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Labour must ‘shut down legacy state’ in drive for digital ID, says minister

Darren Jones told Cabinet colleagues on Tuesday that digital ID would make people’s experience of a new state ‘fundamentally much better’.

Evening Standard

Hermer and Jones summoned to public hearing on China spy case collapse

The Attorney General and Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister have been asked to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry next Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

The Guardian - UK

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Starmer accused of pushing out some of last progressive allies in No 10 shake-up

Exclusive: PM reorganising key parts of government to give chief secretary Darren Jones more Whitehall control

The Guardian - UK

Britain should embrace voluntary ID cards, Keir Starmer suggests

Prime minister to hold meetings on the use of digital ID cards on two-day trade trip to India, where they have already been adopted

The Independent UK

UK and Scottish ministers must do ‘much more’ to work together, says Jones

Chief Secretary to the Prime Minister was speaking to Scotland’s Global Investment Summit in Edinburgh on Tuesday.

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves gets a warm reception but business chiefs are wary of another tax raid

Questions grow over how chancellor will raise cash in the autumn budget to meet her fiscal rules

The Guardian - UK

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Nigel Farage a ‘snake oil salesman’ comparable to Andrew Tate, says No 10 chief secretary

Ministers signal Labour will take stronger approach to attacking Reform rather than just ‘respond to crazy things they’re saying’

The Guardian - UK

Labour can pull this round, PM says of polling fortunes as conference starts

It is the fight of our times and we’ve all got to be in it together, Sir Keir said during an interview published as he arrived at Labour conference.

Evening Standard

Labour can pull this round with ‘fight of our times’, says Starmer as party conference starts

It came as fresh polling showed Sir Keir Starmer is the least popular prime minister on record

The Independent UK

Starmer prepares to take on ‘toxic’ Reform as he arrives in Liverpool for Labour conference

The prime minister said Reform UK’s policies would tear the country apart as he vowed Labour would offer an alternative vision of ‘national renewal’

The Independent UK

Labour focuses on threat posed by Farage as Starmer prepares for conference

Sir Keir Starmer said Reform UK’s policies would tear the country apart as he vowed Labour would offer an alternative vision of ‘national renewal’.

Evening Standard

Starmer brands Reform UK an ‘enemy’ of Britain ahead of Labour conference

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has meanwhile said she wants to sign an ‘ambitious’ new youth migration scheme with the EU.

Evening Standard

Starmer brands Reform UK ‘an enemy’ as he travels to Labour conference

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has meanwhile said she wants to sign an ‘ambitious’ new youth migration scheme with the EU.

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Evening Standard

Digital ID could form ‘bedrock of modern state’, says senior Starmer aide

Darren Jones, chief secretary to the Prime Minister, said the proposal could lead to ‘exciting’ public service reform.

The Conversation

Starmer’s Downing Street reshuffle: why he’s brought in Darren Jones for ‘phase two’ of his government

Prime Minister Keir Starmer was forced to make changes to his top team by Angela Rayner’s resignation amid a stamp duty scandal, but has ended up using the opportunity to implement a major reshuffle at No 10 too. Key roles have been handed out to ministers on Labour’s right flank,…

Evening Standard

Who could be the next Prime Minister? Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting among bookies' favourites

Should Sir Keir Starmer’s premiership topple, Streeting and Burnham are just two of the names being thrown in the hat to proceed him

The Guardian - UK

Starmer tightens grip on economic policy by strengthening autumn ‘budget board’

Key figures from No 10 and No 11 appointed to group include Torsten Bell, new economic adviser Minouche Shafik and comms chief Tim Allan

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The Guardian - UK

Crisis? What crisis? Starmer has a delivery plan – so chill out

The prime minister’s new chief secretary has been out and about trying to calm the storm after Angela Rayner’s exit

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer hands loyal Scottish Labour MPs top Government jobs – see full list

A HOST of Scottish Labour loyalists – including a former Better Together chief and the wife of Keir Starmer’s top strategist – have been given…

The Independent UK

UK politics live: Starmer completes reshuffle as new home secretary faces small boat Channel crossings crisis

A government source said ‘nothing is off the table’ for the new home secretary Shabana Mahmood

Evening Standard

Starmer ‘focused on delivery’ after post-Rayner purge

The Prime Minister is seeking to draw a line under the damaging fallout from his former deputy’s breach of the ministerial code.

Evening Standard

PM ‘to move asylum seekers into barracks’ after Home Office shake-up

Dozens of asylum hotels are expected to close after they became the focal point of demonstrations over the summer.

The Independent UK

Home Office looking at barracks to house asylum seekers under Mahmood

Dozens of asylum hotels are expected to close after they became the focal point of demonstrations over the summer

The Guardian - UK

Reshuffle of junior ministers raises fears over future of Labour’s workers’ rights bill

Some believe fight is looming over sweeping reforms after employment rights minister Justin Madders sacked and union allies sidelined

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