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Emily Thornberry challenges Keir Starmer to cut post-Brexit border checks to help small businesses

The new chair of the powerful Commons foreign affairs committee, a surprise omission from the prime minister’s cabinet, said she had a list of improvements she was happy to give the government

The Independent UK

Emily Thornberry asks ‘is he supposed to take a packed lunch?’ in defence of Starmer amid Labour donations row

Wes Streeting joked he had been ‘outed’ as a Taylor Swift fan as senior Labour figures defended Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to accept the donations

The Independent UK

Emily Thornberry warns of Middle East repercussions after deadly pager explosions

Nine people died and thousands were injured in Lebanon and Syria in what appeared to be an Israeli-linked attack

The Independent UK

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Emily Thornberry secures key Westminster foreign affairs role despite Gaza comments

LABOUR MP Emily Thornberry has been elected to an influential Westminster foreign affairs role ...

The National (Scotland)

Labour’s 2024 intake overlooked for select committee lead roles

Emily Thornberry becomes head of foreign select committee, while Karen Bradley is sole Conservative given leading role

The Guardian - UK

The week in audio: Suella Braverman on LBC; Dangerous Memories; World of Secrets: The Apartheid Killer – review

Now a stand-in LBC presenter, the ex-home secretary accepts no opinion but her own; an investigation into a lifestyle guru is horrifying and riveting; and the harrowing story of a South African mass murderer is well told

The Guardian - UK

Relax, Starmergeddon hasn’t happened. The grownups are in charge

We can now feel free to get on with our lives without worrying what the halfwits in Westminster might do next

The Guardian - UK

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Three first-time London MPs immediately made ministers as 21 from capital in Government

First-time London MPs Georgia Gould, Sarah Sackman and Miatta Fahnbulleh have been promoted to junior minister roles

Evening Standard

OPINION - Student debt of £50,000 is wrong — Labour must stop the injustice of punishing the young

Who, apart from the very wealthy, could bring themselves to go to university these days? Three years of mostly less-than adequate teaching, a lot of it on Zoom, an uncertain at best transition into the workplace and a whacking great loan that you’ll spend the next 40 years repaying isn’t…

Evening Standard

London MP Emily Thornberry ‘sorry and surprised’ not to be given senior Government post

The former shadow frontbencher was one of the few members of Labour’s top team not to receive her equivalent role in Government.

Evening Standard

Emily Thornberry outburst after being snubbed for cabinet role by Keir Starmer

The former shadow attorney general was one of the few members of Labour’s top team not to receive her equivalent role in Government

The Independent UK

Emily Thornberry ‘sorry and surprised’ not to be given cabinet role by Starmer

Former shadow attorney general says she wishes cabinet well and nothing can detract from party’s ‘historic victory’

The Guardian - UK

Football, faith and Fabianism: what books by the new frontbenchers tell us about the way Labour will govern

Ed Miliband’s ideas are more radical than his party’s; Emily Thornberry is alarmed by Trump; Rachel Reeves has an unlikely role model. What else do the new cabinet’s tomes reveal?

The Guardian - UK

Row over Labour’s private school tax raid as Bridget Phillipson insists class sizes will not increase

Keir Starmer said it was wrong for shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry to suggest that Labour’s plan to add VAT to private school fees would lead to larger class sizes in the state sector

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Minister ‘surprised and disappointed’ by Sunak’s D-day blunder

Chris Philp says PM has apologised for missing events, and will be ‘back bouncing around the campaign trail’

Evening Standard

Starmer forced to deny shadow Cabinet minister claim that VAT on private schools may push up state class sizes

Shadow attorney general Emily Thornberry suggested on Sunday that ‘it would be fine if we have to, in the short term, have larger classes’

Evening Standard

VAT on private schools may lead to ‘larger classes’ in state sector – Thornberry

Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said pupils would be impacted by ‘Labour’s politics of envy’.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: kids’ art and sending Boris packing – the poll clerks’ small joys

Using schools for polling stations must have its perks. Plus, sympathy for the enslaved girl heckled by Plato

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David Cameron under fire for hiring £42m luxury jet for central Asia tour

Foreign secretary’s use of Embraer Lineage 1000 follows £348,000 bill for James Cleverly’s eight-day trip in similar plane in 2023

The Guardian - UK

Labour to give police emergency powers to charge domestic abuse suspects

Crime crackdown plan also gives victims of rape and sexual assault the right to specialist support throughout justice process

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage lobbied senior Tory minister over NatWest complaint

Emily Thornberry accuses Farage and Andrew Griffith of ‘secretly conspiring’ over de-banking issue

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch voted Tories’ favourite minister of the year

Survey puts Badenoch narrowly ahead of Suella Braverman and Penny Mordaunt in race to succeed Rishi Sunak

The Guardian - UK

May election is ‘worst kept secret in Westminster’, says senior Labour MP

Emily Thornberry says country is desperate, and Labour is ready, for general election

The Guardian - UK

There is a reason Starmer is under fire for his record as a lawyer – and a good reason he should defend it

The scrutiny is inevitable given he has used his past to political benefit. But he should stand up for the system he was part of, says author and legal affairs specialist Robert Kerkaik

Evening Standard

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