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UK to lower voting age to 16 – but not everyone is convinced

Votes at 16 has grown from a niche concern to become a salient issue supported by most UK political parties and electoral reform groups

The Independent UK

Notting Hill Carnival not the cause of knife crime, event CEO says

Matthew Phillip urged people not to scapegoat the carnival as he greater safety measures ahead of this year’s event

The Independent UK

Starmer’s suspension of ‘rebel’ MPs risks alienating his party in a way he can’t afford

Political parties with commanding parliamentary majorities are often tempted by the promise of assertive leadership and decisive action. Yet, as the events of the last few weeks reveal, a large majority is no substitute for the subtler arts of political management, party cohesion and narrative discipline.

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Intelligence committee demands to know why ministers kept them in the dark over Afghan data breach

The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) has warned there was no grounds for information to be withheld from them

The Independent UK

Voices: I’m with Camilla – sometimes you might just have to ‘whack a groper in the goolies’

COMMENT: As a new book reveals that the Queen once fought off a would-be attacker on London Underground, Victoria Richards says that sometimes, putting your own safety first is all that matters

The Independent UK

Workers may not get ‘day one’ protection against unfair dismissal despite government pledge

The defeat is a new blow for for the government as the proposals were a Labour manifesto commitment

The Independent UK

Reform gives power companies ‘formal notice’ it plans to scrap their clean energy subsidies

‘The political consensus that has sheltered your industry for nearly two decades is fracturing,’ MP says

The Independent UK

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Student pays £36k to have his legs broken in surgery to become 3.7in taller

A 5ft7 student paid £36,000 to have his legs broken during a surgery in order to become 3.7 inches taller.

The Independent UK

NASCAR teams 23XI and Front Row seek urgent court order to retain charters

The two race teams suing NASCAR over antitrust allegations filed for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction to be recognized as chartered organizations for the remainder of 2025

The Independent UK

Labour must stand firm and resist trade union pressure

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting are right to stand up to Unite and the BMA

The Independent UK

Doctors’ 29% pay claim is non-negotiable, says BMA chief, warning strikes could go on for years

Dr Tom Dolphin claimed the 29 per cent pay demand is both reasonable and easily affordable for the NHS

The Independent UK

Voices: Why the resident doctors are wrong to go on a five-day strike

COMMENT: There are valid issues for resident doctors to settle, but this week’s strike will further erode people’s trust in the NHS – and could hasten the end of the healthcare system altogether, warns John Oldham, GP for 29 years and a senior adviser to Wes Streeting

The Independent UK

Woman convicted of stowing away on flight to Paris faces extradition to Connecticut

A woman convicted of stowing away on a flight from New York to Paris without a boarding pass or a passport won’t be released from custody

The Independent UK

Former Tory chairman defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK in blow to Kemi Badenoch

Sir Jake Berry, who was chairman of the Tories under Liz Truss and a staunch Boris Johnson ally has defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

The Independent UK

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The Independent UK

‘I meant it!’: Former Tory minister reacts to infamous viral comment caught on hot mic

Former education secretary Gillian Keegan has spoken to ex-Labour MPs Jon Ashworth and Gloria De Piero for their Politics Inside Out podcast and addressed an infamous post interview comment she made when she mistakenly thought the camera was off

The Independent UK

Police raid office of French far-right party in fraud probe

Prosecutors are investigating claims of illegal financing of Marine Le Pen’s campaign

The Independent UK

A 'click-to-cancel' rule, intended to make cancelling subscriptions easier, is blocked

A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have required businesses to make it easy for consumers to cancel unwanted subscriptions and memberships, has been blocked by a court days before it was set to go into effect

The Independent UK

HS2 should be ‘largely completed’ by now but project is just over halfway there, boss admits

HS2’s chief executive blamed the massive delays in the execution of the project on ‘inefficiency of work’

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France and the UK can 'save Europe' by working together, Macron says on state visit

Macron’s three-day trip is the first state visit to the UK by a European Union head of state since Brexit and a symbol of the British government's desire to reset relations with the bloc after its withdrawal from the EU in 2020.

The Independent UK

How the brutal killing of a sniffer dog has outraged Italy

Bruno the bloodhound died from internal bleeding after sausages filled with nails were thrown into his kennel

The Independent UK

Labour council criticised after banning military equipment from Armed Forces Day celebrations

Protest groups say Armed Forces Day glorifies violence and military equipment in front of children

The Guardian - UK

No 10 regrets choice of ‘insipid’ new cabinet secretary, sources say

Keir Starmer’s aides said to be trying to work around Chris Wormald, who was only appointed six months ago

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Prime Minister has a London problem

At the general election exactly a year ago, London voted heavily for a change of government, affirming a trend underway for more than a decade in which the capital has steadily become a more ‘Labour city’.

The Independent UK

Voices: Is London’s stock market in crisis?

COMMENT: There’s already been a mass exodus of investors as they gravitate towards the welcoming arms of New York, writes James Moore. But further decline in IPOs could do untold damage to the UK market

The Guardian - UK

This was Les Mis in the Commons – and Kemi Badenoch couldn’t resist hamming it up

The Tory leader should have supported Labour’s welfare bill – but such responsible behaviour would have defied the norms of British politics, writes Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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