2 hours ago Minister: Tory MPs should Shake It Off when it comes to Taylor Swift questions

Conservative MP Chris Philp asked the Government to ‘come clean and tell the truth’ over the police escort arrangements for Swift.

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2 hours ago Starmer 'faces Red revolt on austerity Budget': Angela Rayner leads Labour ministers demanding to keep spending despite Chancellor's apocalyptic warnings over huge 'black hole' in public finances

Ministers including Angela Rayner are believed to have lobbied the PM after being told by the Treasury that they need curb costs.

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3 hours ago Pressure on Keir Starmer to rethink Rwanda plan axe as EU set to sign off migrant processing 'hubs' in third countries

Migration will dominate an EU leaders' summit in Brussels today, after European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen called for 'innovative ways to counter' it.

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4 hours ago Ministers have to make ‘tough choices’ says Phillipson amid Budget backlash

The Education Secretary said there will be ‘no return to austerity’ but ‘all of us have some really tough choices to make’.

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5 hours ago Cabinet ministers angry at Budget cuts being demanded by Rachel Reeves told: We all face tough choices

But Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted there would be no return to austerity

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6 hours ago Keir Starmer facing cabinet revolt over Budget spending cuts of up to 20%

Senior ministers are pushing back against cuts as Rachel Reeves finalises her first Budget as chancellor

Economics

6 hours ago Cabinet ministers angry at cuts being demanded by Rachel Reeves told: We all face tough choices

But Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson insisted there would be no return to austerity

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8 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now I can answer: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

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8 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now we know: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

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