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Angela Rayner says welfare cuts vote will go ahead as Labour rebellion grows

Deputy PM says vote will happen next week, despite more than 120 Labour MPs signing amendment to pause cuts

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner defies 120 Labour MPs by refusing to pull showdown Commons vote on benefit cuts

Deputy PM makes pledge amid rumours the government was set to pull the proposed welfare reforms bill amid a major Labour rebellion

Evening Standard

Labour to press ahead with welfare vote amid major rebellion threat

KEIR Starmer and Angela Rayner have confirmed a vote on Labour's welfare bill will go ahead despite more than 100 of the party's MPs opposing…

The National (Scotland)

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UK economic growth downgraded in blow to Rachel Reeves

The Confederation of British Industry said rising costs are set to dampen the government’s growth ambitions

The Independent UK

Government advises against all travel to Israel amid Iran conflict

Earlier on Sunday, Rachel Reeves said that sending more jets to the region ‘does not mean’ the UK is at war.

Evening Standard

Starmer focused on grooming victims not ‘grandstanding’, says Reeves

The Chancellor said that Sir Keir has been looking at ‘actually doing the practical things to ensure that something like this never happens again’.

Evening Standard

More jets does not mean UK ‘at war’ says Reeves, amid Israel-Iran conflict

The two nations continued to exchange fire overnight, as the region braced for a protracted conflict.

Evening Standard

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Ministers to unveil 10-year plan to overhaul UK’s ‘crumbling’ infrastructure

The document will lay out Government plans on prioritised policy areas

The Independent UK

Ministers to unveil 10-year plan to overhaul infrastructure

The document will lay out Government plans on prioritised policy areas.

Evening Standard

Voices: Rachel Reeves sounded like she was fighting for her political life

COMMENT: Delivering her spending review, the chancellor even made her theatrical opposite number look convincing – she needs to rediscover her firebrand energy and win Labour MPs back onside, says John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Reeves unveils record spending plans but experts warn of tax rises ahead

Chancellor announces £39bn boost for social housing, £29bn for NHS and £11bn for defence – and promises to close all asylum hotels as she takes a swipe at Farage and dismisses Tory warnings of a ‘cruel summer’ of tax rises

The Independent UK

Reeves will need ‘Corbynist catalogue’ of tax rises to back up spending – Tories

The Chancellor said the Treasury had ‘already drawn a line under the Tory mismanagement with tax rises last year’.

Evening Standard

How Robert Jenrick skewered Kemi Badenoch’s Tory leadership reboot

NEWS ANALYSIS: Party insiders want to lean into the Tory leader’s forthright personality, and ‘let Kemi be Kemi’ as they try to tackle the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform. Kate Devlin and David Maddox report

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch refuses to kick Liz Truss out of Conservative Party

The Tory leader suggested such a move would be ‘neither here nor there’ for voters’ perception of the party.

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The Independent UK

Even Kemi Badenoch’s closest allies admit she needs to get better - but she may be running out of time

NEWS ANALYSIS: When the best thing the most senior member of a party leader’s team can say about them is that ‘she will get better through time’, then the Tories know they have a serious problem, writes David Maddox

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss hits back at Tory shadow chancellor for mini-budget disavowal

Former PM accuses Mel Stride of being ‘creature of system’ after his formal repudiation of 2022 unfunded tax cuts

The Conversation

Mel Stride promises the Tories won’t repeat the mistakes of Liz Truss – except they already have

It’s a mistake to think that, when it comes to the UK economy, the Conservatives have always been seen by British voters as a safer pair of hands than Labour. But, notwithstanding the damaging austerity imposed on the country by David Cameron’s chancellor, George Osborne, it was, by and large,…

The Guardian - UK

Like a rural bank manager, Sideshow Mel wades into the Tory battle for irrelevance

For some reason, Stride used his first keynote speech as shadow chancellor to discuss the abject failure of his party

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Evening Standard

Badenoch ‘will get better’, says Stride as Tories’ polling woes continue

The shadow chancellor insisted the party has the right person in the top job.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss attacks Tories who ‘kowtowed’ ahead of mini-budget apology

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The Guardian - UK

Tories will never again put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says

Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PM

Evening Standard

‘Bold rewiring’ of economy needed as Tories seek to regain trust, Stride says

In a speech on Thursday, Mel Stride is expected to promise the Conservatives will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss lashes out as Tories apologise for her disastrous mini-budget

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride vowed the Tories would ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford as he warned his party ‘needs to shine the light of truth on what Reform is all about’

The National (Scotland)

Nigel Farage sees route to power in squeezing Labour from the left

NIGEL Farage knows how to craft a moment.

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage blasted for 'fantasy economics' as Reform claims £225billion savings by axing net zero projects

He is calling for the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap and restoring the winter fuel payment to all pensioners

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