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Jackie Baillie backs Wes Streeting's NHS private sector plans

SCOTTISH Labour’s deputy leader has suggested the Scottish Government should follow Wes Streeting’s plans for heavier involvement of the private…

The National (Scotland)

To boost the economy, Labour cannot afford to duck these four expensive challenges

Labour has come to power with a mandate for change and big ambitions to grow the economy and rebuild public services. It wants to move swiftly to implement its early pledges while keeping within its self-imposed spending limits.

The Conversation

NHS: six key challenges facing the Labour government

In 1997, Tony Blair’s election “pledge card” included a promise to cut NHS waiting lists, then totalling 1.16 million. Keir Starmer’s “first steps for change” include a similar pledge to cut waiting times, but his task is on a different scale, with 7.5 million people currently awaiting treatment. How did…

The Conversation

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Rachel Reeves pledges to ‘fix foundations’ of UK economy with growth plan

Chancellor will use first speech to declare ‘national mission’ that involves unblocking infrastructure and private investment

The Guardian - UK

‘Nobody can fix the country’: voters in former Blair town sceptical of change

Let down by broken Tory promises of levelling up, some in Newton Aycliffe and across north-east turned to Reform

The Guardian - UK

Much of NHS in England ‘does not take obesity seriously enough’

Only five of England’s 42 integrated care boards have made obesity a top priority, says thinktank

The Guardian - UK

Who are the pro-Gaza independents who unseated Labour MPs?

All four capitalised on dissatisfaction over Labour’s stance on the Gaza war but said they had other priorities too

The Guardian - UK

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Robert Jenrick says Tories lost voters’ trust and fails to rule out leadership bid

Former immigration minister says party failed to deliver, as Suella Braverman and Victoria Atkins also speak out

The Guardian - UK

Totally wired: why are so many young people addicted to video games?

Locked in their bedrooms, playing video games into the small hours, children as young as 10 years old are now addicted to their consoles. Tim Lewis hears how the compulsive games can be impossible to resist – and meets the experts tackling the issue

The Guardian - UK

The Observer view on the new Labour government: a fine start but still a mountain to climb

The prime minister has reminded the country that politics can be a force for good and change people’s lives

The Guardian - UK

Physician associates are heroes, not villains

Doctors like me rely on these unsung stars of the medical profession

The Guardian - UK

Starmer tells his cabinet: now it’s time to deliver on our promises

PM pledges swift action on NHS and prisons, setting out agenda to reform public services and rebuild international relations

The Guardian - UK

Independent Muslim who beat Labour in Leicester says victory was not ‘sectarian’

Shockat Adam says he is not a single-issue MP, but will fight on NHS and housing as well as Gaza

The Guardian - UK

Five key workers on how Labour can fix Britain, from the NHS to prisons

Workers in healthcare, education and justice are battling crumbling systems. They told us what actions they want to see from the new government

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Great Britain? by Torsten Bell – why Labour must move fast and fix things

The influential policy wonk and new MP for Swansea West sets out how the government can show it means business

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting says NHS is broken as he announces pay talks with junior doctors

New health secretary aims to resolve dispute in England and warns health service is ‘not good enough’

The Guardian - UK

Who is in the new Labour cabinet?

With many MPs who served Blair and Brown, Starmer’s team is one of the most experienced in recent times

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting vows to begin negotiation groundwork with junior doctors next week in first act as health chief

‘From today, the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken,’ says new health secretary Wes Streeting

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The Guardian - UK

‘God help us’: mixed feelings as nine seats in Kent go Labour

Some disenfranchised voters submitted a protest vote for Reform fearing immigration wouldn’t be slowed

The Guardian - UK

‘Everything has been so tribal’: Glasgow reflects on Labour’s clean sweep

A switch away from the SNP was for many a tactic to get the Tories out – a desire expressed even by non-voters

The Conversation

The six most urgent problems facing the UK that Starmer’s new government needs to fix

Keir Starmer’s Labour party has won the UK general election in a landslide. Its huge majority should, in theory, give Starmer the clout to see through most of his political agenda. But in reality, the victory celebrations might prove short-lived, given the size of the challenges in front of him.

The Independent UK

General election: Keir Starmer’s first speech as Labour prime minister in full

In his first speech in Downing Street, Sir Keir said the British people had voted ‘decisively for change’

Evening Standard

What can we expect from the new Labour government?

Here are some of the changes Labour is keen on making, from hiring more teachers and police officers to removing the VAT tax benefit for private schools

The Conversation

Keir Starmer: three warnings from history for Labour’s seventh British prime minister

When teaching British political history, I usually stress two points. First, the British Conservative Party have been among the most successful office-seeking parties in electoral history. Second, British Labour struggles mightily to obtain power. Both throw into relief the earth-shattering nature of this landslide win for Keir Starmer’s Labour party.

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Morgan McSweeney: the Labour power list as Sue Gray resigns

As Sue Gray exits, read our ultimate guide to the most influential figures in the Labour government

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