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Starmer, Blair and Brown among mourners at Prescott funeral

The service for the former deputy prime minister, who died in November aged 86, is being held at Hull Minster.

The Independent UK

Ministers to revise university freedom of speech legislation

Contentious liability clause that could have exposed institutions to being sued by Holocaust deniers is scrapped

The Guardian - UK

Fact check: Home Office memo advised police how to deal with vulnerable children

The Home Office circular did not contain the quote, or sentiments, that online users have attributed to it.

Evening Standard

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England has highest proportion of ‘overqualified’ adults, report finds

The British university system has been accused of ‘overextending itself’

The Independent UK

England has highest proportion of adults ‘overqualified’ for their jobs – report

The OECD study assesses the literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills of adults from 31 countries and economies.

Evening Standard

College staff should have pay ‘matched’ with school teachers – Jacqui Smith

Baroness Jacqui Smith said further education staff felt ‘rightly’ disappointed that they had not got the same pay rise as school teachers.

Evening Standard

Who are the key New Labour figures in Keir Starmer’s government?

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

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Raise tuition fees to ease pressure on English universities, says Peter Mandelson

Labour peer says costs should rise in line with inflation but that universities would still have ‘tough choices’

The Guardian - UK

Outdoor smoking ban likely to encourage people to quit, says minister

Jacqui Smith hits back at critics of plan and claims smoking is ‘biggest nail in coffin of most people’ in Britain

The Guardian - UK

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

Workers in UK could get right to request four-day compressed week

Employees could work longer hours over fewer days under government proposals for flexible working

The Guardian - UK

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

Keir Starmer blasted as he gives expenses scandal MP plum job and peerage

KEIR Starmer has been slammed for appointing a disgraced former Labour politician who claimed expenses for pornography viewed by her husband to his…

The National (Scotland)

Familiar faces but not all from politics: meet the surprise Labour ministers

Keir Starmer made some eye-catching new appointments, including a human rights barrister and a rehabilitation campaigner

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The Independent UK

All the Labour cabinet members who aren’t MPs from Patrick Vallance to James Timpson

The cabinet includes senior ministers from the Tony Blair era, and those given peerages to sit in the House of Lords

The Guardian - UK

Labour planning to replace NHS England chair with party loyalist

Exclusive: Alan Milburn, Jacqui Smith and Sally Morgan would be contenders to take over from Richard Meddings

The Independent UK

Iain Dale drops out of Tunbridge Wells election race after 3 days as embarrassing LBC radio clip resurfaces

LBC presenter Iain Dale has quit the election race just 48 hours after announcing he would stand as a Tory MP

The Guardian - UK

Housing asylum seekers on barge ‘untenable’ after legionella discovery, says charity – as it happened

Asylum seekers removed from Bibby Stockholm after legionella bacteria found in water system onboard

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Daily Mirror

Good Morning Britain star rushed to hospital for an operation after scary accident

The Good Morning Britain regular was rushed to hospital following the incident on the London Underground

Daily Mirror

Jacqui Smith’s ex-husband told her she was 'very good at sex' as their marriage crumbled

Former Home Secretary turned to dating apps after the breakdown of her marriage to love-cheat Richard Timney - but she was initially petrified at the thought of intimacy with another man

Daily Record

ITV's Good Morning Britain slammed for Harry and Meghan South Park debate as things get tense

The skit was discussed on GMB today as Ed Balls and Ranvir Singh welcomed the panel made up of Jacqui Smith, Iain Dale and Jack Royston.

Manchester Evening News

ITV Good Morning Britain under fire for Harry and Meghan South Park debate as viewers think show has 'forgotten'

Ed Balls even said he 'didn't care' as he was mocked by co-host Ranvir Singh

Daily Mirror

GMB star fumes he 'doesn’t care' about Meghan and Harry as he’s reprimanded by co-host

GMB hosts Ed Balls and Ranvir Singh discussed South Park's thinly veiled mocking of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry in a new episode about the 'Prince of Canada and his wife' on Friday's show

Daily Mirror

Ben Shephard breaks silence on rumours Matt Hancock will host GMB after quitting politics

Ben Shephard commented on the claims that the former Health Secretary could soon be helming the panel with co-host Kate Garraway as they seemed to quash the rumours

Manchester Evening News

ITV Good Morning Britain viewers demand apology as Ben Shephard snaps and tells Kate Garraway to 'be quiet'

A discussion appeared to get heated on the ITV news programme

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