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No 10 dismissed ‘songster of tennis lawns’ Sir John Betjeman as poet laureate

Newly-released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over prestigious literary appointment

The Independent UK

No 10 turned down poets John Betjeman, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves for laureate job

Newly released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over the prestigious literary appointment

The Independent UK

John Betjeman dismissed as ‘songster of tennis lawns’ in 1967 search for poet laureate

Records from the National Archive reveal the cut-throat world of British poetry, and the politics behind selecting candidates

The Guardian - UK

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‘Lightweight’ Betjeman overlooked for poet laureate

Newly-released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over the prestigious literary appointment.

The Independent UK

Starmer’s Labour are not the Tories. But they are timid

The opposition must accept there will be huge challenges if they win the election. But they do not have to accept Brexit

The Guardian - UK

UK Government could ask supermarkets to cap price of food staples in battle against inflation

The opt-in scheme, based on a similar agreement in France, would allow supermarkets to select which items they would cap.

Daily Record

Barclay: Plans for price caps on food staples have ‘no element of compulsion’

Downing Street is understood to be drawing up proposals that would seek to get retailers charging the lowest possible amount for some basic products.

The Independent UK

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Nigel Lawson obituary

One of the most influential postwar Conservative chancellors seen as the main architect of Thatcher’s radical economic reforms

The Guardian - UK

Mark Brown: Half a century of the play that changed Scotland

Iconic play The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil is celebrating 50 years. Mark Brown looks back at a Scottish classic

The National (Scotland)

If it’s growth the chancellor wants, here’s one suggestion: rejoin the EU

Jeremy Hunt says the economy is his priority; but it and he are still really in thrall to the ideological blight of Brexit

The Guardian - UK

Philip Ziegler obituary

Diplomat and historian who wrote magisterial biographies of Harold Wilson, Lord Mountbatten and Edward Heath

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer: four lessons from history for an opposition trying to be the 'government-in-waiting'

Labour’s Keir Starmer has one inestimable quality in leading a government-in-waiting a year out from a general election: a consistent 20-point lead in opinion polls.

The Conversation

Sue Gray quitting to work for Keir Starmer does cause problems for the civil service – it's also a sign she thinks he's heading for government

The last few years of drama at Westminster have set the bar pretty high for shock and surprise, but the sudden departure from government of Sue Gray, second permanent secretary to the Cabinet Office, and her proposed appointment as chief of staff to the leader of the Labour Party really…

The Conversation

Lord Pendry obituary

Busy and diligent Labour MP disappointed in his hopes of becoming sports minister under Tony Blair

The Guardian - UK

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Oscar Peterson: Black + White review – profile of pianist lets the music do the talking

A somewhat reverent look at the jazz piano virtuoso includes many famous contributors

The Conversation

How consecutive Conservative governments destroyed union rights – a timeline of the UK's anti-strike laws since the 1970s

Rishi Sunak’s government is attempting to introduce tough new laws that would further limit the right to take industrial action amid continuing strikes in the UK.

The Guardian - UK

A lesson for Sunak: when the Tories take on striking workers, they don’t always win

The prime minister is pitting the public against trade unionists — forgetting that, in millions of cases, they are the same people, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Conversation

Why Prince Andrew and Prince Harry can fill in for the King, and how the law might change

A fundamental principle at the heart of the UK constitution is that the crown never dies. On the death of one monarch, the heir to the throne immediately accedes. This smooth transition ensures that the government (which is carried on in the name of the crown) continues largely unaffected.

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Wales Online

Rishi Sunak's car comes with a secret escape hatch

It also has a self-healing fuel tank and a tamper-proof exhaust

The Guardian - UK

Why the ‘Barber boom’ that Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget recalls was destined for disaster

A reckless dash for growth is nothing new. Ted Heath’s chancellor Anthony Barber tried one in 1971, but it didn’t turn out well

The Independent UK

The Queen’s relationship with each US President: From Truman to Trump

Queen Elizabeth shared warm relationships with many US presidents

The Guardian - UK

From the archive: Robert Harris on the Queen and Mrs Thatcher, 1988

The monarch got on well with most of her premiers so why did she clash with her longest-serving prime minister, asked the Observer’s political editor in 1988

Evening Standard

Liz Truss leads tributes to the Queen ahead of MPs taking oath to the King

The Government is pressing ahead with the energy plan while parliament is postponed

Evening Standard

The Queen and the 15 Prime Ministers who served under her

She succeeded to the throne in 1952 when Winston Churchill was running the country

Daily Record

The 15 prime ministers to serve under the Queen during her 70-year reign

The Queen held weekly meetings with the prime minister of the time throughout her long reign.

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