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The Latest Breaking News from George Osborne

‘No blank cheques’: Rachel Reeves defends pay deals with unions

Chancellor rebuts Tory accusation she will be a soft touch and hints at tweak to debt rule to allow more borrowing

The Guardian - UK

Barclays becomes first UK bank to lift cap on bonuses

Memo to staff reveals dropping of restriction, allowing payouts worth up to 10 times bankers’ salaries

The Guardian - UK

George Osborne: 'Probably the worst moment in my entire political career'

The former chancellor shares one of his biggest regrets

Evening Standard

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Rachel Reeves is a 'mini-me', says George Osborne

GEORGE Osborne has called Rachel Reeves a “mini-me” over her recent statement to the Commons, where she announced a swathe of cuts to plug a…

The National (Scotland)

The cynical spectre of Osbornomics is haunting the Labour party

Emergency cuts, empty pockets, a ‘maxed-out credit card’: why is Rachel Reeves using the language and logic of austerity, asks Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Did the king just get a pay rise? How the crown estate and the royal family’s income work

The crown estate has just published its accounts for the last year, revealing record profits. This news was accompanied by indignant headlines about a massive pay rise for the royal family.

The Conversation

Benefit cap traps families in crowded, rat-infested homes, report finds

Limit on support for low-income families, introduced in 2013, said to be pushing people deeper into poverty

The Guardian - UK

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Tuesday briefing: What Rachel Reeves’ ‘tough choices’ mean for Britain

In today’s newsletter: The new chancellor announced a series of public spending cuts, blaming the previous government while also looking to their playbook

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’ statement: beyond the Tory black hole

Editorial: The chancellor was right to call out her predecessors’ culpability for a disastrous inheritance. But Labour must be bolder

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves goes back to the future with her public finances statement

The chancellor’s message was: this is going to hurt, but it’s not my fault. Haven’t we heard that somewhere before?

The Guardian - UK

My vote was a plea for Labour to tackle child poverty. Its response? To suspend me

Seven of us voted for a motion to end the two-child benefit cap – not as ‘gesture politics’, but to fight for a cause we believe in, says the MP John McDonnell

The Guardian - UK

By disciplining MPs for voting to pull children out of poverty, Keir Starmer has shown us who he really is

Labour will say this is just a matter of party discipline, but it is a clear demonstration of the government’s priorities, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Mapped: How did my MP vote on the two-child benefit cap?

The Commons rejected an amendment by SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn to scrap the two-child benefit cap

The Independent UK

Time for a new conversation about government spending

City Comment: Chancellors should give themselves as much wiggle room as possible

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The Independent UK

Labour considering scrapping two-child benefit cap

Keir Starmer warned there was ‘no silver bullet’ for child poverty, adding if there was ‘it would have been shot a very long time ago’

The Guardian - UK

A respectful question for Labour: do you have any real change?

The new government has promised things will be different: but when it comes to spending, we seem stuck on old Tory policies

The Guardian - UK

‘Fatal strategic flaws’: first report of UK Covid inquiry pinpoints serious errors of state

Health secretaries failed to amend contingency planning before Covid killed more than 230,000 in UK, report says

The Guardian - UK

UK Covid-19 inquiry: report ‘does not go far enough’ say bereaved families – as it happened

Group says it is ‘relieved’ at many of report’s recommendations but calls for more measures to tackle inequality and improve capacity of public services

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The Guardian - UK

Verdict due on impact of Brexit and austerity on Covid-19 response

David Cameron, George Osborne and Matt Hancock to face criticism about priorities in years running up to pandemic

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer aims to avoid backbench rebellion with child poverty taskforce

PM’s speech failed to specify measures to tackle issue, angering MPs calling to scrap the two-child benefit cap

The Guardian - UK

Why Labour wants to hang the Tory legacy around the Conservatives’ necks for years

The positive messages from Sir Keir Starmer’s team are being accompanied by a doleful drumbeat about the direness of the situation they’ve inherited

The Guardian - UK

Labour will rightly be judged by how it fixes our problems. But never forget who left the UK in such a rotten state

Although Cameron and Osborne have been rebranded as Tory moderates, look back to 2010 and you’ll see how much devastation they truly caused, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

UK sugar tax explained: what is it and has it worked?

New research shows levy has led to a significant drop in the amount of sugar in people’s diets

The Guardian - UK

I’ve spent a lifetime working to level up Britain. Angela Rayner, here is my advice

Labour has a historic opportunity to combat regional inequality. Empowering regional mayors is the place to start, says Michael Heseltine, a former Conservative deputy prime minister

The Guardian - UK

Great for parties, useless for governing: grace-and-favour homes are the spoils of power

The country piles of Dorneywood, Chevening and Chequers that were so fiercely squabbled over by Tory ministers are suddenly up for grabs

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