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Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – UK politics live
Chancellor tells meeting of parliamentary Labour party there will be more difficult decisions to come Like the Telegraph (see 11.25am ), the Times has also published a new article with a Tory e...
No one cares who will lead the Tories next, not even them | John Crace
The Lucky Five are soon to become four as the contest limps on. Meanwhile, Victoria Atkins assists herself to an own goal Yet another day in the land of shadows. Where politics goes largely uns...
Politics Weekly Westminster: Winter fuel payments test for Labour – podcast
The Guardian’s Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey talk about Labour’s first big test in parliament over their winter fuel payments policy. Plus, will Keir Starmer’s trip to Washington be awkward...
Tory leadership contenders upset over 10-minute conference speech plan
Some campaigns say contest’s handling is disgraceful after insiders reveal they may get only brief time on stage UK POLITICS LIVE – LATEST UPDATES Conservative leadership contenders have c...
The Tory leadership race says it all about the trouble they... Jenrick, Badenoch, Stride: what a crew! | Geoffrey Wheatcroft
The party has faced crisis before, but this feels different. Financially and intellectually bereft, membership dwindling … it’s a battle for not much If the 1982 Falklands war was what the ...
Cleverly or Tugendhat would make best PM, poll on Tory leadership candidates shows
Conservative MPs’ ratings trail behind Starmer’s as second round of voting for contest to come on Tuesday Voters believe James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat are the Conservative leadership can...
Tory Covid contracts worth £15bn had corruption ‘red flags’, study finds
Findings by Transparency International UK point to ‘more than coincidence or incompetence’, says chief executive A landmark study has uncovered corruption “red flags” in government Covi...
The Guardian view on public libraries: these vital spaces provide much more than books | Editorial
Offering everything from coding clubs to company, they are more essential than ever as other services vanish When Liverpool’s Spellow Hub library was torched in this summer’s far-right rio...
Tory health reforms left UK open to Covid calamity, says top doctor’s report
Britain’s pandemic response was among the worst and the NHS had been ‘seriously weakened’, says leading surgeon Three reports lay bare scale of NHS malaise, but will Reeves fund a remedy? ...
James Cleverly’s ‘likability’ boosts runoff chances in Tory leadership race
The shadow home secretary’s allies say his charm and lack of political enemies could win him cross-party support Allies of James Cleverly believe his “likability factor” will now hand him...
Gavin Williamson to face Covid inquiry over impact of school closures
Then education secretary faced repeated calls to resign over school and exam procedures during pandemic A former education secretary widely derided for his leadership of the department during t...
Robert Jenrick’s heartlessness can’t be glossed over | Brief letters
Tory leadership race | Grenfell inquiry | Knotting shoelaces | Margaret Thatcher’s portrait It’s beginning to look as if the Tories may elect as their leader Robert Jenrick (Report, 5 Septe...
Greens to push Labour for wealth tax to fund public services
Co-leader kicks off party conference by saying chancellor is ‘not looking in the right place’ for money UK politics live – latest updates Keir Starmer’s government is “not looking in...
Eric Pickles urged to quit as Tory peer over Grenfell inquiry criticism
Emma Dent Coad, who was Kensington MP at time of fire, says former housing secretary should ‘have grace to resign’ Eric Pickles, the former housing secretary, is facing calls to quit as a T...
The Guardian view on the House of Lords: ending inherited power is the right thing to do | Editorial
It has taken a few hundred years for British politics to rid itself of the hereditary principle. Better late than never Britain and Lesotho share the unenviable distinction of being the only t...
Robert Jenrick emerges as surprise frontrunner in Tory leadership race
Jenrick raises £250,000 in funds and leads in polls ahead of Kemi Badenoch, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat Robert Jenrick is outgunning his Tory leadership rivals with big donors after rakin...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/05/robert-jenrick-frontrunner-tory-leadership
Tories think being weird makes them interesting, but it just makes them weird | John Crace
The general election loss should have given Tory leadership hopefuls pause. Instead they’re doubling down on the oddness The sound of silence. After more than a decade of Tory governments, ma...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/sep/05/tories-not-interesting-just-weird
Simply ‘smashing the gangs’ will not stop Channel crossing deaths | Letters
JOHN MORRISON says Labour’s mistake has been to follow the Conservatives in suggesting that one big idea will solve a complex issue The latest tragic deaths in the small boats crisis (Six chi...
Starmer and Reeves need to find ‘escape route’ from winter fuel payments row, says Ed Balls – as it happened
Former Labour shadow chancellor says ministers need to find a way to stop controversy over means testing destabilising government STEVE REED, the environment secretary, has given a speech this ...
Oil firms vow to fight judicial review of North Sea oil and gas projects
Shell and Equinor say they will defend Jackdaw and Rosebank plans after Labour withdraws government support Two of Europe’s biggest oil companies have vowed to fight two legal cases brought b...