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A survey by More In Common and the UCL Policy Lab suggested 63% of the public thought the PM did not respect people like them.

In year since Reform party leader was elected at eighth attempt he has been largely absent from Commons votes and very present in the media

Kemi Badenoch will pledge that the Tories are ‘now the only party committed to serious welfare reform’.

The Tory leader should have supported Labour’s welfare bill – but such responsible behaviour would have defied the norms of British politics, writes Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The weekly session in which the British prime minister is questioned by lawmakers in Parliament can be an ordeal for the government leader

COMMENT: Neither her party nor the public seems to like the Badenoch style, writes Sean O’Grady. Her tasteless lack of empathy for the chancellor is indicative of a leadership marked by arrogant dismissiveness

The Prime Minister said he spoke to Ms Reeves on Wednesday evening and she is ‘fine’

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Labour’s overhaul of the benefits system failed because it was clearly a raid by the Treasury looking for savings at speed. The government should produce a Beveridge report for the 21st century – or risk a future, right-wing government taking up the challenge

Chaotic PMQs sees chancellor upset – reportedly after clash with speaker – as PM fields questions over black hole left by U-turn

Even Kemi Badenoch was able to land punches after prime minister failed to guarantee Rachel Reeves’s position

COMMENT: Her filleting of Starmer and Reeves in the Commons is arguably her biggest success since becoming opposition leader. It could silence complaints by her Conservative critics that she lacks the ruthless skills needed to become prime minister, writes Simon Walters.