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Social media ban for under 16s could be announced within months, says Technology Secretary Liz Kendall

Ministers are scrambling to keep up with the fast-changing online world as they seek to protect youngters

Evening Standard

Barack Obama unleashes on Trump as he breaks silence over president's video depicting him and Michelle as apes

The video has drawn criticism from Trump’s own Republican party

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Keir Starmer says Jim Ratcliffe’s immigration comments ‘offensive and wrong’

Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe is founder and chairman of one of the world’s largest chemical companies, Ineos.

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Labour peer sent memo to Starmer chief of staff McSweeney warning against Mandelson appointment

Lord Maurice Glasman sent the warning after attending a party hosted by Nigel Farage in Washington DC ahead of Donald Trump’s inauguration

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on the Mandelson-Epstein emails: unavoidable questions of misconduct in public office

Editorial: Leaking crisis policy to financiers demands investigation, not evasion. Gordon Brown understands this. Credibility can’t be pursued at the expense of trust

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting allies hit out at ‘stupid’ briefings after ministers ‘urge Starmer to sack him for disloyalty’

Senior government figures are reportedly pressing for Mr Streeting's removal, citing his ‘outspoken opinions’

The Independent UK

Technology Secretary threatens to block UK access to X over Grok deepfakes

Ofcom said it was undertaking an ‘expedited assessment’ after X and XAi responded to its urgent contact on Monday.

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Government says changes to Grok ‘insulting’ and urges Ofcom to update ‘in days’

X has faced a backlash after reports that users of its AI chatbot had prompted it to create sexualised images of people, including children.

Evening Standard

Starmer’s priority is to protect UK relationship with Trump, Streeting suggests

Wes Streeting also issued a direct warning to the US president, saying now is ‘not the time to destabilise Nato’ after Trump threatened to annex Greenland

The Independent UK

Chinese mega embassy in London could bring security advantages, Downing Street claims

No 10 has sought to highlight the ‘benefits’ of consolidating the seven Chinese sites currently dotted around the capital in the mega embassy

Evening Standard

Streeting gives major pre-Budget speech on child poverty fuelling further leadership speculation

The health secretary’s intervention came on the eve of Rachel Reeves’ make-or-break budget

The Independent UK

BBC accused of misleading viewers two years before controversial Panorama Trump edit

BBC Newsnight reportedly played a similar edit of the US president’s speech in June 2022

Evening Standard

Pressure grows on Starmer to sack chief of staff over briefing row

Growing calls for Morgan McSweeney to go after extraordinary briefing operation against Wes Streeting

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s new deputy leader says party must pay more heed to its members

Exclusive: Powell, who was sacked as Commons leader by Starmer in September, says government should stop trying to ‘out-Reform Reform’

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I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

The Independent UK

China mega embassy decision ‘set to be delayed again’ amid spy case row

Sir Keir Starmer’s government has faced backlash following the collapse of a trial for alleged Chinese spies

The Guardian - UK

Six great reads: my Couples Therapy hell, the plot to dethrone Keir Starmer and a ‘creepy’ AI toy

Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the last seven days

The Independent UK

Voices: The King has single-handedly saved our embattled prime minister

COMMENT: Feted by British royalty like no other American president, Donald Trump, the brash real-estate guy from Queens who is shunned by New York’s grand old families, was made to feel right at home, says Emily Sheffield. But it was a crowning achievement for Keir Starmer, too

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Donald Trump hails ‘priceless and eternal’ bond between US and Britain at lavish state banquet with King

Banquet ends day of pomp, pageantry and protest ahead of second day of visit when focus of US President’s state visit will shift to politics

Evening Standard

Trump praises ‘friend’ the King and teases trade talks ahead of state visit

The US president said he is ‘into helping’ Britain on refining the UK-US trade deal.

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'World’s largest’ photo of Epstein and Trump unveiled at Windsor Castle ahead of US President's state visit

A campaign group claimed to unfurl the ‘world’s largest’ photo of Epstein and Trump at Windsor Castle

Evening Standard

OPINION - Keir Starmer is in deep water – but is he in danger of drowning?

Donald Trump’s second state visit in six years starts today at King Charles’s Windsor estate in style: a carriage ride (past Harry and Meghan’s old haunt of Frogmore Cottage, as it happens), a lavish evening banquet and panoply of military bands and fly pasts. It is a massive ceremonial courtesy…

The Independent UK

UK and US to sign ‘landmark’ nuclear partnership during Trump’s visit

The Atlantic Partnership for Advanced Nuclear Energy will clear the way for major projects

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Peter Mandelson in Washington: a parable of short-sighted foreign policy

Editorial: Any association with Jeffrey Epstein was obviously toxic and it reflects poorly on Keir Starmer’s judgment that he didn’t anticipate the risk

The Independent UK

Poland shoots down Putin’s drones and warns it’s ‘closer to conflict than at any time since World War II’

Washington’s ambassador to Nato vowed the US will defend ‘every inch of Nato territory’ as Russia faces worldwide condemnation for drone incursion

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