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Home secretary condemns ‘mortifying’ Labour leadership row as Rayner allies forced to deny new plot

Labour party ‘fighting like rats in a sack’ as turmoil at top of government overshadows Shabana Mahmood’s immigration crackdown

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer has had ‘500 days of failure’ in office, says SNP

SNP Westminster deputy leader Pete Wishart highlighted issues such as pensioner winter fuel payments and the two-child benefit cap.

Evening Standard

PM’s chief of staff ‘not involved’ in briefing against ministers – reports

Sir Keir Starmer has faced calls to sack his top adviser, Morgan McSweeney.

Evening Standard

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Streeting refuses to discuss ‘silly Westminster soap opera’ after briefing row

The Health Secretary, who was the subject of coup rumours, said he did not care whether Sir Keir Starmer was investigating the source of the claims.

Evening Standard

PM prepared to ‘get rid’ of those responsible for briefing war, Miliband signals

Ed Miliband suggested that Sir Keir would sack anyone found to be responsible for the briefings, as the PM faces pressure to overhaul his No 10.

Evening Standard

Starmer stands by McSweeney and says he has been ‘assured no briefings against ministers done from No 10’ – as it happened

PM says he has ‘full confidence’ in his chief of staff Morgan McSweeney amid calls for him to be sacked

The Guardian - UK

It is time for Labour to get a grip and stop this juvenile leadership farce

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Not a single job would be created, asylum hotel closed or pound knocked off the national debt by ousting Keir Starmer – it is time for the Labour Party to act like adults if it is to stop Nigel Farage from marching into No 10

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Starmer aide McSweeney is ‘toast’ after botched briefing ends in ‘epic own goal’

PM declines to back his right hand man after ‘epic own goal’ over coup plot rumours

The Independent UK

Labour Traitors war: Who has been accused of plotting against the Prime Minister and why?

Sir Keir Starmer was forced to condemn ‘completely unacceptable’ briefings against his Health Secretary, Wes Streeting

Evening Standard

Government ‘riven with internal dissent’, says Swinney after Streeting briefing

Scots will be ‘taken aback’ by the internal wrangling at the top of the UK Government, the First Minister said.

The Independent UK

Letter: Prunella Scales obituary

Neil Kinnock writes: Prunella Scales was a dedicated member of the Labour party

The Guardian - UK

Court hears allegation of Labour fraud after Reform UK Runcorn by-election win

The result of the Runcorn and Helsby by-election is being challenged by English Constitution Party candidate Graham Moore.

Evening Standard

MPs urge minister to adopt definition of Islamophobia amid rise in hate crime

Forty Labour and independent MPs call on Steve Reed to take ‘important step’ of defining anti-Muslim hatred

The Guardian - UK

Lucy Powell becomes Labour’s deputy leader – what that means for the party and Keir Starmer

If you blinked you may have missed it. Labour has a new deputy leader, Lucy Powell, who won the contest to replace Angela Rayner.

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The Independent UK

Streeting compares loss in Caerphilly by-election to day Starmer nearly quit

The health secretary compares defeat to one in Hartlepool, which almost forced Starmer to resign

Evening Standard

Labour not ‘bold enough’ says Powell as she becomes deputy leader

Lucy Powell’s victory in the deputy leadership contest could add to Sir Keir Starmer’s headaches at the end of a bruising week.

Evening Standard

Lucy Powell says Labour not ‘bold enough’ in office as she becomes deputy leader

Lucy Powell said: ‘We must give a stronger sense of our purpose, whose side we are on and of our Labour values and beliefs.’

The Conversation

Ireland’s presidential election race now down to two women

Voters across the Republic of Ireland will head to the polls on October 24 to elect a new head of state to replace Michael D. Higgins. His replacement will be Ireland’s tenth president since the role of president was established in the 1937 constitution.

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The Independent UK

‘We must turn Labour around’, deputy leadership frontrunner warns Starmer as she hits out at ‘mistakes’

Exclusive: Lucy Powell takes aim at PM over ‘missteps and mistakes’, saying she was sacked for opposing cuts and that the party must reconnect with lost voters – but not by copying Reform

Evening Standard

London councillor charged with sex offences in line for role on town hall investigating committee

Lambeth councillor Irfan Mohammed was suspended by the Labour Party after being charged with four counts of sexual assault, exposure and engaging in coercive or controlling behaviour

The Guardian - UK

Vote for a party’s policies and actions, not its name or history

Letters: Readers respond to Polly Hudson’s article about feeling that she has no choice but to vote Labour

The Guardian - UK

Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth

The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The National (Scotland)

'Disturbing': Morgan McSweeney's power over UK exposed in explosive book

“You might not be interested in Morgan McSweeney, but he’s very interested in you.”

The National (Scotland)

Brian Leishman blasts Labour Party leadership as 'authoritarian'

BRIAN Leishman has blasted the Labour Party’s leadership as “authoritarian” ...

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer called out for failing to acknowledge genocide in Gaza during speech

Keir Starmer has been called out for failing to acknowledge the genocide in Gaza during his speech to the Labour party conference.

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