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Starmer meets mother of British Hamas captive and vows no Gaza ceasefire without return of hostages

The prime minister was the keynote speaker at the Labour Friends of Israel annual lunch where he recommitted his support for Israel and a two-state solution

The Independent UK

Starmer: No Gaza ceasefire without return of hostages

The Prime Minister spoke at the Labour Friends of Israel annual lunch.

Evening Standard

‘Not just broken but elitist’: UK’s top earners benefit most from shared parental leave

Just 10,600 new fathers took shared parental leave in the tax year 2023-24, compared with 623,100 women taking up paid maternity leave over the same period

The Independent UK

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Starmer’s ‘Plan for Change’ will improve lives of working people, No 10 claims

The PM is to give a major speech on Thursday, following a backlash to the Budget, plummeting poll ratings and the first resignation from his Cabinet.

The Independent UK

More than half of Britons would support a farmers strike, poll shows

Voters back workers in the under-fire farming sector walking out on strike, viewing them as among the groups worst treated by Sir Keir Starmer’s government

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves's sister to attend Cabinet in Labour's latest nepo move

RACHEL Reeves’s sister Ellie will now attend Cabinet in a coup for the dynastic wing of the Labour Party ...

The National (Scotland)

Sir Chris Wormald confirmed as UK’s new top civil servant

The current permanent secretary at the Department of Health and Social Care will succeed Simon Case as Cabinet Secretary

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Keir Starmer appoints Chris Wormald as new cabinet secretary

Wormald will take over from Simon Case on 16 December as the most senior official in the country

The Guardian - UK

Starmer appoints ‘safe pair of hands’ to run civil service as he prepares for major reset

The prime minister builds towards a major relaunch after only five months of government as he picks Sir Chris Wormald, the Department of Health’s long-serving permanent secretary, to take over as the new cabinet secretary running Whitehall

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer 'to ditch flagship growth pledge in Labour reset speech'

KEIR Starmer has been accused of “sidelining” his flagship growth pledge – with economic forecasts plunging in the wake of Labour’s first…

The National (Scotland)

Channel crossings by migrants in small boats: Key numbers

Afghan migrants accounted for the single largest group of arrivals in the first nine months of the year.

Evening Standard

Migrant Channel crossings top 20,000 since Starmer became Prime Minister

Home Office figures show 122 people made the journey on Sunday.

Evening Standard

Confusion grows over Labour’s economic plan as minister refuses to rule out sidelining growth pledge

Alex Norris was repeatedly pressed on whether the government planned to sideline the PM’s pledge to make the UK the fastest growing economy in the G7

The Independent UK

NHS bosses reportedly worried about Starmer’s pledge to cut waiting lists

PM expected to set target to carry out 92% of routine operations and appointments within 18 weeks

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Nigel Farage claims Trump team ‘appalled’ by Chagos Islands deal – as it happened

Reform UK leader and Donald Trump ally says agreement likely to collapse as deal with China over Hong Kong did

The Independent UK

British Museum and Greek PM ‘held talks over return of Elgin Marbles’

Keir Starmer is thought to be more open to the idea of returning the Elgin Marbles than predecessor Rishi Sunak

The Guardian - UK

Public services complaints in England soar by more than a third since 2016 – study

Written complaints about DWP double, while prisons, the NHS and higher education experience big increase

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying bill brings critical state of palliative care into government’s focus

MPs behind commission for better end-of-life care proposal hope for Wes Streeting support after vote result

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The Guardian - UK

Weather blamed for small boat arrivals rising to 20,000 under Labour

Home secretary to highlight data showing record number of calm autumnal days that made Channel crossings likely

The Independent UK

Britain sets aside £10bn for future payments to EU more than eight years after Brexit vote

Exclusive: To cover the continuing costs of Britain’s divorce from Europe, the government has accounted for £20.6bn in future payments for Brussels staff and diplomats’ pensions, as well as the UK’s pre-existing financial obligations

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s big relaunch won’t solve its biggest problem: this government doesn’t speak human

Farage and Trump are winning because they understand the politics of emotion, while Labour is lost in numbers and statistics, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Evening Standard

Channel migrant crossings top 20,000 since Starmer became Prime Minister

Some 50,637 arrivals were recorded during Rishi Sunak’s premiership, which began on October 25 2022.

The Independent UK

Starmer warned a UK-US trade deal would ‘destroy Britain’s family farms and food standards’

Warning comes as farmers prepare to descend on Westminster for a second time to protest planned changed to inheritance tax rules

The Guardian - UK

Louise Haigh’s exit dealt with quickly in contrast to Tories, says Labour minister

Pat McFadden defends government handling of transport secretary’s departure, saying it did not ‘drag on for weeks’

The Independent UK

Cabinet minister does not know ‘who knew what when’ over Louise Haigh

Ms Haigh resigned as transport secretary on Friday in relation to a criminal conviction.

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