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Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer

Labour leader was responding to a question from the BBC about Vivienne Groom, who was prosecuted over breach of benefit rules

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Rish! tries for gravitas on Middle East but he’s just no longer a serious politician

Blamed for almost everything else these days, for Sunak the focus on foreign affairs was a blessed relief

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on local councils: they must meet the needs of communities, not just Whitehall

Editorial: Democracy’s link to the places that matter to people is being eroded, a concern given next month’s elections

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Angela Rayner handling house sale controversy ‘in right way’, says Yvette Cooper

Labour deputy leader being investigated over whether she gave false information a decade ago

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Don’t despair. History shows Labour even cash-strapped governments can be radical

Sir Keir’s team will inherit a poisoned chalice from the Tories, but progress needn’t depend on the state opening its wallet

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RAF jets deployed to shoot down Iranian drones heading to Israel

Aircraft in Iraq and Syria have been deployed to intercept ‘any airborne attacks within range of our existing missions,’ the Ministry of Defence said.

Evening Standard

Labour’s first 100 days: what is their grand plan for government?

If the party makes it to No 10, its leader must decide which policies to prioritise to give it the best start

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Top Labour figures met financial services firms after £150k donation

OpenDemocracy investigation names attenders, including Keir Starmer, at Edinburgh meeting to discuss party’s banking policies

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Rayner property row a ‘storm in a teacup,’ shadow minister suggests amid probe

Jim McMahon bolstered Labour’s defence of the deputy leader on Saturday, saying many people will see the matter as a ‘storm in a teacup’.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson 'humiliated' not to be targeted in honey-trap scandal

Has BoJo lost his mojo?

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Tory attack on Angela Rayner is a political masterstroke but unlikely to shift the polls

You probably don't because it didn't happen, but remember that time Keir Starmer almost had to resign? Cast your mind back to the spring of 2022 and the Labour leader had promised to quit if he received a fixed-penalty notice for the beer and curry he consumed following an event…

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak duel on defence as Labour vows to back nuclear submarines

Starmer says Trident is ‘bedrock’ as he commits to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer wants to be seen as a working-class PM. Deeds, not warm words, will determine that

People in my home city of Liverpool still see Labour as a ‘hold your nose’ option. That should worry the leadership, says the Guardian’s assistant national news editor, Aaron Sharp

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It’s fair that Angela Rayner is subject to scrutiny – but not if it’s based on snobbery

Labour’s deputy is of course accountable for any irregularity in her tax affairs. Yet this looks like class-based shaming, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Margaret Thatcher set Britain’s decline in motion – so why can’t politics exorcise her ghost?

MPs on all sides pay homage, while her failures are forgotten, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own

Now Labour is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like a political coup, or the ultimate act of selling out, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Labour aims to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP

Starmer’s comments come before visit to Barrow, where he is to promise nuclear deterrent is ‘bedrock’ of security plan

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Labour may fail to grab target seats as young voters turn away over Gaza and climate

Party figures say decision to tack to right on issues such as immigration could also diminish predicted landslide

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‘Lesser of two evils’: voters in Sheffield Hallam look to Labour with reluctance

Conservative supporters are hard to find in this area of Sheffield, but Lib Dems say Labour are taking these voters for granted

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Waiting for this flailing government to call an election is excruciating. We need parliamentary reform

A Fixed-term Parliaments Act must be restored, so election dates suit the national interest – not the prime minister’s, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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‘Revolutions are coming’: who are Youth Demand and what do they want?

New organisation behind protest outside Keir Starmer’s home has big plans for future political change

The Guardian - UK

Let’s stop talking about ‘great’ Britain – and rebrand ourselves as a different sort of country

Any plans for ‘national renewal’ must focus on freeing the UK from its vice of wallowing in guilt or glory, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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The Guardian view on Labour and the tax gap: a £5bn question for a coterie of insiders

Editorial: Among the party’s experts on tax avoidance is a former City lawyer who wrote that ‘taxation is legalised extortion’

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rishi Sunak, Adidas Sambas and the art of the political apology

Rishi Sunak has said sorry. This recantation didn't quite match the magnitude of Keith Joseph's 1974 apology for the Conservatives Party's role in the post-war consensus or Tony Blair's expression of regret over Britain's role during the Irish potato famine. But it is parliamentary recess and the pickings are slim.

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Rishi Sunak recalls seeing shoplifters in his mother’s pharmacy amid new criminal crackdown

But Labour slams the plan as too little, too late amid an epidemic of retail crime

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