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‘We’re quietly chirpy’: some Tories glimpse ray of hope, but others see abyss at May elections

Reform’s lead waning, Labour struggling and Badenoch doing well at PMQs all boost mood but is disaster inevitable?

The Guardian - UK

Great Kemi revival stalls as student loans debate turns into deranged tirade

PMQs was going reasonably well for Tory leader until she began to find her own argument too worthy and started hurling insults instead

The Guardian - UK

Nigel Farage unveils ‘shadow cabinet’ team – but why did only three of his MPs get jobs?

Since May 2025, Reform UK has led every poll of general election voting intention. Were an election held today, Reform would be poised to form a government. It would probably be a majority government, too. A party needs 326 seats in the House of Commons to form a majority, and…

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‘Clearly not’: Lucy Powell asked if she would have ennobled Lord Doyle

The peer, who has had the Labour whip removed, earlier apologised and said he believed Morton’s initial assertions of innocence.

Evening Standard

Starmer accused of catastrophic lack of judgement over jobs for 'paedophile apologists' in angry PMQs clash

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch tears into the PM’s decision to give peerage to former No10 communications chief Matthew Doyle

Evening Standard

A black swan event: Keir actually cracked a good joke at PMQs

MPs from most corners of Commons laughed at the festive gag – but stony-faced Farage failed to see the funny side

The Guardian - UK

Why doesn’t Lammy just bring in a new policy of accidentally jailing people?

Justice secretary seemed to be the only person not being released, as he hid from questions about latest prison mishaps

The Guardian - UK

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Two more prisoners on run after being released from HMP Wandsworth by mistake in fresh crisis for Labour

Police searching for Algerian sex offender freed from Wandsworth jail by mistake along with convicted fraudster – days after justice secretary claimed he’d introduced strictest-ever prison checks following Epping migrant blunder

The Independent UK

Police launch double manhunt as two prisoners mistakenly released from jail

It comes after migrant Hadush Kebatu was wrongly released from HMP Chelmsford on October 24.

Evening Standard

Met police issue statement with more information about missing Algerian prisoner – as it happened

Police say Brahim Kaddour-Cherif is believed to have links to Tower Hamlets and is also known to frequent the Westminster area

The Guardian - UK

Farage reclaims centre stage as Reform’s Sarah Pochin keeps the world at bay

Nige suffers through lacklustre PMQs to seize the spotlight with drive-by demand to get further away from Europe

The Guardian - UK

Top Starmer aide resigns over explicit Diane Abbott messages in further blow to PM – as it happened

Director of strategy Paul Ovenden quits to avoid becoming ‘distraction’ after details of derogatory emails emerge

The Guardian - UK

Labour MPs turn on Starmer after PM backs Mandelson despite ‘best pal’ Epstein revelations

PM under pressure to sack Labour peer as it’s claimed he advised paedophile: ‘Your friends stay with you and love you’

The Independent UK

Starmer ‘too arrogant’ to admit he’s got things wrong, Badenoch tells Commons

The Conservative leader pressed the Prime Minister on borrowing costs, unemployment, and future tax rises, at PMQs.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Governments have the right to expect MPs to support their decisions

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: If anything, given the sheer size of the rebellion on social security – 130 of his own MPs threatening to defeat a government bill – Keir Starmer has been too lenient

The Guardian - UK

Commons at pompous worst as Afghan data breach proves too much bother for Badenoch

No one had anything to say about a cover-up kept secret from parliament, the public and the people whose data was leaked

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: Tories’ energy policy shows they are ‘anti-science, anti-jobs, anti-future’ Miliband tells MPs – as it happened

Energy secretary says it is not clear if opposition have any net zero policy

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves’s brave face cannot mask the challenges she now faces

The chancellor has come out fighting after her teary PMQs moment... but much tougher challenges now await

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The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer defends ignoring Rachel Reeves's tears at PMQs: 'I was last to notice'

KEIR Starmer has said he was “probably the last” person to realise Chancellor Rachel Reeves was crying during Prime Minister’s Questions on…

Evening Standard

Reeves appears in public day after PMQs tears

Chancellor Rachel Reeves joined Sir Keir Starmer at the launch of the Government’s NHS plan.

The Guardian - UK

Survival-mode Starmer throws tearful chancellor to wolves at PMQs

Even Kemi Badenoch was able to land punches after prime minister failed to guarantee Rachel Reeves’s position

The Independent UK

Labour MP reintroduces bid for Hillsborough Law after campaign stalls

Ian Byrne (Liverpool West Derby), who was with family at the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, said a law is needed to restore faith in justice.

The Independent UK

Watch in full: Angela Rayner faces Chris Philp in PMQs as Starmer returns from G7 summit

Watch as Angela Rayner faced Chris Philp at PMQs on Wednesday (18 June), filling in for Sir Keir Starmer as he travels back from the G7 summit in Canada.

The National (Scotland)

Why is Angela Rayner standing in for Keir Starmer at PMQs today?

DEPUTY Prime Minister Angela Rayner is set to stand in for Keir Starmer at today’s PMQs

The Independent UK

Watch: Rachel Reeves delivers spending review as chancellor pledges to make working people ‘better off’

Watch again as Rachel Reeves delivered her much-anticipated spending review on Wednesday (11 June) as the chancellor pledged to make working people “better off”.

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