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Labour in 'best position in 12 years' after strong Chester win

Labour leader Keir Starmer says result shows "people want change"

Liverpool Echo

Chester by-election analysis: Labour whitewash shows scale of challenge facing Rishi Sunak

Polling experts have warned Rishi Sunak he “has a lot of work to do” to stand a chance of holding on to power after Labour comfortably won the Chester City by-election.

Evening Standard

Sunak flunks first electoral test as Labour wins 'best ever' by-election result

The Tories lost the first by-election contested since Sunak became Prime Minister

The National (Scotland)

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Poll finds 62% back Labour's plan to scrap tax breaks for private schools

Labour leader Keir Starmer wants to remove the charitable status of private schools that means parents don’t pay VAT on fees, but Rishi Sunak has rejected the idea

Daily Mirror

Top private schools attended by senior Tories avoid £65m in VAT due to charity status

Keir Starmer told the PM to 'end the Tory scandal' of massive tax breaks for private schools, which are able to escape paying VAT on their fees due to their charitable status

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak’s honeymoon period has become a shipwreck

The prime minister is now almost guaranteed to give the wrong response to any given question

The Guardian - UK

PMQs: Starmer calls for end to private school tax breaks

Red walls and blue walls, remainers and leavers, Bennites and Gaitskellites, these things come and go but one constant of British politics endures: dividing lines.

Evening Standard

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PMQs analysis: Rishi Sunak had two easy tap-ins and Keir Starmer failed to finish clinically

Rishi Sunak had two tap-ins at the start of Prime Minister’s Questions.

Evening Standard

Starmer tells PM Labour will lend him the votes to pass planning reforms

His comments come days after the Government was forced to pull a vote on plans for mandatory, centrally-set targets to build 300,000 homes a year.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer attacks Sunak over tax benefits for private schools

Labour leader asks PM why he handed his old school Winchester £6m in taxpayers’ money

The Guardian - UK

Fossil fuel companies keep parties quiet to avoid activists

Shell has told employees to “avoid talking about” the boss’s leaving do

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer attacks Rishi Sunak on private school tax breaks - with £6m for PM's old school

The Labour leader used the weekly session of Prime Minister's to blast the "Tory scandal" of charitable status for independent schools as he declared "trickle down education is nonsense"

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer demands end to tax breaks that helped PM’s private school

Keir Starmer demands end to handouts which have helped give PM’s old school ‘a rowing club and extensive art collection’

The Independent UK

An unexpected vibe shift is making SW1A tribes put down the bayonets

Isn’t it lovely not to hear so much news about politicians these days? Since I make my living thinking and writing about politics I probably shouldn’t reveal this, but even I’m relieved by days when the headlines aren’t dominated by politicians yelling insults at each other about yet another mega-crisis.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Prisoners to be held in police cells as jails close to full, justice minister says – as it happened

Damian Hinds says acute increase in prison population means he has requested temporary use of up to 400 police cells

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove once backed ending 'egregious' private schools' tax advantages

Rishi Sunak's Government has defended the charitable status of independent schools and claimed they have an 'important role to play in levelling up opportunities' - despite the Levelling Up Secretary's 2017 remarks

The Guardian - UK

If Labour’s leadership is hobbling internal candidates, is it fit to run a democracy?

Mounting evidence of dirty tricks against prospective MPs can’t be dismissed as leftwing sour grapes, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Daily Mirror

David Miliband hints at Commons comeback as he won't rule out standing at next election

Ex-Cabinet Minister David Miliband, who was defeated by brother Ed in the 2010 leadership election, refuse to shoot down suggestions he's planning a return to frontline politics

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The Independent UK

David Miliband hints he could stand for Labour at general election

‘That’s not been decided yet. That’s not done,’ says former Labour foreign secretary

The Guardian - UK

Starmer is leading a slow march towards a softer Brexit — he just won’t say it out loud

The Labour leader is shouting through a megaphone at leave voters but dropping hints for remainers, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Unifying his fractious party may be Rishi Sunak’s biggest challenge of all

The prime minister is toughening his stance on a range of issues but that won’t be enough for some unruly Tory MPs

The Guardian - UK

Why I will never forgive Matt Hancock

Brief letters: Hancock’s trespasses | Let down by Keir Starmer | Perfect pee | Celebrating kingfishers

Daily Mirror

'Wave of strike action is death knell for Tories running out of excuses'

Kevin Maguire argues "everybody is suffering" and so nurses, rail workers and the rest of those who are taking strike action will receive admiration

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer rules out return of free movement between Britain and EU

Labour leader says it will be a ‘red line’ if party takes power, despite backing the policy three years ago

Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer says EU free movement 'won't come back' - it's 'a red line for me'

Keir Starmer, who backed free movement three years ago during the Labour leadership election, said since Brexit happened he'd opposed bringing it back. 'Ripping up the Brexit deal would lead to years more wrangling', he said

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