8 minutes ago UK politics live: Badenoch refuses to commit to reversing rise in employers’ national insurance in speech at CBI

Tory leader says she will not ‘comment on every bit of micro-policy’Q: Are you feeling the pressure? There is a petition signed by 2 million people calling for another election.Starmer says he is not surprised that people who did not support Labour in the first place want the election to be re-run. But that is not how the system worked.I’m not surprised, quite frankly, that as we’re doing the tough stuff, there are plenty of people who say, ‘Well, I’m impacted.’I think anybody who’s turned around an organisation or a business will tell you, and they’re right, if you’re really going to turn something around, you have to do the hard yards upfront. Don’t look at a tough decision and then leave it for a year or two.So we’re doing the tough stuff. But in the budget, which is probably the tou...

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15 minutes ago London council apologises for overcharging mother for care after family told of £7,000 debt

Woman’s daughter raised alarm after telling Kingston Council she was not aware family had fallen into arrears of more than £7,000

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16 minutes ago Britain and France are 'not ruling out' sending troops to Ukraine as part of European coalition to support war effort amid fears Trump could pull US military aid to Kyiv, French report claims

Discussions on sending troops from Western armies and private defence companies have been 'reactivated', Le Monde reports, after Macron faced opposition over the suggestion.

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16 minutes ago Loose Women reveals huge show first as Charlene White shares 'biggest ever announcement'

Loose Women will be broadcast live for 25 consecutive hours in December as the ITV show looks to help support people and encourage them to talk about mental health

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18 minutes ago Ed Sheeran admits he feels 'a bit of a b****nd' after he awkwardly interrupted new Man United boss Ruben Amorim's post

Pop megastar Sheeran, an Ipswich fan who sponsors the club's kit and owns a minority stake in the club of 1.4 per cent, stated that he wasn't aware that Amorim was being interviewed.

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28 minutes ago Ding Liren beats Gukesh Dommaraju in World Chess Championship 2024 Game 1 – as it happened

Ding wins Game 1 when Gukesh resigns after 42 movesExplainer: all your pre-match questions, answeredOur 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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29 minutes ago Revealed: What the disgruntled Ipswich fan was really arguing with Roy Keane about... as an insider opens up on the pitch

The details behind Roy Keane's heated exchange with an Ipswich supporter have come to light, with the disgruntled fan lashing out at the ex-United captain over a past encounter.

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31 minutes ago I'm glad we got a deal at Cop29 – but western nations stood in the way of a much better one | Mukhtar Babayev

My negotiating team tried in vain to push up support for the global south. Lessons must be learned before the next summit in BrazilMukhtar Babayev is president of the Cop29 UN climate change conferenceChina was willing to offer more in climate finance, says Cop29 presidentNine years after the Paris agreement, and after 11 months of multilateral diplomacy and two weeks of the most intense negotiations at Cop29 in Baku, we have a deal. Under the terms of the Baku breakthrough, the world’s industrialised nations will provide $300bn (£240bn), which, combined with resources from multilateral lending institutions and the private sector will reach $1.3tn in climate financing this year. Cop29 also finalised, after years of failed attempts, a global framework for international carbon markets tra...

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39 minutes ago Save our Sekforde: Clerkenwell pub calls on Londoners for support after complaints threaten future

One of Clerkenwell’s best-loved pubs faces pressure from complaining neighbours, which it says threatens its “viability as an ongoing business”

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50 minutes ago Ruben Amorim sent 'b***end' message by Ed Sheeran as pop star apologises

Ipswich Town supporter Ed Sheeran has broken his silence after gatecrashing Manchester United boss Ruben Amorim's post match interview with Sky Sports

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