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NHS set to receive 4% budget rise but health chiefs say it may not be enough

Whitehall source says it would only allow NHS to ‘stand still’ on waiting lists rather than reduce them

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves to push forward with £3bn sickness benefits cut in Budget

Charities warned cuts proposed by the Tories would have a ‘devastating impact’ on disabled people

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer’s warning to ministers after cabinet Budget row erupts

Angela Rayner leads revolt against ‘huge’ spending cuts in Rachel Reeves’s Budget

The Independent UK

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Ministers to give magistrates in England and Wales more sentencing powers

Exclusive: Plan to cut backlogs by doubling maximum term from six to 12 months was tried before by Tories

The Guardian - UK

Brexit reset with EU will trigger worldwide ‘arms race’ to give UK better deals, Starmer told

Labour prime minister has promised to fix Britain’s damaged relationship with the European Union

The Independent UK

Alex Salmond: The man who taught me political journalism is a contact sport – well before Donald Trump

News analysis: Both The Independent’s political editor David Maddox and Whitehall editor Kate Devlin were Scottish politics reporters at the height of Alex Salmond’s powers. David writes about the political giant he knew with memories from Kate

The Independent UK

How Labour promises have left Rachel Reeves with a giant budget headache

Frustration grows with chancellor locked away in Treasury and facing competing challenges for her historic speech

The Guardian - UK

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Foreign Office ‘asked for UK visit by Taiwan ex-president to be deferred’ to not anger China

Exclusive: Request to postpone Tsai Ing-wen’s trip came before ‘goodwill visit’ to China by David Lammy next week

The Guardian - UK

The chaos at Keir Starmer’s No 10 isn’t just political gossip – but there’s a way for him to fix it

Sue Gray out, Morgan McSweeney in, Simon Case to leave … the churn highlights how vital the right staff are to any PM’s success, says author Anthony Sneldon

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves considers raising capital gains tax to 39%

Exclusive: Rates of 33% to 39% being tested as Treasury source says tax-raising plans are in ‘complete disarray’

The Guardian - UK

UK campaigners call for tobacco windfall tax and yearly levy on ‘lethal trade’

Rachel Reeves urged to levy ‘double whammy’ on firms’ £1bn annual profits to fund measures to end smoking

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - All-out nuclear war is inching closer — and now it could take place in space

Once again there is a lot of loose talk about the possibility, and practicality of nuclear war — in northern Europe, the Middle East, and maybe even the United States. “There is serious concern now that the old theories of deterrence are failing, and nuclear war is now a viable…

Evening Standard

Treasury asking ministers to draw up billions of pounds of infrastructure cuts

Exclusive: departments asked to model cuts of up to 10% despite Rachel Reeves’ vow to invest in growth

The Guardian - UK

University tuition fees ‘could hit £10,500 a year’ under new government plans

Whitehall source says current university system is ‘unsustainable’, according to reports

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Labour’s policy on non-doms mostly copied from Conservatives, say Whitehall sources

Rachel Reeves said to have dismissed concerns about policy, even though it contained ‘basic errors’

The Independent UK

Union furious with Labour ministers over briefings against top mandarin Simon Case

Keir Starmer’s government is facing a clash with the civil service union after ministers briefed against Whitehall's top mandarin.

The Guardian - UK

Reeves could change fiscal rules to allow more capital spending, say sources

Chancellor tells conference she will ‘look at the value and benefits of investment and not just the costs’

The Independent UK

Cabinet ministers tell Keir Starmer he must immediately remove top civil servant to regain his authority

Exclusive: Ministers have lost patience with the UK’s top civil servant Simon Case and one accused him of ‘poisoning the well of government’ with off-record briefings

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Evening Standard

Majority of Britons want deposit added to drinks cans to boost recycling rates, poll shows

The majority Britons want the government to press ahead with a scheme that would see a deposit added to the price of drinks containers to boost recycling rates, a new poll has revealed.

The Guardian - UK

Rewrite ‘victim-blaming’ drink-spiking campaign, UK civil servants told

Minister tells Labour conference delegates that Whitehall should focus on stopping perpetrators

The National (Scotland)

Angela Rayner pledges 'devolution revolution' in Labour conference speech

ANGELA Rayner has outlined plans for a “devolution revolution” as she pledged to end “northerners being dictated to by Whitehall”.

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting yet to meet pledge to hold cross-party talks on social care crisis

Lib Dems and Tories say health secretary has failed to reach out to them for ideas on a solution, despite declaring he wanted to do so in the summer

The Guardian - UK

‘Scam and scandal’: ex-aid chief raises alarm over £4bn Tory asylum contracts

The former top civil servant at the Department for International Development has warned a lack of oversight in spending echoes corrupt contracts awarded during Covid

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Rachel Reeves must focus on growth, not just doom

Round numbers should be no more interesting or enlightening than any other. But the revelation that Britain’s debt has hit 100 per cent of GDP is unlikely to lift the sense of gloom that has already settled above Whitehall.

The Guardian - UK

Why is Sue Gray at the centre of a new political storm?

Keir Starmer’s chief of staff is being paid a larger salary than the prime minister, it has emerged. But there’s also more to the story

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