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UK politics live: Badenoch blasts Starmer and Farage in benefits row as Rayner gives winter fuel U-turn update

Angela Rayner has suggested details on when winter fuel payments could be restored to more pensioners could be announced within a few weeks

The Independent UK

Developers face fines as Rayner steps up plans to speed up housebuilding

Councils in England will get powers to impose ‘delayed home penalty’ under latest government proposals

The Guardian - UK

New rules could see housebuilders who leave sites unfinished stripped of land

Developers will have to submit annual reports showing their progress.

The Independent UK

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Inside Labour plot to oust Keir Starmer as PM is given 12 months to turn things around

SPECIAL REPORT: This week’s dramatic winter fuel U-turn has not been enough to stop speculation about the future of Starmer as leader, as political editor David Maddox found out

The Independent UK

Voices: Angela Rayner is the Gordon Brown of this government

COMMENT: The deputy prime minister is serious about her ambition but, like Brown, she will have to wait, says John Rentoul

The Independent UK

Voices: What Rayner’s crackdown on child benefit will really mean for middle-class mums like me

COMMENT: A leaked government memo reveals that Angela Rayner wants to stop child benefit handouts to middle-class mums. The trouble is, says Charlotte Cripps, many on her hit list might have middle-class backgrounds but can no longer match them economically

The Independent UK

Voices: After the winter fuel decision, Labour is now openly at war with itself

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: Far from defusing the growing unrest within his party, the prime minister’s U-turn has emboldened backbenchers to demand even more sweeteners, says Andrew Grice

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Angela Rayner pushed for middle-class families to lose child benefit, leaked memo reveals

The latest revelation about the deputy prime minister points to tensions behind the scenes in the Labour cabinet

The Independent UK

Is Angela Rayner positioning herself for a Starmer succession race?

Whoever leaked deputy PM’s memo to the Telegraph, some believe it will have helped her leadership chances

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Starmer’s U-turn: change direction – or keep losing support

Editorial: Labour’s pivot to welfare cuts and targeting of rightwing voters has backfired. If the party leadership won’t adapt, the public will move on

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Well done, Rishi – you handed Keir Starmer his immigration ‘win’ on a plate

COMMENT: By taking office just as net migration was passing its peak, the prime minister has been a lucky general, says John Rentoul – but there is more than meets the eye in new figures showing it has halved in a year

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner wanted migrant benefits cut in latest pushback against Reeves, leaked memo suggests

The leak appears to be the latest in a briefing campaign against the deputy prime minister, who has pushed back on Labour’s economic policies

The Independent UK

Labour does a major U-turn but does Clueless Kemi even notice?

The leader of the opposition missed the openest of open goals after Keir Starmer reversed cuts to winter fuel payments

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Angela Rayner’s soak-the-rich tax plans show what a smart operator she is

COMMENT: Once again, the deputy prime minister has proved that it is she – and not Keir Starmer – who is the force to be reckoned with in Labour, says John Rentoul

The Independent UK

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Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves in 'open warfare' on tax

ANGELA Rayner pushed for a new tax raid on savers in a secret memo sent to Rachel Reeves, it has been revealed

The Guardian - UK

First workers were disappointed in Labour – now they’re angry. To understand why, visit Birmingham

Ministers are targeting low-paid bin workers while cosseting billionaires. Supporters could not be more disillusioned, says Unite general secretary Sharon Graham

Evening Standard

Starmer indicates partial U-turn over winter fuel payments squeeze

Sir Keir Starmer told MPs he wanted more pensioners to be eligible for the payment after Labour’s decision to means-test it after coming into office.

Evening Standard

Cabinet in ‘open warfare’ over tax and MPs can’t trust Starmer, says Badenoch

The Tory leader said deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is ‘on manoeuvres’ and asked how MPs could ever trust Sir Keir after a U-turn on fuel cuts.

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Evening Standard

Starmer to look at making more pensioners eligible for winter fuel allowance

The Prime Minister has faced pressure to change course over the squeeze on benefits.

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: No 10 won’t say if fuel payments U-turn will be implemented in time for this winter – as it happened

Downing Street unable to say how many more pensioners would receive winter fuel payments or when changes would come in

The Independent UK

Report: Leaked memo shows Rayner wanted tax rises

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The Guardian - UK

Rayner urged Reeves to consider wealth tax rises before spring statement

Memo from deputy PM to chancellor proposing eight potential measures highlights unease over spending plans

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner proposed array of tax rises in 'secret memo' to Rachel Reeves

Deputy Prime Minister set out proposals to reinstate the pensions lifetime allowance and change dividend taxes in the secret memo

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner said to have suggested reinstating the pensions lifetime allowance and changing dividend taxes in leaked memo

Evening Standard

Rayner ‘sent suggestions to Reeves on raising taxes ahead of spring statement’

The Chancellor has been adamant she will not turn to tax rises as part of the Government’s efforts to fund its policies.

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