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Flynn warns foundations of UK ‘can’t and won’t be fixed’ as SNP eyes indyref2

The SNP Westminster leader has urged Scots to back his party at next year’s election.

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'Mansion tax' could wipe £150,000 off top-end homes in London targeted by Reeves Budget

One in four of the properties hit by the new surcharge are in just three London boroughs; Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Camden, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies

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Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security

Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster

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Mansion tax to wipe £10,000s off value of London homes hit by new levy in Reeves Budget

One in four homes which will pay the property surcharge are in just three London boroughs; Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Camden

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London councils enact emergency plans after three hit by cyber-attack

Kensington and Westminster councils investigating whether data has been compromised as Hammersmith and Fulham also reports hack

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Cyber attack hits London councils triggering ‘emergency’ response plans

Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea town halls said they are urgently working with the National Cyber Security Centre

Evening Standard

Twin tower student block sparks 'red on red' clash between Sadiq Khan and Westminster council

The 605-bed canalside development near Paddington station will be 90m tall and ‘block out daylight’ in surrounding homes

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London visitors to pay tourist tax under Rachel Reeves Budget plans

Rachel Reeves, who is set to deliver her Budget on Wednesday, has signed off measures that will give English cities and regions the power to charge tourists

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Plaid Cymru accuses First Minister of having ‘no influence’ on UK Government

Eluned Morgan came under scrutiny in the Welsh Parliament ahead of the Budget on Wednesday.

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Graham Linehan cleared of harassing trans activist but convicted of damaging phone

Irish comedy writer cleared at Westminster magistrates court of harassing Sophia Brooks on social media

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Graham Linehan 'proud to stand up to trans activists' after he's cleared of harassment but guilty of phone damage

Linehan is expected to appeal against his criminal damage conviction, his lawyer told the court

Evening Standard

Father Ted writer Graham Linehan cleared of harassing transgender activist

However, the 57-year-old was found guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court of criminal damage of Sophia Brooks’ mobile phone.

Evening Standard

Revealed: The 600,000 London homes that could be revalued under Budget 'mansion tax'

Homes in Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Camden, Barnet, Richmond, Wandsworth and Hammersmith and Fulham are in the Chancellor’s firing line

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'Red tape lunacy' to land London accountant with £16,000 bill to replace two windows in his ground floor flat

A Westminster councillor said the requirement to get sign-off from the Building Safety Regulator to change the windows is ‘ridiculous’

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Soho toilet called 'top cottaging spot in the UK' could become café

The Broadwick Street site opposite The Ivy was shut in 2021 due to repeated reports of sexual activity

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Police say 47 arrested after latest demo in support of banned Palestine Action

Defend Our Juries said demonstrators sat outside the Ministry of Justice building in Westminster on Thursday afternoon.

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Double blow for Starmer as Burnham refuses to rule out leadership challenge and PM popularity hits record low

Most Labour voters see the PM and Chancellor Rachel Reeves negatively (52% and 57% respectively), according to a new YouGov poll

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Burnham refuses to rule out challenging for Labour leadership

The mayor of Greater Manchester suggested questions over his leadership ambitions are part of the problem with Westminster culture.

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A guttural groan in an energy-free zone: sullen resignation haunts PMQs

Usually raucous backbenchers snoozed through the session as Keir and Kemi’s exchanges descended into a slanging match

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Tory crisis in London as second councillor defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at flagship town hall

Alan Mendoza on Wednesday joined Laila Cunningham as Reform’s second representative on Westminster Council

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Inside the 'tent village' in heart of London which dozens of rough sleepers are calling home

Around 20 tents pitched opposite Warren Street Tube station where rough sleepers are enduring the freezing cold

The Guardian - UK

‘I thought the grownups were back in charge!’: John Crace on how Labour shattered his expectations

After 14 years of Tory rule, the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer thought he had seen it all. Westminster would surely tick along nicely once Keir Starmer’s party took over. How wrong he was ...

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Westminster ‘sleepwalking into’ Scottish deindustrialisation – Stephen Flynn

Stephen Flynn criticised the Government’s decision not to step in, as the Fife Ethylene Plant winds down.

The Guardian - UK

Tories and Reform spout imaginary numbers as they fight for attention

Back-of-an envelope calculations by Kemi Badenoch, Mel Stride and Nigel Farage are nothing but political fever dreams

Evening Standard

Reject China's plan for mega-embassy in London as its spies target Parliament, Tories urge ministers

MI5 is warning MPs, peers, Government officials, parliamentary staff, economists and others with links to Westminster that they may be targeted by Beijing

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