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Starmer needs to tell a better Christmas story about Labour

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If Labour is to avoid catastrophe in the May local elections, the prime minister and his cabinet need to pull together and deliver both action and good news

The Independent UK

Starmer’s shift to the right to combat Farage threat is ‘utterly doomed’, union boss warns

Union boss Matt Wrack warned that the PM ‘can never out-Farage Farage’ as the government attempt to win back votes lost to Reform UK

The Independent UK

Did 2025 mark the end of British parliamentary democracy as we know it?

The conventions and rituals that define the way we do politics rapidly eroded this year – setting the UK on a course into the unknown, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

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Thursday briefing: A short quiz on a very long year – how many questions can you answer about 2025?

Welcome to the newsletter’s first end-of-year quiz. Test yourself on culture, technology and assorted political chaos – and check back on 26 December to see how you fared

The Guardian - UK

Farage criticised for £400,000 job promoting physical gold as pension investment

Exclusive: Reform leader promotes Direct Bullion – but experts say commodity is not for everyday investors

The Guardian - UK

Welsh first minister vows to keep Labour ‘most successful democratic party on the planet’

Eluned Morgan says Welsh Labour would retain crown, despite polls indicating Reform UK and Plaid Cymru could win more seats in elections

The Guardian - UK

Pollsters claim Reform UK is ‘in decline’ as lead over Labour drops

A Yougov poll has shown that the lead held by Nigel Farage’s party has dropped from 10 to five points with both Labour and the Tories gaining

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Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’

Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk

The Guardian - UK

Farage Slams UK's Live Lobster Boil Ban: 'Control Freakery' in New Cruelty Crackdown

The UK has banned boiling lobsters alive in a new cruelty crackdown, but Reform UK's Nigel Farage calls it 'authoritarian control freakery.'

International Business Times UK

Reform plan to cap aid at £1bn would damage UK’s international influence, critics warn

Exclusive: Campaigners say slashing overseas aid would leave UK unable to meet existing commitments

The Guardian - UK

Tuesday briefing: What would a Reform-led country look like?

In today’s newsletter: Local government may offer some answers – after winning 677 council seats, Reform’s triumph quickly gave way to reports of chaos, infighting, and scandal

The Guardian - UK

Rose Elliot is surely the queen of beans

The Guardian - UK

Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t

It’s all there: more apprenticeships, more rights for workers and renters – and most of all, a focus on children. What a shame Labour wavers about saying so, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Elections watchdog will not investigate Nigel Farage’s constituency spending

Labour had called for an investigation into spending in the Clacton constituency, after raising questions about whether it breached a spending limit.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Starmer will ‘absolutely’ still be prime minister by next Christmas, says Labour chair – as it happened

Anna Turley says people will start to ‘see and feel’ change in public services and cost of living from next year

Evening Standard

Farage faces calls to sack candidate who claimed Lammy should ‘go home’

Hampshire and the Solent mayoral candidate Chris Parry’s conduct on X was described as ‘racist and grossly offensive’ by the Labour Party.

The Independent UK

Pressure on Farage to sack ‘racist’ Reform candidate as he doubles down on claim Lammy should ‘go home’ to Caribbean

‘Farage's refusal to take action against racism in his party shows what a dark place he's dragging politics to,’ says Labour Party chair as Reform’s Hampshire mayor candidate praises Enoch Powell

The Guardian - UK

Reform councillors in Kent condemned for spending thousands on political assistants

Party that pledged to cut waste and save money faces criticism after pushing through vote to employ advisers

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The Guardian - UK

Was 2025 the year that business retreated from net zero?

From retailers to banks, carmakers to councils, the bold pledges for carbon-neutral economies are being watered down or scrapped

Evening Standard

Reform council planning ‘huge’ cuts in adult social care

Kent County Council has estimated that 18,804 people could be impacted by the proposal

The Guardian - UK

As Tory after Tory defects to Nigel Farage, I say this: be careful which turncoats you wish for

As a chief whip, I came to know a thing or two about those who flee their parties. Often they are more trouble than they are worth, says government chief whip from 2022 to 2024, Simon Hart

The Conversation

What the year in polls tells us about Reform’s growth – and Labour and Tory losses

In the year and a half since Labour won a landslide in the 2024 general election, over 400 polls have been published. Combined, these polls tell a story of a government and its traditional opposition party losing support and fringe parties gaining ground. The big question this poses is whether…

The Independent UK

Reform candidate who told David Lammy to ‘go home’ questioned other politicians’ loyalty to UK

Nigel Farage’s party is facing calls to drop the retired naval officer

The Guardian - UK

Merry Christmas, Keir Starmer: despite everything, you’re still the best man for the job

Rumours of the prime minister’s demise are premature. Yes, the polls look bad – but these days they reflect little more than voters’ passing whims, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Reform-run Kent council accused of blocking scrutiny of claim it saved £40m

Exclusive: Labour MP made FoI request more than five months ago seeking information on how savings were calculated

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