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Angela Rayner ‘to publish memoir’ amid growing speculation over leadership challenge

There has been growing speculation that Angela Rayner is preparing to challenge the prime minister, amid devastating approval ratings and growing concern over the direction of the Labour government

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner to publish memoir amid talk of potential Labour leadership challenge

Exclusive: Book to detail life from child poverty and teenage pregnancy to unions and Labour deputy leadership before fall from grace

The Guardian - UK

From Keir as Eliot Ness to Radon Liz on YouTube – the 2025 alternative politics awards

With the Christmas recess stopping our politicians causing more havoc, it’s time for the Guardian’s parliamentarian of the year awards

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With Starmer’s enemies short on options, Labour MPs have to make do with gossip

Efforts to get PM to spend more time with his MPs appear to be bearing fruit – and few in the party see a clear path for a leadership challenge

The Guardian - UK

Former Prince Andrew is butt of the year’s best Christmas cracker joke

Two Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor gags make top 10 of public vote, along with jokes about Oasis and Nigel Farage

The Guardian - UK

Minister demands explanation from Starmer after being sacked from cabinet

Culture minister Ian Murray is still furious about receiving no explanation over why he was sacked as Scottish secretary

The Independent UK

‘Technocrat’ criticism was not aimed at Starmer, insists Streeting

The Health Secretary also ruled out the possibility of challenging the Prime Minister’s leadership alongside Angela Rayner.

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Pity Keir Starmer – he’s the fall guy for a Labour right that’s ready to cast him aside

The PM is the face of failure, but he is not solely responsible. As the Blairite ideologues mass behind Wes Streeting, we should hold them to account too, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Davey claims ‘historic victory’ for Lib Dems after tokenistic vote in favour of customs union with EU – as it happened

The vote will have no practical impact, despite Davey’s ‘historic’ claim

The Guardian - UK

‘Could do a better job than Keir Starmer’: who could replace the PM if he is forced out?

Labour leader remains bullish about defeating any challenge, but jostling for top job among rivals and their supporters continues

The Guardian - UK

Labour think tank that supported Starmer asks members who they would back in leadership challenge

It comes amid growing concern about the direction of the government and devastating approval ratings less than two years after Labour’s historic landslide election victory

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer says ‘hugely talented’ Angela Rayner will return to cabinet

PM gives clearest indication yet of comeback, calling former deputy ‘the best social mobility story’ the country has seen

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner will return to cabinet, Keir Starmer says

Angela Rayner resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary in September after she failed to pay the correct stamp duty on her Hove flat

The Independent UK

Sir Keir Starmer says former deputy Angela Rayner will return to Cabinet

Ms Rayner resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary in September after an ethics probe found that she breached the ministerial code.

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Rayner and Streeting deny claims of Labour leadership pact

A source said ‘there is no vacancy and there is no pact’ amid claims that MPs close to Wes Streeting had approached Angela Rayner.

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner forced to deny pact with Wes Streeting for Labour leadership

The former deputy prime minister ‘will not be played like a pawn’, a source close to her said about the claims

The Guardian - UK

UK workers will get unfair dismissal rights after six months from 1 January 2027

Angela Rayner drops plan to force earlier implementation after talks, says source, with start date to be announced in Commons

Evening Standard

Government delays decision on Chinese 'super embassy' again

The UK government has again delayed its decision over whether to approve plans for a new Chinese “super embassy” in central London.

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Rayner to push to speed up part of workers’ Bill after day-one right scrapped

Labour’s flagship workers’ rights package was stripped of the day-one right to claims against unfair dismissal amid a stand-off between peers and MPs.

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner to lay amendment to speed up workers’ rights bill

Exclusive: Former deputy PM understood to have accepted compromise on day-one rights, after ‘considerable anger’ over Lords intervention

The Guardian - UK

It’s under fire from left and right – but Labour’s workers’ rights bill is a huge achievement

It makes no sense for union leaders to cry betrayal when it will be their members who benefit from these sorely needed reforms, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner 'tried to dodge council tax surcharge on grace and favour flat'

Questions are mounting for the former deputy prime minister who previously resigned after a row over stamp duty on her Hove home

The Independent UK

Starmer’s employment rights U-turn is a sharp move few will cheer him for

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The six-month qualifying period for protection from unfair dismissal is a step in the right direction, which should have been taken long ago – but this dangerous habit of breaking manifesto pledges is compounding a crisis of trust in politics

The Guardian - UK

Labour MPs to demand more concessions on workers’ rights after government climbdown

Unhappy MPs will push for stronger protections in other areas, such as bogus self-employment arrangements

The Guardian - UK

Congratulations, everyone! Starmer survives another week, and it’s only cost us £26bn

Labour can proudly say this was a budget for working people – that is, if your job happens to be prime minister, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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