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Members vote in favour of 'collective leadership' option, with a ‘lay’ chair – who cannot be an MP

Both the Conservative party and the SNP have written to the Financial Conduct Authority asking for an investigation into The Chancellor’s comments

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IN FOCUS: Rachel Reeves’ Budget week from hell has just got worse, as her own uncle Terry has publicly criticised her policies. But she’s far from the only public figure with an embarrassingly vocal family member, as Katie Rosseinsky discovers

The Chancellor she had made choices to increase taxes and improve public infrastructure, and had ‘chosen to protect public spending’.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claimed the Chancellor ‘lied to the public’ and was ‘bribing Labour MPs to save her own skin’

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The six-month qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal is a step in the right direction, which should have been taken long ago – but this dangerous habit of breaking manifesto pledges is compounding a crisis of trust in politics

Members of the fledgling party will be able to vote between the four options

Disruption from the IT transition led to ‘inconsistent availability levels across stores and particularly online’, the supermarket chain said.