour ‘can’t sugarcoat fact things aren’t going well’, Lucy Powell says

The deputy leadership contender said the party needs to start telling ‘a stronger story’.

Evening Standard

Labour ‘can’t sugarcoat fact things aren’t going well’, deputy leadership candidate says

The deputy leadership contender said the party needs to start telling ‘a stronger story’

The Independent UK

Lucy Powell tells Labour it can’t sugarcoat how badly things are going

Frontrunner for deputy leadership addresses rally as opponent Bridget Phillipson pledges ‘second Labour term our children deserve’

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Palestine protests go ahead across UK on second anniversary of 7 October

March through London and campus sit-ins in Glasgow and Edinburgh proceed despite prime minister’s pleas

Evening Standard

Trainee teachers to get up to £31k tax free to train in Stem subjects

The Department for Education will continue to provide bursaries and scholarships for trainee teachers in certain subjects.

Evening Standard

Neil Kinnock backs Lucy Powell in Labour deputy leadership race

The result of the contest to replace Angela Rayner will be announced on October 25.

Evening Standard

Lucy Powell dismisses ‘ridiculous’ claims she would bring division to Labour

Labour needs to ‘tell a much stronger story’ about the purpose of this Government, the deputy leadership hopeful said.

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The Independent UK

Alan Johnson backs Bridget Phillipson in Labour’s deputy leadership race

He said she would help bring back voters drifting away from Labour.

Reason

Brickbat: Pay for the Privilege

In the United Kingdom, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson is launching a plan to increase the amount private schools pay for… The post Brickbat: Pay for the Privilege appeared first on Reason.com.

Evening Standard

Phillipson says there is ‘real urgency’ to scrapping two-child benefit cap

Campaigners say it pulls more than 100 children across the UK into poverty every day.

The Guardian - UK

Labour members feel disconnected from government, says Lucy Powell

Deputy leadership candidate tells hustings party is not heeding feedback from doorstep, with impact on activists

The Independent UK

Stop trying to ‘out-Reform, Reform’, deputy Labour leadership candidate warns Starmer

In a damning indictment of the government, Lucy Powell said her 21-year-old son had ‘struggled’ with her being part of the Labour government because ‘we’ve not got some of the politics right’

Evening Standard

Powell and Phillipson vie for votes as Labour conference draws to a close

The pair displayed little disagreement during a hustings at the end of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Labour is pleasing no one by trying to ‘out-Reform Reform’, Powell says

The former Commons leader challenged Sir Keir Starmer’s Government to use its position in power to ‘set the terms of the debate’.

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