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Labour cronyism row escalates as Tories demand investigation into donor’s appointment to Treasury

Laura Trott urges the prime minister’s ethics adviser to open an investigation

The Independent UK

Labour donor quits Treasury role amid ‘cronyism’ claims

Ian Corfield resigns as official to Rachel Reeves as ministers deny giving preferential treatment to funders

The Guardian - UK

Britain could be a sci-tech superpower – if the Treasury stopped holding it back

The UK has the research base, the startups, the venture capitalists, but its presence in the global market is pitiful. The chancellor must step in

The Guardian - UK

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Highlanders face more difficult winter under Labour than Tories, SNP MP warns

PEOPLE in the Highlands face a more difficult winter this year than last, an SNP MP has warned ...

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer warns of tough times ahead to fix ‘Tory ruins’

Labour leader tells working people rot left by Conservatives is so much worse than imagined and improvement won’t happen overnight

The Guardian - UK

Unite calls for 1% wealth tax on super-rich to fund UK public sector pay rises

The demand from Britain’s second biggest union will test truce with Labour at next month’s TUC conference

The Guardian - UK

Jim Callaghan’s tight fist was his undoing – as it could be for Rachel Reeves

There are many parallels between the situation facing Labour’s 1960s chancellor and today’s. But will Reeves grasp the higher borrowing nettle?

The Guardian - UK

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‘A bad winter would finish me off’: The pensioners facing fuel poverty

One man is required to keep his bungalow at 22 degrees due to his chronic illness

The Independent UK

Martin Lewis urges Labour to ‘rethink’ Winter Fuel Payment changes for pensioners

The MSE founder says he is due to meet with Rachel Reeves ahead of her October budget

The Independent UK

‘Disaster’: Labour urged to U-turn on scrapping universal winter fuel payment after energy price cap jumps

The prime minister has been warned the double hit will lead to disaster for many pensioners

The Independent UK

Four times Labour promised to bring down energy bills

LABOUR have come under fire for explaining away an upcoming rise in energy prices because the UK does not have control of its own power.

The National (Scotland)

The problem with Rachel Reeves’ plan to boost Britain’s pension pots

Britain has a pension problem. Despite having one of the biggest and most sophisticated financial centres of the world in London, the country’s pension industry does not fall into the same category.

The Conversation

Martin Lewis calls for rethink of plan to limit winter fuel payments

Consumer champion urges UK government to expand criteria under which pensioners will still get support

The Guardian - UK

Metropolitan police end probe into election gambling scandal with no charges made – as it happened

Force ends investigation into bets on 4 July election date and says bar to prove misconduct in public office has not been met

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The Guardian - UK

Average annual energy bill to rise by 10% to £1,717 in Great Britain from October

Campaigners fear increase by £149 in energy price cap by Ofgem will put more pressure on households

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: Five key takeaways as Harris closes the Democratic national convention

In today’s newsletter: The presidential nominee’s big speech, no speaking slot for a Palestinian American, and a glut of celebrities

The Guardian - UK

‘No blank cheques’: Rachel Reeves defends pay deals with unions

Chancellor rebuts Tory accusation she will be a soft touch and hints at tweak to debt rule to allow more borrowing

The Guardian - UK

Stuffed review – urgent warning about food poverty drowned out by clowning

A polemical show blends powerful audio recordings of those at the sharp end of the austerity economy with distracting stage business

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The Independent UK

Keir Starmer under fresh pressure to lift two-child benefit cap in October

The prime minister is facing renewed calls to scrap the austerity-era policy after a senior party figure suggested it would not be removed by chancellor Rachel Reeves in the statement this autumn

The Guardian - UK

Pressure grows on Rachel Reeves to end two-child benefit cap in next budget

Campaigners are warning the chancellor that any delay will keep hundreds of thousands of children in poverty

Evening Standard

OPINION - Tax rises and spending cuts are inevitable – but also a political choice

There is something about politics that lends itself to cricketing metaphors. Perhaps it is because the sport – and we're really talking about test cricket here – is so often bursting with narrative. A game played over five days allows time for story lines, both the heroic and mundane, to…

The Guardian - UK

What personal tax rises might Rachel Reeves introduce to ease UK deficit?

We look at likely changes, as chancellor plans measures to plug £22bn public finances shortfall

Evening Standard

When is the Autumn Budget 2024? Rachel Reeves expected to make tough decisions

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has already announced cuts to winter fuel payments — but are contentious tax rises on the agenda too?

The Independent UK

Free school holiday meals could be pulled for half a million children if council cuts continue, Reeves warned

Labour’s spending limits risk undoing Marcus Rashford’s covid campaigning work, new research shows

The National (Scotland)

Rachel Reeves 'considering spending cuts and tax hikes as growth fails to deliver'

RACHEL Reeves is reportedly planning to hike taxes and stick with Tory spending cuts as economic growth fails to ease pressure on the public…

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