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SNP leadership race has become a ‘squabble’, says Starmer

The Labour leader said the SNP are ‘talking and arguing with themselves’.

The Independent UK

Thursday briefing: The numbers that say it’s not ‘game over’ for Rishi Sunak in 2024 … yet

In today’s newsletter: His personal ratings may be surprisingly high, but his party faces a general election wipeout – can Sunak change his party’s fortune?

The Guardian - UK

Starmer pledges to transform medical research ahead of Edinburgh visit

The Labour leader said his party’s industrial strategy would make Scotland a ‘world leader’ in medical technology.

The Independent UK

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Budget 2023: Hunt warns childcare support boost ‘can’t happen overnight’

Support to be ‘ramped up in orderly way’ amid concerns system won’t cope with increased demand but struggling parents say help arriving ‘too late’

Evening Standard

Hunt’s ‘budget for growth’ gives top 1% a pension bonus but ignores public services

No money for nurses, doctors or teachers note critics as Starmer says UK is on ‘path of managed decline’

The Guardian - UK

Budget 2023: Senior Tories call for rethink on corporation tax rise to boost growth

Jacob Rees-Mogg called for ‘low tax rates with few exclusions’ for businesses.

Evening Standard

Beware Hunt’s hype. There’s more poverty ahead and his budget did nothing to change that

The statement will be remembered for the childcare pledge, but there was nothing to meet the scale of Britain’s economic malaise, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

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Keir Starmer accuses Tories of turning Britain back into ‘sick man of Europe’

Labour leader says government has presided over decade of stagnation and Tory mavericks attack chancellor

The Guardian - UK

Budget 2023: Martin Lewis gives his verdict on changes to childcare, pensions and taxes

Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis has shared a video on social media to give a summary of Jeremy Hunt's Budget 2023 - addressing issues such as childcare, pensions and taxes

Daily Mirror

Tories give wealthy 'permanent tax cut' while taking away £67-a-month from struggling households

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt also promised a 'callous' clamp down on benefits claimants

Daily Record

Billions spent to stop 15,000 workers retiring is ‘huge giveaway to wealthiest’

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer criticised Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s pensions move as a boost for the ‘richest 1%’.

The Independent UK

Price of a packet of cigarettes to rise from 6pm tonight, after Spring Budget changes

Jeremy Hunt’s tax rise in the spring statement will mean smokers fork out about another pound for a packet of 20

Evening Standard

‘Troubling’ messages showing No 10 pressure on BBC need investigating, say former staff

BBC journalists asked to avoid term ‘lockdown’ in reporting at the start of the pandemic, leaked messages show

The Guardian - UK

I dare SNP candidates to put Tories in power after general election – Sarwar

The contenders said this week that another vote on independence would be the price of SNP support for a Labour UK government.

The Independent UK

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Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer rages as Jeremy Hunt gives NOTHING to NHS, crime or housing in Budget

Keir Starmer attacked Jeremy Hunt's budget after he announced the details in the Commons today. 'Health and wealth must go together. Britain can't afford to be the sick man of Europe,' the Labour Leader slammed

The Independent UK

Scrapping of lifetime allowance is permanent tax cut for wealthy – Starmer

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s Budget announcement ‘is a huge giveaway to some of the very wealthiest’.

The Independent UK

Budget 2023: Pensions boost as Jeremy Hunt ditches lifetime allowance

Labour slams ‘giveaway for rich’ as chancellor moves to stop senior NHS doctors from retiring

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer slams Budget as ‘sticking plaster’ for country that needs ‘major surgery’

Sir Keir Starmer branded the Budget a “sticking plaster” for a country that needs “major surgery”.

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The Independent UK

Stand up to snowflake MPs after Gary Lineker row, Starmer tells Sunak

The pair clashed over the Match Of The Day presenter at Prime Minister’s Questions.

The Independent UK

Starmer challenges Sunak over BBC chairman ‘mentor’ and Tory ‘snowflakes’

Labour leader says PM should ‘stand up to his snowflake MPs’ who tried to get Gary Lineker cancelled

Daily Mirror

Weak Rishi Sunak blasted for failing to stand up to 'snowflake' Tories over Gary Lineker

Keir Starmer lashed out at "cancel culture addict" Tories who tried to "cancel a football highlight show", accusing the Prime Minister of "hiding behind playground bullies" who disagreed with the Match of the Day host

The Independent UK

Watch the 2023 Spring Budget as Jeremy Hunt announces childcare and energy bill support

Watch as Jeremy Hunt delivers his Spring Budget to the House of Commons on Wednesday (15 March) and follow The Independent’s live blog featuring the latest updates.

The Conversation

Keir Starmer: four lessons from history for an opposition trying to be the 'government-in-waiting'

Labour’s Keir Starmer has one inestimable quality in leading a government-in-waiting a year out from a general election: a consistent 20-point lead in opinion polls.

The Independent UK

Starmer and Biden could share ‘progressive moment’, says Labour

Labour and US President Joe Biden can share a ‘progressive moment’ if the party wins the next election, David Lammy will argue in a visit to the US.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rishi Sunak is playing a cunning — and morally dubious — double game

Tomorrow, as Chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivers his first Budget speech, he will be faced across the Despatch Box by Sir Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. Yet his true opponents will be the ghosts of Conservatism’s recent past: Boris Johnson and the ethical crash that ended his shambolic premiership;…

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