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The Conservatives have seized on cars as a political wedge – it's a bet on public turning against climate action

“Talking about freedom, sat in Margaret Thatcher’s old Rover” read the UK prime minister’s tweet in July 2023. Earlier that day in an interview with The Telegraph newspaper, Rishi Sunak had declared that the Conservative Party he leads are “on the side of motorists”, and he spent the days after…

The Conversation

Poverty in Britain is firmly linked to the country’s mountain of private wealth – Labour must address this growing inequality

Labour’s shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that a Labour government would not raises taxes on wealth, capital gains or higher incomes. She does not, she says, see “the way to prosperity as being through taxation.”

The Conversation

‘Stiff walks and parlour games’: Sunak becomes latest PM to visit Balmoral

Welly boots were a must during stays with the queen, but King Charles may take a new approach

The Guardian - UK

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Harold Briley obituary

BBC Latin America correspondent who was the first to break the news that the Falkland Islands had been invaded in 1982

The Guardian - UK

Boys with toys: A history of UK’s defence secretaries and their photo opportunities

Gavin Williamson, John Reid, Geoff Hoon and Liam Fox were all unalbe to resist the lure of a military photo op

The Independent UK

The natural party of government? After five PMs in seven years, the Conservatives seem all at sea

The Tories always had a capacity for shapeshifting, but now something has gone wrong. Have they just run out of ideas, asks author Geoffrey Wheatcroft

The Guardian - UK

Queen Elizabeth’s washing up habit has blown our minds and she didn’t want a former Prime Minister changing it!

Queen Elizabeth's washing up habit might surprise many fans and she apparently had a great response to a PM trying to switch things up

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Julian Haviland obituary

ITN’s political editor during the 1970s who was the first journalist to interview Margaret Thatcher as Conservative party leader

The Guardian - UK

How Queen Elizabeth reacted to police charge on miners at 1984 Battle of Orgreave

The monarch watched closely, according to a late political editor

The Independent UK

Politicians can always be voted out. And so could Brexit

The Tories, and even Labour, tell us that ‘the country made a decision in 2016’. Yes it did, and now it repents of that choice

The Guardian - UK

British prime ministers on holiday - in pictures

Rishi Sunak is back at his desk after a summer holiday in sunny California, visiting Disneyland and spending time on the beach.

The Week

'Slander': Alba advert attacking 'vampire' Rishi Sunak rejected by media giant

ALBA’S advert lampooning Rishi Sunak as a vampire who has glutted on Scotland’s oil has been rejected by a media giant due to “slandering”…

The National (Scotland)

Senior Alba figure in clash with Tory MSP over Rishi Sunak oil leaflets

A SENIOR Alba Party figure has clashed with Tory MSP Murdo Fraser over leaflets taking aim at Rishi Sunak.

The National (Scotland)

Michael Williams obituary

Other lives: Labour housing councillor for almost 20 years who championed tenants in the London borough of Wandsworth

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Rishi Sunak’s green backtracking contrasts strongly with previous prime ministers’ efforts

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak appears to be wavering on “net zero by 2050” that Theresa May successfully passed through parliament with barely a cough of disapproval in 2019.

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Thatcher’s only successful policy – and its unintended consequences

Letters: Readers recall the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, introduced in 1983, which allowed them to pursue personal and creative projects

Evening Standard

OPINION - Drill, baby, drill: Rishi Sunak junks the Tory green brand

I’m afraid I have what might be shocking news – Ken Clarke is quite right-wing. He may hold heterodox views on Europe (a conviction that cost him the party leadership on multiple occasions), but Clarke’s reputation as a Tory ‘wet’ belies both his record and his admiration for Margaret Thatcher.

The National (Scotland)

Mockery as Rishi Sunak boasts of being 'in Margaret Thatcher's old Rover'

THE Prime Minister is pretty stuck for ideas ...

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The Guardian - UK

Tough times have created nostalgia for 1980s and 1990s Britain, says TV writer

Creator of new BBC show The Power of Parker says young audiences are drawn to the idea of ‘a simpler time’

The Guardian - UK

From Thatcher to Sunak – toxic divide and rule has always been the Tory weapon of choice

Consider the aliens bill of 1904 and then Theresa May’s claims about a migrant’s cat, and you see a long, ignoble tradition, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

‘Everyone wanted to get one over on Thatcher’ – the artists who raided the Enterprise Allowance Scheme

Forty years ago, the Tories launched a scheme to foster entrepreneurs – but artists from Jarvis Cocker to Rachel Whiteread saw another way to use it. So did a government seen as hostile to the arts kickstart Britpop and the YBAs?

The Guardian - UK

Eve Arnold: To Know About Women review – legends tired, hungover and flashing their rears

From neo-Nazis at a Malcolm X rally to Queen Elizabeth in the rain, the retrospective shows that Arnold captured some of the 20th century’s most significant images

The Guardian - UK

‘Get rid of all the green crap’: Tory PMs’ strange attitude to the environment

As both Labour and Conservatives ponder their green policies, we look back at the Tories’ propensity to promise much – and deliver little

The Independent UK

Revealed: Ukraine’s chilling warning to Tony Blair about Putin two decades before invasion

Official files shine light on former PM’s aims and fears – and surprising correspondences – while in No 10

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Thatcher praised Tony Blair for supporting US after 9/11, files reveal

‘I greatly admire the resolve you are showing,’ former PM said in handwritten note released to National Archives

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