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David Edgar: ‘If you can only think yourself into the shoes you’re wearing it makes creating fiction impossible’

With two new plays opening this autumn, the veteran playwright talks about the risks of writing about real events and the threats to leftwing drama and politics

The Guardian - UK

Who is Lord Alli, the life peer and prominent Labour donor?

From access into No 10 to covering the costs of Victoria Starmer’s personal shopper and wardrobe, Lord Waheed Alli’s political career has had its intriguing moments. But who is the millionaire TV mogul who was granted a peerage at 34?

Evening Standard

Financial leaders and party insiders warn Starmer: we need less gloom, more optimism

PM told his downbeat tone risks putting off investors and that his conference speech must temper realism with hope

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Furore over Labour cronies ‘no worse than Tories’ in government, allies say

Political veterans say Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves installing trusted allies in Whitehall roles par for the course

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer is right to recognise that Britain needs to move away from an economic model that seeks growth by making workers poorer

The Guardian - UK

Here's what £29bn in New Labour's PFI debt bought the Scottish taxpayer

THE National can reveal that Scots have had £29 billion of debt foisted on us by PFIs – and that we will be paying the bills until 2043 ...

The National (Scotland)

Inside the Labour Party's obsession with controversial PFIs

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was not always a controversial brand ...

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Pressure building on Starmer to go further reversing the harms of Brexit

MPs show appetite for far reaching changes to UK’s relationship with the EU with one new Labour MP claiming a toy shop in her constituency closed because of Brexit

The Independent UK

Call off the search to discover Starmerism. It is already beginning to reveal itself

The meaty king’s speech heralded several striking and radical departures from the Tory years that came before

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer aims to avoid backbench rebellion with child poverty taskforce

PM’s speech failed to specify measures to tackle issue, angering MPs calling to scrap the two-child benefit cap

The Guardian - UK

It was a landslide election but this much is clear: neither Labour nor the Tories stand on solid ground

We know Starmer is in No 10, the Tories in disarray but what lies beneath should worry the entire political class, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: French opposition to the far right comes out on top

In today’s newsletter: A shock defeat for the far right National Rally in France, while in the UK the new Labour government gets down to work

The Guardian - UK

All the Labour cabinet members who aren’t MPs from Patrick Vallance to James Timpson

The cabinet includes senior ministers from the Tony Blair era, and those given peerages to sit in the House of Lords

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer stunned sceptics and rebuilt Labour. Now he must do the same for Britain

Not one senior party figure originally thought he had a prayer of leading them back into government in a single parliament, but now he bestrides a transformed political landscape

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Who is in the new Labour cabinet?

With many MPs who served Blair and Brown, Starmer’s team is one of the most experienced in recent times

The Independent UK

Labour’s 1997 results and how the 2024 general election exit poll compares

Sir Keir Starmer’s party is predicted to win 410 seats, falling short of New Labour’s result in 1997

The Guardian - UK

Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government

Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule

The Conversation

Labour and the Conservatives both plan to boost childcare by relying on the private sector

Childcare features prominently in both major parties’ plans for work and personal finance. Keir Starmer wants to make early-years provision as universal as possible while the Conservatives claim they’re already transforming childcare and increasing funding to both boost children’s development and get mothers back to work.

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Revealed: Westminster’s ‘unhealthy’ £100,000 relationship with the gambling industry

WESTMINSTER MPs and parties benefited from over £100,000 in gifts and donations from the gambling industry in the past year...

The Guardian - UK

Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party – and we should believe it

Let’s take Starmer at its word that it is the party of wealth creation and growth, not redistribution and equality. What will this mean for our politics, asks David Edgerton, professor of modern British history at King’s College London

The Conversation

If Rachel Reeves hikes capital gains tax, she’ll be more in line with Nigel Lawson than Gordon Brown

With Labour heavily predicted to win the upcoming UK election, there has been much talk about future tax plans.

Evening Standard

OPINION - Labour's private school tax raid may cost as well as win it seats

Depending on who you ask, New Labour died in June 2007, when Tony Blair stood down as prime minister, or September 2010, when Ed Miliband was elected leader. Except, neither is quite right, in that the real demise can be pinpointed to May 2008, at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election.

The Conversation

Tony Blair sold the UK on a vision for the future. Can Keir Starmer do the same to return Labour to power?

When British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the UK general election outside 10 Downing Street in the pouring rain last month, the ignominy of the moment was compounded by the sound of a protester playing “Things Can Only Get Better” by D:Ream.

The Guardian - UK

Thatcherism, austerity, Brexit, Liz Truss... goodbye and good riddance to all that

For 45 years, Britain has been blighted by Conservative ideologies that promised a path to prosperity, but achieved nothing of the sort

The Conversation

What will Labour actually do in government? Manifesto clues point to a surprisingly radical agenda

Since the first polls of the official election campaign came out earlier this month, there has been talk of Labour repeating its 1997 landslide.

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