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Defiant Starmer to take Labour message to country despite calls for him to quit over Mandelson

Downing Street says PM will be ‘out and about’ in the coming week ‘making the case for why [his] government is delivering for working people’

The Independent UK

Mandelson should return US ambassador payoff, minister says

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The Independent UK

Mandelson should hand back US ambassador payout, says cabinet minister

Pressure grows on Keir Starmer as Labour peer reported to have received payment worth three months’ salary when he quit in September

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Mandelson urged to hand back payoff after sacking over Epstein link

Mandelson has been told he should return the payoff or give the money to charity

The Independent UK

Mandelson should hand back payoff after sacking over Epstein link, minister says

Pat McFadden said the disgraced former ambassador to the US should return the money or give it to charity.

Evening Standard

Palestine Action latest: Labour MPs hit out at Starmer’s ‘draconian’ ban after High Court rules it unlawful

The Metropolitan Police said it will no longer arrest protesters despite proscription remaining in place

The Independent UK

Government announces major reforms to UK apprenticeship system

The government wants to speed up the process for young people to take up skilled jobs

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MPs resoundingly vote to scrap two-child benefit cap

It will be further scrutinised by MPs and peers before it can become law, but the Government has said it wants to ditch the two-child limit from April

The Independent UK

Two-child benefit cap closer to being scrapped as MPs vote to ditch policy

The policy currently restricts child tax credit and universal credit to the first two children in most households.

Evening Standard

Major British film studio backs youth employment scheme

As part of his tour of the site, a senior minister was taken into an artificial snowy landscape before being introduced to Darth Vader.

Evening Standard

Voices: Yet another stinging betrayal for the Waspi women

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: In U-turn after U-turn, Labour’s dizzying inconstancy shows a staggering disregard for millions of women who are owed what they have worked for all their lives

The Independent UK

Swinney blasts Labour’s ‘betrayal’ as Waspi women again denied compensation

Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney said it is ‘deeply regrettable’ women who lost out after state pension changes will not be compensated.

Evening Standard

Millions of Waspi women ‘betrayed’ as government refuses to grant compensation over state pension age changes

Labour work and pensions secretary Pat McFadden apologised that women born in the 1950s were not sent individual letters about their state pension changes earlier, but said a flat-rate scheme could have cost £10bn

The Independent UK

Fury as Waspi women denied compensation for second time by Government

Women Against State Pension Inequality accuse the Government of ‘utter contempt’ over their decision

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The Independent UK

Waspi women denied compensation for second time

Pat McFadden said advertising campaigns at the time meant ‘the vast majority of 1950s-born women already knew the state pension age was increasing’.

The Independent UK

Waspi compensation decision from DWP expected imminently

Waspi have long-campaigned for redress for the way state pension changes were communicated

Evening Standard

Waspi compensation decision expected imminently

Work and Pensions Secretary will address the Commons on Thursday with an update on pensions.

Evening Standard

100 MPs back Waspi letter urging Government to ‘reach the right decision’

Angela Madden, chair of Waspi, said it is ‘high time that ministers stopped stalling and started compensating Waspi women’.

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Evening Standard

'Traitors' politics: Minister's warning as Farage teases Labour defection to Reform after Jenrick joins from Tories

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden said Reform UK was a ‘Right-wing project’ despite Nigel Farage’s party attracting a significant number of Labour voters

The Independent UK

Criminals in hospital to lose benefits as Labour closes ‘loophole’

Families of victims of the 2023 Nottingham attacks have welcomed the plans

Evening Standard

Criminals detained in hospitals could lose thousands in benefits under plans

The parents of a Nottingham attack victim said they were ‘delighted’ that the Government is looking into a benefits ban for hospital order convicts.

The Guardian - UK

Farage accused of ‘parroting Kremlin lines’ after remarks on UK troops in Ukraine

Pat McFadden says stance on potential peace deployment casts doubt on Reform leader’s commitment to national security

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves to U-turn on pubs tax raid after fury from industry and MPs

Backbench MPs have expressed concerns over business rates hikes and the withdrawal of a Covid-era tax breaks announced at the budget

Evening Standard

British soldiers sent to Ukraine on peace keeping mission would be 'legitimate combat targets,' says Russia

Cabinet minister Pat McFadden said UK troops deployed to Ukraine would be in a position to fire back if attacked by Vladimir Putin’s army

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch claims forthcoming business rates U-turn for pubs ‘too little, too late’ – as it happened

Conservative leader criticises government’s U-turn but change likely to be welcomed by pub trade

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