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Voices: Kemi Badenoch’s victory shows the Tories’ survival instinct has finally kicked in

The new Conservative leader faces an almost impossible mission to take the party back to power

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch calls for Tories to be honest about mistakes as she’s elected Conservative leader

Kemi Badenoch was elected Tory leader on Saturday with 53,806 votes, beating Robert Jenrick with 41,388 votes

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch takes aim at Labour in first speech as Conservative leader

KEMI Badenoch paid tribute to leadership contest rival Robert Jenrick in her first speech since becoming the new Conservative Party leader, and…

The National (Scotland)

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Kemi Badenoch wins Tory leadership election

The former business secretary secured 53,806 votes from Tory members after topping the MPs’ ballot.

Evening Standard

Scottish Secretary skips Whitehall event to avoid ‘undermining striking staff’

Ian Murray missed a reception with business leaders at the Scotland Office’s Dover House headquarters

The Independent UK

Post-Brexit red tape puts classical music industry under threat, top soprano warns

Exclusive: The prime minister is facing calls to urgently cut the red tape blocking travelling singers and bands from touring the continent

The Independent UK

UK politics live: Jenrick gets justice role in Badenoch’s shadow cabinet as Stride and Patel land top jobs

It comes as education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced a rise to university tuition fees

The Independent UK

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The 12th-century village battling against the boom in AI data centres

Abbots Langley has become a flashpoint in a battle between villagers and big tech

The Independent UK

Environment secretary insists ‘tractor tax’ will only impact minority as farmers say they’ve been lied to

It comes after the PM was accused of lying to farmers after the government extended inheritance tax to family farms for the first time in history

The Independent UK

Sir Keir Starmer says UK ‘stands with Spain’ after flooding kills more than 200

The UK is also thought to be on standby to offer support.

Evening Standard

Voices: ‘The new Thatcher or the new Truss?’ 10 of your burning Tory leadership questions answered

ASK ME ANYTHING: In this exclusive Q&A session, The Independent’s political commentator Andrew Grice addresses key dynamics in the Tory leadership race, and what we can expect when Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick takes the helm

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner takes £3550 worth of free clothes from Lord Alli

ANGELA Rayner received clothing worth more than £3000 from the Labour peer and donor Waheed Alli, it has emerged.

The National (Scotland)

Ed Davey piles pressure on Keir Starmer with call for ‘urgent’ Brexit rethink

Sir Keir Starmer is pursuing a ‘reset’ of relations with the bloc but concerns persist about a lack of urgency

The Independent UK

Labour government’s shift on Gaza not enough, say British Muslims, scholars

Despite the prime minister taking a slightly tougher line on Israel, the UK continues to supply weapons, avoid sanctions

Al Jazeera

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Brickbat: Common People

When campaigning for office earlier this year, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised the Labour Party would not raise taxes… The post Brickbat: Common People appeared first on Reason.com.

The Independent UK

Reeves gives Labour post-Budget poll boost despite £40bn tax row

Exclusive: Rachel Reeves has faced a storm of criticism after producing the biggest tax raising Budget in history but the latest weekly tracker poll has shown public support grow for Labour

The Guardian - UK

After Reeves’s historic budget, Labour has time to pursue its revolution. What it needs now is public trust

The government is operating in an unforgiving time and lacks capital with voters. It will be crucial to address that, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner declares £3,550 worth of clothes from Lord Alli

The Deputy Prime Minister updated a declaration of a gift from the Labour backer to show it was for work clothes.

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The Guardian - UK

Reeves told she will have to raise further £9bn to avoid UK public service cuts

Warning comes after Rachel Reeves’s record tax-raising budget sent tremors through financial markets

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves’s budget survives contact with reality – for now

The chancellor, on the morning-after media round, just scraped a no-score draw despite a pervasive sense of unkept promises

The Conversation

Labour’s first budget: redistribution away from the rich after over a decade of Conservative rule

Labour’s first budget in 14 years appears to have avoided the Halloween nightmares that many predicted. Yes, the overall tax burden is at its highest level since 1948, but this budget’s tax and spend distribution is such that it spreads both the pain and the benefit. Most of the pain…

The Independent UK

Starmer accused of lying to farmers with surprise Budget ‘tractor tax’ set to destroy family farms

Critics attack the government’s decision to extend inheritance tax to family farms

The Independent UK

Reeves admits tax hikes will hit working people as IFS accuses chancellor of ‘undermining trust’

Rachel Reeves was forced to accept that her decision to raise employers’ national insurance contributions will lead to workers being paid less, but asked, ‘what alternative was there?’

Evening Standard

OPINION - The real story behind the Labour-Trump row that everyone missed

“The Brits are Coming!” screamed the headline of the Trump campaign’s press release. It turned out to be the most moderate part of it. An absolute masterclass in hyperbole followed. Accusations of “illegal foreign assistance” and “anti-American election interference”, a parallel to the 243rd anniversary last week of the surrender…

Evening Standard

NHS workload will ‘go up, not down’, Starmer warns after new health funding

The Prime Minister insisted he will help the health service deal with growing pressures.

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