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Labour revives Northern Powerhouse Rail project with pledge of £45bn funds

Plan will start with TransPennine upgrade with new line connecting Liverpool and Manchester in second phase

The Guardian - UK

Energy and health optimism help lift civil service morale under Labour

Foreign Office and MoD among only four departments with declining morale in annual Whitehall monitor report

The Guardian - UK

Here’s why Labour is struggling to deliver: the British state is immense, but pull the levers and nothing happens

At home, the machinery of government creaks badly – abroad, a leaden UK lags far behind dynamic competitors. A radical overhaul is needed, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

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Porton Down shake-up harming critical national security science, whistleblower warns

Senior insider says ‘limbo’ at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory has hit morale and disrupted vital research

The Guardian - UK

Downing Street has only itself to blame for lack of grip on Whitehall, say experts

Ex-No 10 adviser Paul Ovenden says ‘political perma-class’ has distracted government, but critics argue ministers already have power to act

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer's Ex-Aide Reveals Alaa Abd El-Fattah Was Whitehall 'Running Joke'—Here's Why

Former advisor Paul Ovenden criticizes UK government's focus on Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah, revealing internal skepticism and highlighting lobbying influence over foreign policy.

International Business Times UK

Whitehall Officials Will 'Bug Phones' To Smash Nigel Farage, Dominic Cummings Claims

Dominic Cummings claims Whitehall officials plan 'dirty tricks' against Nigel Farage. Explore the establishment's fears and Reform's path to power in 2026.

International Business Times UK

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Blair’s advertising guru slams Starmer’s lack of plan to tackle rise of Farage’s Reform

Chris Powell said having no strategy against Reform UK was ‘potentially suicidal for our freedom and democracy’

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on hard times for Britain’s charities: struggling to do more with less

Editorial: Over the holiday period, the Guardian leader column is looking ahead at the themes of 2026. Today, the challenges facing the voluntary sector as it attempts to cope with an ongoing funding crisis

The Guardian - UK

Tommy Robinson says he found Jesus in prison. Churches disagree about how to respond

C of E faces dilemma as far right claims Christianity to push agenda that often clashes with gospel message

The Guardian - UK

Labour U-turns on farmer inheritance tax after tractor protests

Ministers on Tuesday announced watered down plans for an inheritance tax increase for farmers, raising the threshold to 100% relief from £1 million to £2.5 million

Evening Standard

Labour is procrastinating over policy as UK’s economy goes backwards

New business rates regime that is poised to hit pubs and hotels is latest example of hasty decision-making

The Guardian - UK

What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives

More than £3bn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Labour wants to ramp up facial recognition. What if our data ends up in the wrong hands?

We know from recent hacks, and even the Snowden revelations, how vulnerable information gathered is to theft and misuse, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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How the standoff between Rachel Reeves and the OBR unfolded

Treasury’s independent economic forecaster says outlook for economy rosier than chancellor led everyone to believe

International Business Times UK

'You Cannot Treat Our Farmers Like This in Britain': Tax-Protesting Farmers Bring Tractors to the Streets, Get Arrested

British farmers protesting inheritance tax were met with police restrictions and arrests for bringing tractors into central London, as tensions surged over budget changes affecting family farms.

The Guardian - UK

How Rachel Reeves’s budget was leaked 40 minutes early

By the time the chancellor reached the dispatch box, the OBR had accidentally published its verdict in full online

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s plan to slash jury trials will create more miscarriages of justice, say critics

Leading barrister and pressure groups say move would lead to more unfairness for Black, Asian and minority ethnic defendants

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David Lammy considers scrapping jury trials for all but the most serious cases

Senior lawyers criticise justice secretary’s radical plan for England and Wales, saying it could ‘destroy justice as we know it’

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump to send envoy to Russia - but will only meet Putin and Zelensky when deal is final

Trump says the countries are ‘very close’ to a peace deal as Russian strikes target Zaporizhzhia

The Conversation

Poor heart health in middle age linked to dementia in old age – new study

For generations, medicine treated the heart and brain as separate domains. However, a new study suggests the two are more closely connected than we thought, especially as we age.

The Conversation

Why have relations between civil servants and ministers turned so sour – and can they be repaired?

There is increasingly bad blood between ministers and civil servants in the UK government. The trend has been apparent for at least a decade, with the mood between officials and ministers darkening during the Conservative administrations of Theresa May and Boris Johnson, fuelled by conflict over Brexit.

Evening Standard

Post-Brexit rules ‘something you wouldn’t make up unless you had to’

Former NI secretary Lord Paul Murphy said that people ‘didn’t think enough’ about the consequences for Northern Ireland when they voted for Brexit.

Evening Standard

Hiding money away in overseas territories starves Treasury, warns MP

Phil Brickell will call for Whitehall clarity over ministers’ efforts to tackle financial secrecy in the British Overseas Territories.

International Business Times UK

Reform UK Vows to Purge 'Woke Whitehall' in Trump-Style Shake-Up — 140,000 Civil Service Roles at Risk

Reform UK's new plan could cut up to 140,000 civil service jobs and rewrite neutrality rules in a Trump-style bid to reshape Whitehall.

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