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Evening Standard

Tony Blair: Why there has to be compromise to end the Ukraine war

Sir Tony Blair discusses peace-making, Brexit and Keir Starmer’s premiership in wide-ranging London Standard interview

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves to turn on spending taps with Budget boost for infrastructure and clean energy

The chancellor is planning to change the government’s fiscal rules to free up billions of pounds of borrowing, which she will promise to spend laying ‘the foundations of future growth’

The Independent UK

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OPINION - Keir Starmer has just wrecked the UK's relationship with Donald Trump

I am starting to wonder if Keir Starmer is naïve or foolish, or both. Presenting himself as a seasoned technocrat, he has shown himself to be embarrassingly callow in the political arts: first, by announcing in isolation, significant cuts to the winter fuel allowance; second, by so woefully handling the…

Evening Standard

Reeves ‘WhatsApps’ Hunt and is in contact ‘regularly’ with Blair and Brown

The Chancellor added that she would love to be able to call up the late Alistair Darling – the last Labour chancellor to deliver a Budget.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson’s memoir flops as sales slump despite ‘£2m advance’

Booksellers reportedly left with ‘piles and piles’ of the political memoir, ‘Unleashed’

The Independent UK

Bring in pay-per-mile road pricing across UK, urges Tony Blair’s thinktank

Rachel Reeves urged to shelve fuel duty plans and overhaul taxes amid expected switch to electric vehicles

The Guardian - UK

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A moment that changed me: I first heard Oasis at 14 – and they gave me the swagger to come out

Definitely Maybe spoke to me as a working-class Glasgow teenager and gave me hope. Be Here Now brought it all crashing down

The Guardian - UK

The NHS desperately needs a shot in the arm – the government’s 10 year plan cannot afford to fail

As the 2024 Budget dawns the government have put out a slew of NHS announcements – but is any of it radical enough to make change?

The Independent UK

Lord Leitch obituary

Businessman and Labour politician who chaired the National Employment Panel and produced his key report in 2006

The Guardian - UK

The big idea: is nostalgia killing politics?

From the Tories’ Thatcher fixation to Labour’s Blair fetish, ideas from the past are poisoning the political present

The Guardian - UK

UK will not apologise for role in slavery at Commonwealth summit, No 10 says

News that no symbolic apology or reparations are planned could put Starmer on collision course with other nations

The Guardian - UK

Dame Joan Collins on Brexit, divorce and being 'a really good diva'

As she launches a new stage show at the Adelphi Theatre, Nick Curtis meets the Dynasty diva to hear what she really thinks about everything from the US election, to taxes, to desire

Evening Standard

Who are the key New Labour figures in Keir Starmer’s government?

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

The Guardian - UK

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Starmer calls it slashing ‘red tape’. In fact, he’s just capitulating to big business

Labour is promoting the idea of a trade-off between regulation and growth. We know where that ends, says Balanced Economy Project’s Nicholas Shaxson

Evening Standard

OPINION - The hereditary peers are an antiquated anachronism in the Lords, so let them stay

The hereditary peers aren’t beholden to political patronage; they’re a unique part of the constitution.

The Conversation

Thatcher, Blair and a brief history of class in British politics – podcast

When Tony Blair came to power in 1997 as the first Labour prime minister in a generation, his government became associated with the phrase “we’re all middle class now”.

The National (Scotland)

'Political giant who created modern SNP': Martin Hannan's obituary of Alex Salmond

THE death of former first minister Alex Salmond at the age of 69 in North Macedonia on Saturday has robbed Scotland of a true political giant ...

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International Business Times

Blair And King Charles Hail Salmond's 'Devotion' To Scotland

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair on Sunday joined King Charles III among a host of British personalities to pay tribute to former Scotland figurehead Alex Salmond after his sudden death at the age of 69.

The Guardian - UK

It’s been 100 first days of woe but Keir Starmer should take heart, Tony Blair’s weren’t a picnic either

Avoidable mistakes and now a brutal reshuffle have pushed Labour’s approval ratings off a cliff. Thankfully, it’s all fixable

International Business Times

Alex Salmond: The Man Who Took Scotland To The Brink Of Independence

Alex Salmond, who died on Saturday aged 69, was for years the figurehead of Scottish independence, a wily political operator who divided opinion as he took the nationalist movement from the political fringes to the mainstream.

The Conversation

Why the Labour government has run aground so quickly – and what it needs to do to get back on course

Many prime ministers at some point find themselves in a situation where nothing they do seems to go right. It happened to Jim Callaghan in the late 1970s, to Gordon Brown in the 2000s and to every Conservative prime minister since 2019.

The Guardian - UK

The chaos at Keir Starmer’s No 10 isn’t just political gossip – but there’s a way for him to fix it

Sue Gray out, Morgan McSweeney in, Simon Case to leave … the churn highlights how vital the right staff are to any PM’s success, says author Anthony Sneldon

The Independent UK

Labour poll lead over Tories slashed to one point

Freebies row, Sue Gray downfall and Budget delay see Starmer ratings tumble

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s new chief of staff to make ‘radical changes’ to No 10 operations

Sources say Morgan McSweeney plans slew of changes as PM attempts to shore up top team after months of rows

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