63 m. ago Starmer braces for rebellion over welfare cuts as Labour accused of ‘pushing disabled people into poverty’

Labour backbencher warns of ‘deep, deep concern’ from colleagues over planned cuts

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1 hour ago Labour shares how households can get £250 off energy bills as it pushes ahead with planning drive

Only households affected by changes will be eligible for the funds

Economics

2 h. ago Reeves's plan to cut welfare triggers a Labour revolt: Sickness benefits claimants face health checks and long

Labour MPs have been warning of 'deep concern' over 'draconian' curbs with details expected to be announced as soon as tomorrow.

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9 h. ago Labour AI plans are unbalanced and rushed, says world's biggest music publishers Sony

Sony, the world's biggest music publisher, has attacked UK Government plans to allow a copyright exemption for AI as 'rushed, unbalanced and irreversible', the Daily Mail can reveal.

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11 h. ago English and Welsh councils to have greater powers to seize land for affordable housing

Exclusive: Compulsory purchase orders will no longer need Whitehall permission under shake-up of planning rulesCouncils and mayors will be granted greater powers to seize land to build affordable housing under the Labour government’s shake-up of planning rules this week.Local authorities in England and Wales will no longer need permission from central government to make compulsory purchase orders (CPOs), in a change that ministers hope will unlock vacant and derelict land. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago EV charging points made cheaper and faster to install under Labour’s rapid deregulation plans

Exclusive: Businesses and communities will no longer have to get permission from councils to set up electric vehicle charge points

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12 h. ago Keir Starmer hopes to finalise a peacekeeping plan for Ukraine this week

The Prime Minister (left) will continue his diplomatic push in a bid to reach a more 'concrete' blueprint for peace which can be presented to Washington.

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12 h. ago Labour set to slash number of official bodies that get a say in planning decisions in bid to unlock more development

The Government will consult on removing Sport England, the Theatres Trust and the Garden History Society from the list of 'statutory consultees'.

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34 h. ago Labour to slash red tape for planning projects in bid to meet its target of building 1.5million homes by 2029

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner will lay out reforms intended to speed up the planning process, including reducing the number of organisations required to comment on planning applications.

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36 h. ago Around 100 schools could be forced to close under Labour's plans to impose VAT on private schools

Treasury Minister Torsten Bell put a figure on the effect of the tax hike for the first time. A dozen schools have already shut, or intend to close, since January, blaming the levy.

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36 h. ago Unions on alert as Labour prepares to unveil ‘Trumpian’ plan for civil service

Performance-related pay, exit process for poor performers and more digitalisation among proposed measures intended to revolutionise WhitehallHighly controversial plans to revolutionise Whitehall by introducing performance-related pay, an accelerated exit process for under-performing mandarins and more digitalisation will be announced this week in what ministers say is a programme to “reshape the state” so it can respond to a new “era of insecurity”.The proposed changes, to be announced by Cabinet Office minister Pat McFadden, will inevitably provoke alarm and resistance from civil service unions, and be seen as the government using the current wave of global uncertainty as cover to drive through radical modernisation of civil service methods and culture. Continue reading...

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46 h. ago ‘Major brand worries’: Just how toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla?

With sales down and electric vehicle rivals catching up, the rightwing politico’s brand is driving into a stormGlobally renowned brands would not, ordinarily, want to be associated with Germany’s far-right opposition. But Tesla, one of the world’s biggest corporate names, does not have a conventional chief executive.After Elon Musk backed Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) – calling the party Germany’s “only hope” – voters are considering an alternative to Tesla. Data released on Thursday showed that registrations of the company’s electric cars in Germany fell 76% to 1,429 last month. Overall, electric vehicle registrations rose by 31%. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago We live next to Gatwick and are terrified we'll have our homes ripped from beneath our feet and demolished so Rachel Reeves can build her second runway

Crawley residents have blasted the Labour government which last week signalled that the plans would be approved, if environmental concerns could be met.

Society

53 h. ago Call for more equality, diversity and inclusion in the media, creative and cultural sectors

Amid increasing challenges across the world’s biggest economies in the drive to create more inclusive and equal workplaces, a new report finds that issues persist in Scotland’s media, creative and cultural sectors.

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55 h. ago Who are the Sidemen? KSI and fellow YouTube stars profiled before Wembley charity match

YouTubers take over a sold-out Wembley Stadium on Saturday afternoon, as the 2025 Sidemen Charity Match kicks off featuring a number of the world's biggest content creators – but who are the Sidemen?

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57 h. ago Labour press on with 'war on rural England' as councillors face being stripped of powers to block planning schemes under plans to push through developments

Labour's war on rural England seems set to continue as new planning regulations look to remove powers of objection from rural local councils and instead hand more control to developers.

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67 h. ago Labour accused of 'capitulating' to tech giants and 'betraying our children' after plans to ban smartphones in schools are scrapped

Proposed legislation, known as the Safer Phones Bill, has been introduced to Parliament by Labour backbencher Josh McAlister.

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2 d. ago Day two of Crufts sees the world's glossiest dogs strutting their stuff

The second day of the world's biggest dog show saw hundreds of dogs and their owners descend this morning on Birmingham's NEC - with hopeful pets dressed to the nines.

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3 d. ago SpaceX loses control of Starship in latest test of world’s biggest rocket

Elon Musk’s Mars ambitions suffer new setback following latest failure

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3 d. ago Lady Gaga: Mayhem review – a fabulous return to her freaky first principles

(Interscope)After some noteworthy musical and cinematic misfires, Gaga gets back to her core themes of sex, sleaze and celebrity on an album that sounds not retro, but relevantLady Gaga’s single Abracadabra is enjoying its fifth consecutive week in the UK Top 10. You can imagine a collective sigh of relief chez Gaga: she has been experiencing what you might call a case of career sea sickness, in which unadulterated commercial triumphs have been followed by very public flops. In the credit column, there’s Die With a Smile, a power-ballad duet with Bruno Mars that went to No 1 in 28 countries and spent 10 weeks as the world’s biggest-selling single. (Released last August, it also appears on Mayhem.) In the debit, there was her starring role in the disastrous Joker: Folie à Deux, a film that was estimated to have lost Warner Brothers something in the region of $150m (£116m), and which seemed to take both the Gaga-heavy soundtrack and her own, jazz-based “companion album” Harlequin down...

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