20 minutes ago UK politics live: Rachel Reeves to defend Budget to CBI after stark warning over tax rises

The chancellor is expected to tell the group there was ‘no alternative’ to tax rises

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29 minutes ago UK politics live: vote on assisted dying bill impossible to predict, says minister

Jess Phillips says ‘we do not know how this vote is going to go’ with the views of many MPs still unclearGood morning. There is plenty happening today. Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, and Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, are both speaking at the CBI conference, where the CBI chief executive Rain Newton-Smith is warning about the impact of the budget on business. Keir Starmer is hosting a meeting at Downing Street about plans to protect women from spiking. “My government was elected on a pledge to take back our streets, and we will never achieve this if women and girls do not feel safe at night,” he says. There will be tributes to John Prescott in the Commons this afternoon. But one issue is going to dominate the week, the vote on the assisted dying bill on Friday, and already that...

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31 minutes ago Businesses go to war with Labour: Half of CBI members are looking to cut jobs after monster Budget tax raid

The CBI is using its conference to sound the alarm on the £25billion hike to employer National Insurance.

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31 minutes ago Ding Liren v Gukesh Dommaraju: World Chess Championship 2024 Game 1 – live updates

Ding and Gukesh face off for $2.5m in SingaporeExplainer: all your pre-match questions, answeredBluesky Bryan at @BryanAGraham or email himOur Leonard Barden has filed his final dispatch ahead of today’s opening game. Barden, who’s written the Guardian’s chess column every week since September 1955, doesn’t divert from the general consensus in his assessment of the match.The preliminaries are nearly over: who will win? I expect Gukesh to be cautious in the first few games, then to probe and push hard in the middle of the match. Ding’s 2024 form has been so wretched that it is difficult to see how he can keep his title. A 7.5-4.5 margin for Gukesh looks about right. Continue reading...

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46 minutes ago FTSE 100 Live 25 November: Kingfisher slides after update, dollar lower on US Treasury pick

Kingfisher shares are down sharply after the B&Q owner warned of tougher trading conditions in the UK and France.

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50 minutes ago DWP confirms State Pensioners born in these years to get Winter Fuel increase

The Winter Fuel Payment will automatically be paid into the bank accounts of qualifying persons - but the exact amount will be higher for those of a certain age

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86 minutes ago 20 years since Labour banned fox hunting but why are meets still taking place?

Two decades since The Hunting Act (2004) gained royal assent there are claims the pursuits continue. Labour has pledged to ban trail hunting which it said "allows the illegal hunting of foxes, deer, and hares."

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89 minutes ago Jaguar's director for woke hypocrisy! He's been accused of destroying one of Britain's most iconic brands in all

A social media photo shared by the executive's husband shows the iconic vehicle - which costs up to £150,000 new - parked on the drive of their £925,000 house in Milton Keynes.

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1 hour ago Who is really escalating the war in Ukraine? It certainly isn’t the west | James Nixey

The policy of the US and Europe remains the same: drip-feeding resources while never giving Ukraine the chance to push Russia outJames Nixey leads the Russia-Eurasia programme at Chatham HouseEven for a country that has been at war for more than 1,000 days, the past month has been rough for Ukraine: its nemesis, Russia, has acquired 11,000 troops from North Korea and mercenaries from Yemen to assist in its project to delete Ukraine. Russia has also pulverised Ukraine’s energy grid with renewed ferocity as temperatures fall below freezing and fired off experimental intermediate-range weaponry, and it continues to make gains in the east. As if that weren’t enough, Russia’s preferred candidate has been elected as the American president, promising to end the war in “24 hours” – and not in U...

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1 hour ago See the light pour through: how art can free us from the exhaustion of smartphone addiction

As tech giants hook us into endless scrolling, we are becoming less engaged, less creative, less connected, less human. Art reminds us to look outwards at the things that truly matterHow often do you look up at the sky, rather than down at the black mirror on which you might be reading this column? Will you read to the end of this page? How many tabs have you opened today? If you’re on a train, how many people are interacting with fellow humans rather than looking at their phones? I am not one to judge. I am as addicted to the dopamine hit as anyone. But lately, with the world becoming more disillusioned and divided, it seems more urgent than ever to look outwards rather than in, and to pay attention in the most valuable ways.I was reminded of this when seeing Bed Rot, a tapestry by US-...

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