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The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Councils will be forced to build homes to fix England’s housing crisis, says Starmer

Binding targets will compel authorities to build 370,000 homes a year with government to say how many per area

The Guardian - UK

Starmer vows to put ‘builders not blockers first’ with changes to planning rules

Angela Rayner and Sir Keir Starmer have set out changes to councils’ housebuilding targets which could see green belt land developed.

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner forces councils to surrender green belt with immediate new housing targets

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer has promised to build 1.5 million new homes over five years to fix the housing crisis

The Independent UK

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Tories question £13m extra funding for UN’s Gaza aid agency

Sir Keir Starmer committed the extra money at a meeting with the head of UNRWA.

The Independent UK

More than 150 apartment block residents face eviction after no fault notices served weeks before Christmas

Exclusive: Residents at Vive Living Childers Street in Deptford have been served with a Section 21 eviction notice

The Independent UK

The civil service grew under the Tories. Can Starmer reduce it without further harming morale?

With departments required to make 5% budget cuts, civil servants are in for a demanding future

The Guardian - UK

Ministers planning to cut more than 10,000 civil service jobs

Exclusive: Sources say there is belief that service has become too big after growing during Brexit and pandemic years

The Guardian - UK

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The Tories are living in an echo chamber with Kemi Badenoch as its mouthpiece

KemiKaze neither listens nor learns as she loses to Keir Starmer week after week at prime minister’s questions

The Guardian - UK

It’s not bigotry to worry about migration – the latest figures tell a complex story

Large parts of Britain would not function without migrants, but there are consequences for housing, GDP and productivity, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

Starmer and farmers locked in deadlock over tax changes after hundreds of tractors descend on Westminster

Hundreds of farmers brought their tractors to Westminster for a day of protest – but the Labour government shows no sign of backing down on its plan to introduce inheritance tax

The Independent UK

Starmer’s Labour knows the kind of Britain it wants – it just doesn’t know how to build it

Ministers are right to want to reform the state: it’s crucial to their project. But simply telling civil servants to work harder won’t achieve it, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Early years funding boost: why the UK government is prioritising getting children school ready

The UK government is putting money into early years education in England. A funding boost of £75 million is intended to increase the number of staff and places for children in nurseries.

The Conversation

London mayor Sadiq Khan gets £4k pay rise, meaning he earns almost as much as the Prime Minister

Mr Khan takes home £165,001, not far short of the £166,786 reported salary of Sir Keir Starmer

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer claims fresh Brexit reset victory as UK strikes £360m EU fishing deal

Fishing rights were a constant source of tension following the UK’s exit from the EU

The Independent UK

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International Business Times UK

Public Outcry as Angela Rayner Defends £68,000 Photographer: 'Good for Democracy' or Wasteful?

Deputy PM Angela Rayner defends hiring a £68,000 taxpayer-funded photographer, igniting controversy over government spending.

The Independent UK

Starmer faces wave of strikes as union discontent spreads over pay rise caps

Labour is potentially facing months of unrest over public sector pay as more unions raise concerns over the impact of Rachel Reeves’ spending review

Evening Standard

Downing Street: We must overhaul planning system in order to hit house targets

The Government has set out plans to build 1.5 million homes and make 150 planning decisions on major infrastructure projects.

Evening Standard

Farm tax changes under fire in Parliament as angry farmers protest outside

Thousands of people gathered along Whitehall for another demonstration against the ‘toxic’ Budget changes.

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Evening Standard

Hundreds of tractors block central London in protest against inheritance tax plans

Ministers have faced fierce opposition to inheritance tax changes for farmers

The Independent UK

Sir Keir Starmer ‘raised human rights’ with UAE amid efforts to free UK prisoner

Ryan Cornelius was originally detained in the UAE for 10 years as part of a bank fraud case, but his detention was extended by 20 years.

The Independent UK

PM urged to strip UK citizenship from ‘jihadi terrorists and Assad supporters’

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch clashed with Sir Keir Starmer over the issue of immigration at Prime Minister’s Questions.

The Independent UK

Starmer compares Badenoch to ‘arsonist complaining about people trying to put fire out’

Sir Keir Starmer compared Kemi Badenoch to “an arsonist complaining about the person putting the fire out” in a heated immigration debate during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 11 December.

The Independent UK

Former Europe minister blames Home Office for blocking Brexit reset progress

Denis MacShane has hit out at the Home Office over blocks to agreeing a youth mobility scheme

The Guardian - UK

Dining across the divide: ‘She’s a big fan of Jeremy Corbyn. I think Keir Starmer is the best thing to happen to the Labour party for a long time’

They both vote Labour, but disagree on the party’s leader. Were they more aligned on affordable housing, students or sex workers?

The National (Scotland)

Israeli military strikes more than 350 military sites in Syria in past 48 hours

THE Israeli military has said it has struck more than 350 military sites across Syria in the past 48 hours...

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