Sayeeda Warsi quits Conservatives over UK party’s lurch to ‘far right’ Former co-chair criticises party’s ‘hypocrisy and double standards in its treatment of different communities’. Al Jazeera · Sep 27, 2024
Rachel Reeves could scrap non-dom tax raid, reports suggest Officials suggest the government could ditch the manifesto plan if the numbers don’t add up The Independent UK · Sep 27, 2024
‘Head of deckchairs on the Titanic’: Tory leadership hopefuls head to low-key conference Demoralised and in opposition, party delegates are showing little enthusiasm for the candidates – or the event itself The Guardian - UK · Sep 27, 2024
Warsi resigns Tory whip, saying party has moved too far to right Peer cites ‘hypocrisy in treatment of different communities’ as party investigates her tweet on acquittal of ‘coconut’ protester The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024
Tories accused of ‘lying’ as defiant Baroness Warsi quits in racism row Baroness Warsi has quit the Conservatives on the eve of their conference in Birmingham The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2024
Take it from me (and Keir Starmer) – you should never pretend to be more working class than you are The rightwing press will always try to pick apart Labour MPs’ origin stories. Far better to be honest about your roots, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024
What is Boris Johnson doing now? Former PM gave 'manly pep talk' to encourage Prince Harry to stay In his about-to-be-published memoir, Johnson says he was ‘made’ to try to persuade Harry and Meghan not to leave the UK Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2024
Tories troll Keir Starmer with Star Wars meme after ‘return of the sausages’ gaffe The prime minister was supposed to say ‘hostages’ but somehow said ‘sausages’ The Independent UK · Sep 26, 2024
Amazon UK pays corporation tax for first time since 2020 End of ‘super-deduction’ means Amazon UK Services paid £18.7m last year, as British arm raked in sales of £27bn The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024
OPINION - Robert Peston: Keir Starmer is fast approaching his big moment of judgment In the day job, I’ve tried to get the measure of most party leaders and prime ministers since the Eighties. There was one so dull that I nodded off in an upright position over lunch. Mostly I’ve had an idea of what makes them tick: Tony Blair and Margaret Thatcher… Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2024
Taken As Red by Anushka Asthana review: the story behind Keir Starmer’s path to power A richly sourced account of Tory dysfunction and Labour’s transformation into an election-winning machine The Guardian - UK · Sep 26, 2024
Revealed: How Boris Johnson fell on his sword as Cabinet ministers deserted him Ex-chairman of 1922 committee Lord Brady tells how Mr Johnson changed his mind overnight and decided to quit Evening Standard · Sep 26, 2024
Labour's new 'climate envoy' linked with £4m party mega-donor hedge fund LABOUR’S appointee to a plum government job is linked with a Cayman Islands-based hedge fund which donated £4 million to the party, The National… The National (Scotland) · Sep 25, 2024
Cliveden Literary Festival: Champagne, Chanel and Hollywood It’s been a tough year for literary festivals, with sponsor Baillie Gifford cutting ties with Hay and Edinburgh. But in the grounds of Buckinghamshire’s Cliveden House, Will Hosie finds one that is thriving. Evening Standard · Sep 25, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2024 Labour appoints Rachel Kyte to climate envoy role axed by Sunak Appointee was a climate chief at the World Bank and will lead UK’s return to high-level environmental diplomacy
Evening Standard · Sep 23, 2024 Things only going to get worse on economy, say half of Brits as Keir Starmer honeymoon seems over The Ipsos survey showed a sharp fall in optimism since the General Election in July
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024 Sticking to the script isn’t helping Keir Starmer this time Donations scandal rumbles on into Labour conference as allies call for a change in strategy
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2024 Archbishop says God is green and pleads with leaders to: ‘Act now before it is too late to save the world’ Defiant Welby says he won’t be silenced: ‘If it is interfering to seek to avert the climate change catastrophe, let us interfere’
The Independent UK · Sep 22, 2024 Starmer and Gray took football freebie in latest gifts row Keir Starmer has opened the Labour conference with a defence of his gift-taking but is facing questions about hospitality at another football match
The Guardian - UK · Sep 22, 2024 Too white? Too black? Too woke? Politics by labelling is a disease of our times Avoiding political debate with crude and insulting tags such as ‘coconut’ stifles diversity of thought
The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2024 Keir Starmer now less popular than Rishi Sunak, poll suggests Opinium poll for the Observer finds a 45-point drop in the prime minister’s approval rating since he won the election
The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2024 Climate activists cleared in UK of charges in rooftop protest at Sunak's estate Four Greenpeace activists who were arrested for scaling the country estate of former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last year to protest his oil and gas drilling expansion plans have been cleared of criminal charges
The Independent UK · Sep 20, 2024 Victims of torture and trafficking rounded up for Rwanda deportation under Tory scheme, report finds Migrants speak about being suddenly detained for removal to Rwanda in new charity report
The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2024 Why is Sue Gray at the centre of a new political storm? Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is being paid a larger salary than the prime minister, it has emerged. But there’s also more to the story
The Guardian - UK · Sep 19, 2024 With a lust for freebies and hobbled by infighting, Labour look like the Tories 2.0 The prime minister promised a government a world apart from Rishi Sunak’s, yet the similarities are mounting