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OPINION - Signs of green shoots for our economy? Sadly, I don’t think they exist

For those of a certain maturity, the Nineties offered mixed messages. The overthrow of Margaret Thatcher, the ERM debacle and the humiliation by elements in his own party of John Major were all associated with enduring economic misery. The arrival in 1997 of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, the independence…

Evening Standard

A union renewed, two-party politics revived: is this the new Restoration? Sunak and Starmer hope so

In their own different ways, the two leaders dream of a return to ‘normality’ – but that’s what got us into this mess , says Guardian columnist John Harris

The Guardian - UK

Labour on track for 1997-style landslide over Tories: poll says

Labour holds a 17-point lead over the Conservative Party, setting up a potential landslide win at the next general election similar to Tony Blair’s in 1997, according to a BMG survey for the i newspaper.

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Lord Sainsbury returns to the Labour fold with £2m donation

The former chair of the supermarket chain was a big donor to Blair and Brown but cut off his support under Corbyn

The Guardian - UK

UK poll shows Labour could win landslide

LONDON: Labour holds a 17-point lead over the Conservative Party, setting up a potential landslide win at the next general election similar to the 1997 victory of Tony Blair, according to a new survey.

Bangkok Post

Sir Bernard Ingham obituary

Rumbustious Downing Street chief press secretary who was central to the style and success of the Thatcher revolution

The Guardian - UK

'Ambitious Starmer has air of Blair - but he's thinking big on how to fix broken Britain'

Compared with Tony Blair’s modest proposals, Keir Starmer is offering five major 'missions' to transform Britain and, as Jason Beattie writes, he is thinking big on how to fix a Britain broken by years of incompetent Tory rule

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What are Keir Starmer’s five ‘missions’ for future Labour government?

Labour leader says his plan will fix ‘fundamental’ problems facing Britain and give the UK the ‘confidence’ to move forward as a country

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer denies U-turn on pledges and insists ‘vast majority’ of Labour members back him

Labour leader says he has been forced to ‘adapt’ some principles set out during campaign to replace Corbyn

The Independent UK

Ahern: New British government may be needed to reach protocol deal

The former taoiseach was speaking during a panel discussion with Alastair Campbell.

The Independent UK

Travel expert says Brits will soon no longer need paper passports at airports

Chris Briggs, senior president of identity at document verification company Mitek, has said digital IDs will soon be a reality, following an intervention by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Conservative chief William Hague

Daily Mirror

Explainer-What is the Good Friday Agreement and when was it signed?

The Good Friday Agreement largely ended the "Troubles", three decades of violence that had racked Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was signed on April 10, 1998 - which fell that year on Good Friday in the Christian Easter holiday.

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Women, Beware the Devil’s Lydia Leonard on the new Almeida show and playing Cherie Blair in The Crown

‘It was like being on Stars in Their Eyes’

Evening Standard

Everyone in UK should be issued with Digital ID, say Tony Blair and Lord Hague

Their plan would involve a new ID incorporating details such as a passport, driving licence, tax records, qualifications and right to work status which could be stored on a mobile phone

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The Independent UK

Blair and Hague unite in push for new ‘digital IDs’

Former rivals Sir Tony Blair and Lord Hague said ‘a new sense of national purpose across political dividing lines is needed’.

The Independent UK

Would-be Scottish leader under fire over gay marriage stance

A front-runner to become Scotland’s next leader is fighting to keep her campaign alive amid a backlash over her opposition to same-sex marriage

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Tories should be truly terrified because New Labour is back

In Downing Street in the first decade of this century we used to tally how many times New Labour had been declared dead. Rarely did a week go by without an article suggesting that the once all-conquering New Labour had bitten the dust. For a long while, under Ed Miliband…

The Guardian - UK

Iraq was a terrible war – but it cannot excuse our failure to confront the tyranny we face today

As the 20th anniversary looms, there is much to reflect upon, but still we must defend the values threatened by Russia and Putin, says author and historian John Kampfner

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The Guardian - UK

Brexit will never work. Here’s my solution

Rather than talking about rejoining the EU, we should instead rejoin the single market and the customs union

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s banishment of Corbyn is one more step in eradicating the left from the Labour party

As problems in the UK grow, excluding members with more transformative ideas may harm the party in the long run, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon leaving is like 'Alex Ferguson quitting' as SNP insiders fear slump

Daily Record Political Editor Paul Hutcheon says whoever succeeds Sturgeon will struggle to emulate her

Daily Mirror

Police need thousands more real-life Happy Valley heroes, Yvette Cooper says

In a speech today the Shadow Home Secretary said stories of officers like Catherine Cawood are "very real" as she outlined plans to recruit 13,000 neighbourhood officers and PCSOs

The Independent UK

Yvette Cooper evokes Blair as she sets out modern ‘bobby on the beat’ vision

The shadow home secretary unveiled Labour’s ‘neighbourhood policing guarantee’ in a keynote speech at the Institute for Government think tank.

The Guardian - UK

Millions of us marched over Iraq – and were ignored. Now we have broken politics and endless war

We changed public opinion but couldn’t stop the war. The consequences have been terrible, says Lindsey German, convener of the Stop the War Coalition

The Guardian - UK

‘Mass murder makes money’: Mark Rylance’s campaign for a memorial to Iraq war protester Brian Haw

Haw, who died in 2011, camped on Parliament Square for 10 years, pushing for peace. Now actor Rylance is part of a campaign to honour him with a statue

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