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GB News fined £100,000 by Ofcom for breaking impartiality rules over Rishi Sunak interview

Ofcom says broadcaster gave Rishi Sunak a ‘mostly uncontested platform’ in February interview

The Independent UK

GB News fined £100,000 by Ofcom after Rishi Sunak Q and A debate

The channel’s chief executive, Angelos Frangopoulos, said the ‘unnecessary, unfair and unlawful’ ruling is being challenged in the courts.

The Independent UK

Esther McVey doubles down on ‘repugnant’ Holocaust smoking ban comparison

The former common sense minister has refused to back down over a Tweet which appeard to compare the smoking ban to the Holocaust

The Independent UK

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Margaret Thatcher portrait will stay on display in No10, minister says after backlash

Sir Keir Starmer is reported to have found one portrait of his Tory predecessor ‘unsettling’ and wanted it to be moved

Evening Standard

Government seeking to make ‘fewer places where you can smoke’ – as it happened

Jacqui Smith says Labour hopes to ‘make it much more likely’ that smokers will want to give up

The Guardian - UK

Tory MP told to ‘get a grip’ for using Holocaust poem to criticise smoking ban

Esther McVey used poem about complicity with the Nazis to criticise Labour’s proposals about smoking in beer gardens

The Guardian - UK

Jewish leaders hit out at Tory MP’s ‘repugnant’ use of Holocaust to criticise smoking ban

Ex-common sense minister defends her ‘analogy’ as she rejects criticism as ‘politically correct bullying’

The Independent UK

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Nigel Farage revealed to be highest paid MP

The Reform UK MP’s register of interests shows he is paid £97,928.40 a month by the broadcaster, for 32 hours of work.

Evening Standard

Let’s Be Honest by Jess Phillips review – manifesto for a better politics speaks plainly but falls flat

The fourth book from the admirable Labour MP is part memoir, part rallying cry – but it feels a bit rushed and too familiar

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage to restart GB News show next week after election win

The Reform UK leader will return to the channel next week and present a show three times a week

The Independent UK

Students going home could put 35 Tory seats at risk in election, analysis says

Higher Education Policy Institute research suggests that holding ballot in summer break may be strategic error

The Guardian - UK

NHS staff will be banned from showing Palestinian flag, says Health Secretary

Cabinet minister says move will help Jewish people feel safer at work

Evening Standard

Minister warned Sunak it was not common sense to have a snap election

Exclusive: Details are emerging of the final cabinet meeting when Rishi Sunak told his top team he had called a snap election

The Independent UK

Starmer takes it step by step in the phoney war that is a general election campaign

With no date in sight, the waiting game drags on. So Labour spells out the message again, and again

The Guardian - UK

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Rishi Sunak REFUSES to apologise for 'comparing Yessers with Putin'

RISHI Sunak called the SNP “a threat to the integrity of the United Kingdom” as he refused to apologise for comparing Yessers with extremists…

The Guardian - UK

Can the civil service survive the chaos and incompetence of Team Sunak? Of course we can: we’re optimists

As this difficult era nears its endgame, we are guided by a belief good governance – and buoyed up by public support, says the secret civil servant

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer averts row with union leaders as Labour reiterates ‘full commitment’ to new deal for working people – as it happened

Both sides issue joint statement expressing ‘full commitment’ to the new deal for working people as agreed in July’ after a meeting this afternoon

Evening Standard

Rainbow lanyards don't bother me, Grant Shapps says after 'common sense minister' urges crackdown

PM’s spokesman denies any rift after Esther McVey equated gay rights with political activism

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The Guardian - UK

Esther McVey planning crackdown on civil service diversity initiatives

So-called minister for common sense says she wants to ban wearing of rainbow lanyards among other measures

The Guardian - UK

GB News’s highest-paid Tory MPs – and how much they have received

What the channel has paid the likes of Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey and what it has got for its money

Evening Standard

Arise Sir Alan Bates? Post Office scandal campaigner should receive knighthood, says Cabinet minister

Esther McVey, who is known as the 'Minister for Common Sense', said he should be given the honour 'as soon as possible'

Evening Standard

Who is Esther McVey? MP returns to represent Tory right at Cabinet table

The MP for Tatton is pledging to back civil servants and look into how public cash is being wasted

The Guardian - UK

Former health minister says Michelle Mone wasn’t honest with him about her PPE Medpro involvement – as it happened

Lord Bethell during Covid posts screengrab he says challenges ex-Tory peer’s claim she told people in government about her links with PPE Medpro

The Independent UK

‘Minister for Common Sense’ to ‘look carefully’ at use of equality and diversity consultants

Esther McVey takes aim at ‘wasteful’ public spending on diversity consultants as she reveals her brief

The Guardian - UK

David Cameron under pressure to reveal where personal fortune is invested

Latest register of ministerial interests revealed foreign secretary’s wealth is managed by a blind trust

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