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'Like shouting into the abyss': Andy Burnham describes dealing with Boris Johnson

The Greater Manchester Mayor has given a withering assessment of the Prime Minister as he prepares to step down

Manchester Evening News

Philip Hammond’s consultancy firm made almost £1m in profit

Filings cover period ex-chancellor worked for controversial clients including Saudi government

The Guardian - UK

Mayor says government should let Liverpool solve its own problems

Joanne Anderson said government officers' presence was impacting the workforce

Liverpool Echo

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Commissioners deliver damning verdict on progress at Liverpool Council

Finances, contracts and management have come under fire

Liverpool Echo

Government taking over all finance and governance powers at Liverpool Council

Exclusive: Levelling Up Secretary confirms effective government takeover of troubled city council - and launches strategic panel to guide city forward chaired by Steve Rotheram

Liverpool Echo

Cyclists could be made to have registration plates and insurance – report

Whitehall review is also said to suggest cycling speed limits, along with licence penalty points and fines

The Guardian - UK

The Northern Agenda: The estate where children are struggling to breathe

A two-year-old boy died in Rochdale after being exposed to damp and mould

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Government plan to cut civil servants’ redundancy pay ‘add insult to injury’, says union

Ministers want ‘job cuts on the cheap’, says PCS union – as Rishi Sunak attacks ‘bloated’ state

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak pledges to axe civil service jobs in shake up of ‘bloated’ post covid state

Tory leadership challenger warns senior civil servants they will be required to work outside London as he tries to re-ignite his campaign

Evening Standard

Sunak commits to Civil Service cuts as part of plan for Whitehall ‘shake-up’

The former chancellor said the ‘bloated post-Covid state is in need of a shake-up’.

The Independent UK

Ministers planning to cut civil servant redundancy pay at same time as 91,000 jobs

Exclusive: Unions warn proposal to reduce payouts by a quarter as headcount shrinks could lead to industrial action

The Guardian - UK

UK treatment of Afghan refugees ‘continues to be source of shame’

MoD sources accuse other parts of Whitehall of failing to do enough to help Afghans who worked with British forces

The Guardian - UK

Anger as 66% of Tory Levelling Up staff are based in LONDON - with just 3% in North East

Only 2.4% – 82 people – work for the department in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland combined despite the government's department's mission to spread “opportunity and prosperity around the UK”

Daily Mirror

The threat of nationalisation looms if a deal can’t be done — inside the bitter battle for TfL

Government bailouts have come with untenable strings, claim TfL bosses, but without them the service faces nationalisation. Would London Mayor Sadiq Khan really be willing to risk it? Ross Lydall reports

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Public services need another £44bn by 2025 to cope with inflation, says IFS

Severe cuts to services feared as rising costs absorb a big chunk of increased departmental spending

The Independent UK

Liz Truss refuses to commit to more cost-of-living support if she becomes PM

The Tory leadership contender said tax cuts are her priority to kick-start the economy.

Wales Online

Enough is Enough – Organisers behind the campaign for more Government action on cost-of-living crisis

150,000 people sign up to new pressure group in first 24 hours

The Independent UK

Plans to slash 91,000 civil service jobs ‘would need cuts to major frontline services’

Proposal would also cost country more than £1bn in redundancy payments, review finds

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The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak would target Whitehall savings to fund cost-of-living winter help

The former chancellor announced the approach as his leadership rival Liz Truss maintained she is committed to helping struggling families.

The Guardian - UK

Plan to axe 91,000 civil servants ‘only possible with cuts to services’

Review casts doubt on Boris Johnson’s claim that frontline services would not be harmed

The National (Scotland)

Government 'goes cold' on Boris Johnson civil servant cuts plan after huge cost revealed

A WHITEHALL review into Boris Johnson’s plans to axe as many as 91,000 civil servants over three years has led the Treasury to “go cold” after…

The Guardian - UK

Labour attacks ‘zombie government’ as Boris Johnson returns from holiday

PM criticised for nearly week-long break in Slovenia after 15 Whitehall consultations left unanswered

The Guardian - UK

Public don’t want tax cuts Truss and Sunak are promising, poll reveals

As the Tory leadership hopefuls clash over when to reduce taxes, the public are more concerned with maintaining funding

Daily Mirror

Only two out of five staff at 'Britain's FBI' think they have tools to do job

Labour analysed a poll of civil servants to find out how many were satisfied they had tools necessary to perform their roles effectively

The Independent UK

Truss U-turn on regional pay for public sector workers: how it happened

Details of the plan to slash £8.8 billion were unveiled in a press release on Monday but scrapped on Tuesday.

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