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Tories give civil servants £30m vouchers from Argos to Primark - but no proper pay rise

The use of 'reward and recognition' vouchers for civil servants has surged as Tories dig in and refuse to negotiate a proper pay rise for staff, despite inflation soaring

Daily Mirror

Civil servants paid nearly £30 million in high-street vouchers despite pay freeze

Ministers have been accused of getting around their own pay freeze by handing out the vouchers, while refusing to discuss pay for nurses

Wales Online

Civil servants paid nearly £30 million in high-street vouchers amid pay freeze

A third more ‘reward and recognition’ vouchers were distributed in 2021-22 than in 2020-21 and two thirds more than in 2018-19.

The Independent UK

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Everything that's happened since commissioners came to Liverpool Council

The Government appointed officials are halfway through their three year stay

Liverpool Echo

Taking on the nurses is like punching David Attenborough — a truly awful look

Life inside a Whitehall department can be comically slow and sober — it makes a municipal library seem like the Berghain. When I worked in the Treasury yonks ago, the sleepy gentility of the place used to drive me a bit loopy.

Evening Standard

Sunak’s review of aid for Ukraine suggests cracks appearing in UK policy

The PM seems unwilling to deliver the big uplift in military help Kyiv needs to get ready for a possible Russian offensive

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak to meet UK troops in Estonia and attend Baltic summit

UK prime minister joins Nordic and Baltic leaders at summit on countering Russian aggression

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Barclay expected to urge fresh talks aimed at ending health strikes

RCN says talks must take place this week or more strikes will be tabled for new year, as ambulance staff prepare to walk out

The Guardian - UK

Dominic Raab’s MoJ hiring ‘embarrassing’ number of private office staff

Exclusive: Plan to recruit up to 10 people into senior roles seen as unusual and follows reports of bullying in the department

The Guardian - UK

Ex-Foreign Office adviser says aid cuts are ‘dreadful moral choice’

Stefan Dercon says aid budget is increasingly being tapped into to ‘plug holes’ in other Whitehall departments

The Guardian - UK

Third of staff allege bullying in Raab’s private office team

Exclusive: Leaked annual survey shows fourfold rise in harassment claims in justice ministers’ office

The Guardian - UK

International trade department should be shut down, says Brexiteer who set it up

UK ‘falling behind’ on trade in three years since Brexit, says Liam Fox

The Independent UK

Ministers hear call to reward armed forces for covering Christmas strikes

Conservative MP Richard Drax questioned the Government in the Commons over whether there are ‘any signs of some sort of reward or thank you’.

The Independent UK

Tory Steve Barclay to stub out plan to make Britain tobacco free by 2030

Whitehall sources say he is abandoning the scheme to raise the legal age for buying tobacco one year every year until no-one was able to buy cigarettes at all

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The Guardian - UK

Power to the people is a lovely idea, Gordon Brown, but you forgot about women

Labour’s vision of a new Britain ignores the issue of structural sex discrimination

The Independent UK

The staggering number of Brits who waited longer than 10 weeks for a passport this year

Whitehall watchdog warns slow waits could drag on into 2023

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s U-turn on windfarms reflects the Tories’ failure to protect rural England

As the Conservatives squabble over planning and housing targets, England’s countryside is being destroyed, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Liverpool Echo

Troubled Liverpool Council has 'turned a corner' says Mayor

Commissioners told the ECHO earlier this week they were 'much more confident' about city's fortunes

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The Guardian - UK

Think our plan to fix British politics is a pipe dream? Think again

Critics are already circling, but at a stroke Labour would clear out the rot from Westminster and give power to our regions, says former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown

Evening Standard

Brown’s report gives Starmer a chance to shift power from Whitehall

In 1912, Herbert Asquith, the Liberal Prime Minister, declared that reform of the House of Lords would “brook no delay”. Well, 110 years later, it seems to have managed to “brook” quite a lot.

Daily Record

Gordon Brown: Labour's plan for a New Britain is the only way forward for the country

The former Prime Minister writes exclusively for the Daily Record as he details Labour's plans for the future of the country.

The Independent UK

Labour plan for constitutional change disappoints supporters of electoral reform

Gordon Brown says package is ‘biggest transfer of power out of Westminster’ ever seen

Daily Record

Keir Starmer hits out at Nicola Sturgeon's plan to make next general election a 'de facto' indyref

Nicola Sturgeon pledged to make the next general election a single issue vote on independence after the Supreme Court ruled that Holyrood does not have the power to hold a second referendum.

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s devolution plans: regional inequality is a blight

Editorial: Britain is heading in the wrong direction, and radical change is needed in how money and power works

Daily Mirror

Six things in the small print of Keir Starmer's major announcement on UK's future

Keir Starmer today unveiled a 155-page report with 40 proposals on the future of Britain, written by ex-PM Gordon Brown. We look at the biggest things Labour could be promising that affect your life

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