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Trump’s rhetoric and unpredictability can be ‘destabilsing’ says Lammy

Foreign Secretary David Lammy suggested Donald Trump’s unpredictability was ‘one of his signatures’.

The Independent UK

PM will not moderate language on Truss despite cease and desist letter – No 10

Downing Street questioned whether Ms Truss would also be writing to ‘millions of people up and down the country’ who shared the Prime Minister’s view.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer skips grooming gang vote despite ordering his MPs to vote against it

Downing Street insisted the prime minister had a ‘pre-existing diary commitment’

The Independent UK

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Starmer not wavering over national grooming gang inquiry, No 10 insists

The Prime Minister will be ‘guided by the victims’, his official spokesman said, following a Commons showdown over a new inquiry.

Evening Standard

Labour vows not to ‘cease and desist from truth’ despite Truss lawyers’ demand

Lawyers for Liz Truss have sent a letter to Sir Keir Starmer about ‘false and defamatory public statements’ made about their client.

Evening Standard

BBC ‘sacked’ me over anti-Starmer song Freezing This Christmas, says freelance journalist

Parody song ‘Freezing This Christmas’ criticised Labour’s winter fuel payment cut

The Independent UK

Elon Musk has discussed strategies to oust PM Keir Starmer: Reports

Elon Musk has gone on a social media rampage against Keir Starmer in recent months.

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Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy

‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses PM of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her seat

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss sends Keir Starmer cease and desist letter over 'crashed the economy' claim

Lawyers representing Liz Truss have sent a cease and desist letter to Sir Keir Starmer asking him to stop saying the former prime minister crashed…

The National (Scotland)

Religion, police and education leaders unite with grooming survivors to demand immediate government action

Exclusive: A coalition of 65 charities is pushing home secretary to act on key recommendations from child sexual abuse inquiry

The Independent UK

Liz Truss sends Starmer cease and desist letter over claims she crashed economy

The letter claims that suggestions she ‘crashed’ the economy are ‘false and misleading’.

Evening Standard

CEOs react to Zuckerberg’s message to Trump

Also: Trump considers "state of emergency," eBay stock soars on Facebook news.

Fortune

All British politicians should immediately distance themselves from the foreign interference of Elon Musk

British politics entered the new year in a state of online siege from the incoming US government’s ironically named “efficiency tzar” and discourse provocateur (aka “troll”), Elon Musk.

The Conversation

Starmer to keep saying Truss crashed economy despite legal letter, No 10 suggests – as it happened

PM’s spokesperson asks whether Truss ‘will write to millions of people who felt her economic record pushed their mortgage bills up’

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Truss sends cease and desist to Starmer demanding he stop saying she crashed the economy

Downing Street said the prime minister ‘absolutely stands by’ his comments on the previous government’s record

The Guardian - UK

Elon Musk’s rage-fests on X make it clear that he wants something. I think I know what it is

The billionaire appears to have a David Brent-like desire to be seen as an entertainer. Please let him get back to conquering Mars, says Guardian columnist Emma Brockes

Evening Standard

Jess Phillips faced ‘deluge of hate’ after Elon Musk grooming gangs comments

Mr Musk’s comments followed Labour’s decision to decline a Whitehall-led inquiry into child sexual abuse.

The Guardian - UK

Civil service morale worsened despite improving pay levels, survey finds

Whitehall Monitor report also said churn increased as three new departments created under Rishi Sunak

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The Independent UK

David Lammy set to unveil ‘world’s first sanctions regime’ to tackle people smuggling gangs

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to discuss cooperation on the issue with Emmanuel Macron on Thursday

The Independent UK

UK plans to sanction people-smugglers in latest bid to stop perilous Channel crossings

Britain says it will impose sanctions on members of people-smuggling gangs who send migrants crossing the English Channel to the U.K. in flimsy boats

The Guardian - UK

Post-cold war peace ‘well and truly over’, warns David Lammy

Foreign secretary says keeping the British people safe means standing up to Russia

The Independent UK

UK plans world’s first sanctions regime tackling people smuggling gangs

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would cripple the ‘illicit finance rings’ powering people smuggling operations.

The Independent UK

Moment MPs reject Conservative bid to launch another grooming gang inquiry

MPs rejected a Conservative bid to push for another national inquiry into grooming gangs by 364 votes to 111 in a vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 8 January.