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Covid Inquiry: What you need to know with first hearings days away amid bitter WhatsApp row

Public hearings into the UK's preparedness for the Covid-19 crisis will begin next week, just days after the inquiry became mired in controversy due to a bitter legal dispute over Boris Johnson's WhatsApp messages

Daily Mirror

Cameron-Osborne austerity years cost UK dearly when Covid struck, says TUC

Union body claims policies left Britain ‘hugely unprepared’, in report before opening hearing of inquiry

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Ashworth signals end to 'heinous' two-child benefit cap if Labour wins power

The Shadow Work and Pensions Secretary said the policy ushered in by austerity Tory ex-Chancellor George Osborne is 'absolutely keeping children in poverty'

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George Osborne destroyed Britain’s safety net. The Covid inquiry should shame him into silence

His iniquitous austerity programme left the population sick, vulnerable, and unprepared for a pandemic, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Two-child limit on UK welfare benefits ‘has failed to push parents into jobs’

Exclusive: Policy misunderstands realities of caring roles and has left hundreds of thousands of families in poverty, study finds

The Guardian - UK

A decade after the Tories demonised disabled people on benefits, it’s happening again

Never mind that the DWP itself found that some disabled people can’t afford food or heating, politicians and the media need scapegoats, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Starmer renews junk food ban pledge but rules out salt and sugar tax

Sir Keir said an advertising ban on junk food for children would cover both social media and TV.

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The price of failure: a moat for Johnson, jobs for Osborne and globetrotting for Truss

This unforgivable trio cost Britain billions but they’ve moved on and we’re expected to forget

The Guardian - UK

The great British baby drought has a simple cause. And it’s not ‘cultural Marxism’

There’s no shortage of people who want more children. But under the Conservatives, parenthood is punished, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

George Osborne to lead £2.4bn investment management firm

Former chancellor adds to roster of jobs with role as chair of Lingotto, owned by Agnelli family’s Exor

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Britain’s industrial strategy: where is it?

Editorial: Without one, the country risks missing out on the opportunities offered by the green transition and new technologies

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine could be ‘warning shot’ for possible energy shortages, says Angus MacNeil

THE war in Ukraine is a “warning shot” for the possibility of a future with energy shortages, the new chair of the Commons Energy Security and…

The National (Scotland)

Ban smoking and tax fruit juice, says George Osborne

Ex-chancellor urges UK PM extend sugar tax and raise legal age for tobacco to curb obesity and cancer

The Guardian - UK

UK should ban smoking and slap taxes on fruit juice says George Osborne

The Tory austerity architect said 'anti-nanny state Conservatives' are 'not worth listening to' as he took aim at Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak for delaying a ban on junk food advertising

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The Guardian view on poverty in Scotland: a contradictory history

Editorial: The number of Scottish people in deep poverty has grown despite thoughtful welfare reforms. More will be needed

The Independent UK

Who could replace Richard Sharp as chair of the BBC?

Muriel Gray and Sir Nicholas Serota are among those who could be in contention.

Daily Mirror

Three million food parcels a year is ‘a bloodstain on our broken economy'

In 2013, no one had heard of Daniel Blake yet. Now the North East, where the 2016 film shone a light on austerity, is a 'hot spot' for food parcels

The Guardian - UK

The real Rish! has been hiding in plain sight – don’t look for Mr Nice Guy within

Sunak and Starmer’s sloganeering made for a truly dismal PMQs that degrades us all

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The Guardian - UK

Oliver Dowden: the new deputy PM who is more hardline than his image

Sunak’s political soulmate portrays himself as a moderate but has been called a warrior against woke and keen Thatcherite

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on child poverty: progress is being reversed

Editorial: Over a million children are living in poverty as a result of Conservative policies. This can’t continue

Daily Mirror

Tories' 'nasty' two-child benefit limit having 'devastating' impact on poorest families

Six years after the controversial policy - one of ex-Chancellor George Osborne's austerity measures - was first rolled out, a Child Poverty Action Group survey shows families struggling to pay food and energy

The Guardian - UK

How Tory royal funding deal gave rise to King Charles’s potential cash windfall

Monarch rejects £250m pay rise resulting from David Cameron’s ‘generous’ shake-up of royal funding

The Independent UK

Tributes continue from Tory grandees following death of Nigel Lawson

Former prime minister Sir John Major said Baron Lawson of Blaby will be ‘long remembered’.

The Guardian - UK

10 years on, what did George Osborne’s Help to Buy scheme really achieve?

Osborne says the scheme, which closes Friday, ‘helped hundreds of thousands of families’, but critics argue it was ‘only a gimmick’

Liverpool Echo

Paul O'Grady's sweary outburst shows exactly how he felt about the Tories

During one of his live shows the legendary TV presenter and performer took aim at austerity measures brought in in 2010

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