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Thursday briefing: Labour is betting on an NHS overhaul to deliver real change, but can they pull it off?

In today’s newsletter: With no new funding and a workforce already stretched, questions loom over whether ambition alone can overcome a system in crisis

The Guardian - UK

For all the errors and crises, the blight on Starmer’s first year is still the lack of vision

Prime ministers have recovered from bad starts. But unless Starmer can articulate an idea of the Britain he wants, the public – and his party – may desert him, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

MPs declare more than £1m of gifts and hospitality in year since election

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage declared the highest value, receiving gifts worth a total of £98,709 over the past year.

Evening Standard

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Labour sees biggest first-year poll drop for governing party since 1990s

The last government to experience a double-digit fall in the 12 months after an election was John Major’s Conservatives.

Evening Standard

Starmer faces Labour turmoil and global volatility as he marks year in Number 10

The Prime Minister’s first year in office has been marked by a series of domestic and global challenges after Labour’s landslide victory.

Evening Standard

F1 chief Stefano Domenicali tells Keir Starmer what sets the UK apart: ‘The home of our sport’

Starmer welcomed a host of F1 personalities to 10 Downing Street on Wednesday in celebration of the sport’s 75th anniversary year

The Independent UK

New NHS 10-year plan marks start of ‘major renewal of Britain’, Starmer pledges

The Prime Minister will unveil his vision for the NHS, as he seeks to shift focus away from several chaotic days in Westminster.

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UK's Starmer Backs Finance Minister After Tears In Parliament

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday said that finance minister Rachel Reeves would remain in her role for "a very long time to come" after she appeared visibly upset in parliament as rumours swirled around her future.

International Business Times

Starmer outlines plan to shift NHS care from hospitals to new health centres

Prime minister unveils 10-year health plan to ‘put care on people’s doorsteps’ and prevent illness in first place

The Guardian - UK

Major new NHS plan vows to end ‘8am scramble’ for GP appointment

Radical plans to improve community healthcare include training more GPs

The Independent UK

Reeves will be Chancellor ‘for a very long time’, PM says after Commons tears

The Prime Minister said it was ‘absolutely wrong’ to suggest the Chancellor’s visibly tearful appearance in the Commons related to the welfare U-turn.

Evening Standard

New NHS plan will ‘fundamentally rewire’ health service – Keir Starmer

New neighbourhood health services will be rolled out across the country to bring tests, post-op care, nursing and mental health teams closer to homes.

The Independent UK

Welfare reform has been postponed, but it isn’t going away

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Labour’s overhaul of the benefits system failed because it was clearly a raid by the Treasury looking for savings at speed. The government should produce a Beveridge report for the 21st century – or risk a future, right-wing government taking up the challenge

The Independent UK

Starmer finally bolsters Reeves after her tears in the Commons spook markets

Chaotic PMQs sees chancellor upset – reportedly after clash with speaker – as PM fields questions over black hole left by U-turn

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The Independent UK

Watch: MP recalls Starmer defended ‘activist’ who broke into RAF base 21 years ago in court

Independent MP Zarah Sultana drew a sharp comparison between Keir Starmer’s past and present when recalling how, as a barrister, he defended an activist who broke into RAF Fairford what> to prevent war crimes crimes either needs quotes or a different way into it> in Iraq—calling it “not terrorism, but…

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s welfare rebellion: Starmer must learn from his mistakes

Editorial: A poorly devised cuts policy was mis-sold as reform and MPs were dismissed when they pointed out the problem

The Guardian - UK

Ban on Palestine Action will rebound on Labour

Letters: Dr Lynne Jones recalls her treatment under the law as a Greenham Common activist in the 80s. Plus, letters from a reader whose daughter is awaiting trial, Claire Jauffret and Rev Graham Murphy

The Guardian - UK

Welfare climbdown lets genie out of the bottle, and no one knows what happens next

Government has double challenge to plug £5bn hole while restoring sense that it retains authority and control

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Evening Standard

Worries over future of Chancellor hit UK stocks, the pound and bond markets

A sharper fall for the FTSE 250 typified a drab day for more UK-focused stocks.

The Independent UK

Britain's Starmer backs his Treasury chief after U-turns dent the government's fiscal plans

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office says Treasury chief Rachel Reeves is secure in her job after a series of government U-turns dented her revenue-raising plans

The Guardian - UK

Survival-mode Starmer throws tearful chancellor to wolves at PMQs

Even Kemi Badenoch was able to land punches after prime minister failed to guarantee Rachel Reeves’s position

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves year in review: Chancellor's 2025 is no cause for celebration

City confidence in her is rock bottom — and Rachel Reeves’s high wire act is just one misstep away from a full blown financial crisis, says Jonathan Prynn

The Independent UK

Voices: Has Kemi Badenoch finally shown the killer instinct to save her as Tory leader?

COMMENT: Her filleting of Starmer and Reeves in the Commons is arguably her biggest success since becoming opposition leader. It could silence complaints by her Conservative critics that she lacks the ruthless skills needed to become prime minister, writes Simon Walters.

The Guardian - UK

UK bond yields rise sharply amid speculation over future of Rachel Reeves

Cost of government borrowing leaps as investors take fright from PMQs, before falling back as No 10 says chancellor staying in post

The Independent UK

How Starmer went from defiant to defeated as he scrambled to get his bill over the line

NEWS ANALYSIS: The debacle over the welfare reforms has stripped Keir Starmer of his authority and left his government damaged. David Maddox tracks how the prime minister lost control

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