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The Guardian view on apprenticeships: young people need help getting started at work

Editorial: Existing staff are taking too much of a fund intended for new recruits. Ministers must take charge of redirecting it

The Guardian - UK

Starmer vetoes Tuchel’s call to bunk off school after England’s 1am Mexico game

Education minister Jacqui Smith suggests ‘disco nap’ on Sunday so everyone is fresh as a daisy on Monday

The Guardian - UK

School can wait, let children stay up for England vs Mexico, Tuchel says – but Starmer rejects plea

Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said children should in school on Monday, despite England’s 1am kick-off against Mexico

The Independent UK

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Rochdale grooming gang leader released from prison as No 10 insists he may be deported

It is understood the Home Office is looking at what can be done in this case and will provide an update in due course

The Independent UK

Government exploring ‘every route’ to deport grooming gang ringleader – minister

Shabir Ahmed, 73, known to his victims as Daddy, has served 14 years in jail.

Evening Standard

UK's Starmer reportedly set to quit as Labour rival sworn in as MP

LONDON - Embattled British Prime Minister Keir Starmer could set out plans to step down as soon as Monday, UK media has reported, the same day his likely successor is expected to be sworn in as a member of parliament.

Bangkok Post

Hegseth ‘lacking class’ over D-Day migrant ‘invasion’ comments – Jacqui Smith

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth made comments about Europe’s migration crisis while at a D-Day event.

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Minister says Hegseth ‘lacking in class’ over migration comments at D-Day memorial

The US defence secretary used the event to criticise Europe over an ‘invasion’ of migrants

The Independent UK

UK government caps student loan interest rates at 6% from September

Minister says change for plan 2 and 3 loans in England and Wales will protect borrowers from impact of global conflict

The Guardian - UK

Student loan interest rates to be capped after backlash over repayment costs

Student loan interest rates will be capped from September

The Independent UK

Mandelson arrest latest: Badenoch hits out at Starmer’s ‘deeply flawed’ judgement as ex-Labour peer released on bail

Ex-Labour minister accused of passing sensitive information onto paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein during time as business secretary

The Independent UK

Futile resignations and blatant revisionism to the fore as Starmer staggers on

The same cabinet ministers who failed to speak up for the PM in the morning were soon offering their undying support

The Guardian - UK

Starmer tells Labour MPs he is ‘not prepared to walk away’ after call for him to resign – as it happened

Prime minister addresses parliamentary Labour party amid Mandelson scandal fallout

The Guardian - UK

Fifty higher education providers at risk of exiting market in England, MPs told

Regulator says 24 are at more immediate risk and may have to stop degree courses within next 12 months

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The Guardian - UK

First ‘one in, one out’ deportation flight reportedly takes off without migrants

Group of people who crossed Channel by boat understood not to have been on Air France plane after legal challenge

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer will be ousted as Labour leader unless he 'changes course immediately', MPs warn

Labour MPs are reeling over high-profile sackings and resignations in recent weeks

The Independent UK

Minister fuels claims that Mandelson could be thrown out of Lords

Jacqui Smith said she was ‘angry and disgusted’ by Peter Mandelson’s behaviour, adding that his fate in the Lords would be decided by chief whip Roy Kennedy

The Independent UK

Labour MP: ‘Inevitable’ Starmer will be ousted if 2026 elections are bad

Sir Keir Starmer is under pressure over the handling of Lord Mandelson’s appointment and sacking and Labour’s poor poll ratings.

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The Guardian - UK

Top Starmer aide resigns over explicit Diane Abbott messages in further blow to PM – as it happened

Director of strategy Paul Ovenden quits to avoid becoming ‘distraction’ after details of derogatory emails emerge

Evening Standard

Minister refuses to give ‘details’ as migrant returns to France due to start

Baroness Jacqui Smith said she would not be giving ‘details’ on the number migrants expected to be sent back in the coming days.

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

Voices: No, Kemi Badenoch – housing asylum seekers in tents won’t solve our immigration problem

COMMENT: The leader of the Conservative Party ought to be addressing the issue of how to prevent more small boats from arriving in the UK, instead of talking vaguely of ‘camps’, says John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Over 50,000 small boat migrants cross Channel under Labour as Starmer fails to get a grip on crisis

Labour minister admits the number of small boat crossings under Starmer is ‘unacceptable’

Evening Standard

Channel migrants reaching 50,000 under Labour ‘unacceptable’ – ex-home secretary

Baroness Jacqui Smith of Malvern, now an education minister, said criminal gangs were allowed to become entrenched under the Conservative government.

The Guardian - UK

China-backed centres at UK universities under threat from new free speech laws

Exclusive: Confucius Institutes, partnerships between UK and Chinese universities, funded by the Chinese state, offer Mandarin classes and promote cultural events

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