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Lord Kinnock urges Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap with ‘Robin Hood economics’

Rising levels of poverty ‘would make Charles Dickens furious’, former Labour leader says

The Independent UK

Monarchists fume over Nicola Sturgeon remarks on late Queen and Prince William

NICOLA Sturgeon is facing anger from her political opponents after taking aim at Prince William – and saying the late Queen Elizabeth loved…

The National (Scotland)

Club World Cup and summer tennis bring in the bets for Entain

Gambling group delivers better-than-expected half-year results, helping it to brace for looming tax rises

The Guardian - UK

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The stakes are high for a tax on the gambling industry

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Gordon Brown that proposes a tax on the betting sector to help alleviate child poverty

The Guardian - UK

‘I became obsessed’: New Labour psychodrama grips TikTok teenagers

Nostalgic social media videos detailing Blair-Brown rivalry elicit cult following among young political fans

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Why Starmer will be back for another stab at welfare cuts

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: Despite the humiliating U-turn on cuts to disability benefits, the prime minister has not given up on reducing ballooning social security spending. Ministers believe they have now found a way to proceed – and how to quash any rebellion, says Andrew Grice

The Independent UK

As dark financial clouds gather, Labour has to heed its past: when it chooses austerity, it loses elections

Those who insist on spending cuts are those who are never hurt by them. Time to be brave – and take a new tack, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Reeves and Starmer to prepare ground for tax rises in a difficult autumn budget

Exclusive: The Guardian has been told that discussions about increases include a near-certain gambling levy

The Guardian - UK

Dire economic crosswinds mean Rachel Reeves must raise income tax

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Despite interest rates being brought to their lowest level in more than two years, a combination of meagre economic growth, high government spending and U-turns over proposed welfare cuts has trapped Labour in a fiscal straitjacket. But the chancellor must remember that good policy is good…

The Independent UK

The Guardian view on gambling: a public reckoning with the dark side of this highly profitable industry is overdue

Editorial: Gordon Brown says gambling is undertaxed, Andy Burnham wants the power to block new gaming centres – and ministers should pay attention

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Rachel Reeves won’t thank Gordon Brown for his tax advice

COMMENT: By advocating an increase in online gambling levies – not to help close the yawning fiscal gap, but to pay for the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap – the former prime minister has suggested that the moral case for higher spending outweighs the need for fiscal responsibility, says…

The Independent UK

FACT CHECK: Gordon Brown’s 'worse every day' warning on Scottish child poverty

“Gordon Brown warns child poverty in Scotland is getting 'worse every day' as he calls for UK Government action” ...

The National (Scotland)

Reeves leaves door open to gambling tax rise in autumn budget

The Chancellor said she was ‘deeply concerned’ about child poverty and the Government is taking evidence in a review of gambling taxes.

Evening Standard

Gordon Brown: Raise gambling taxes to fund abolition of benefit cap

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UK hasn’t seen poverty like this for 60 years, says Gordon Brown in call to scrap two-child benefit cap

The former prime minister backed reforms to gambling taxes in order to generate the £3.2bn needed to scrap the cap

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves should exempt defence pledge from budget rules, says Gordon Brown

The former chancellor said the commitment to spend 5% of GDP by 2035 should be treated as ‘exceptional’.

The Guardian - UK

Home Office reveals how people will be chosen to come to UK from France under ‘one in, one out’ scheme – as it happened

People will be chosen via three-stage process, with government expected to accept around 50 migrants a week when scheme starts

The Independent UK

Tax gambling industry more to lift 500,000 children out of poverty, government urged

The gambling industry should pay a ‘fairer share,’ former PM Gordon Brown said

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Evening Standard

Gordon Brown backs gambling tax reform to tackle child poverty

The IPPR said it feels ‘fair’ to ask the ‘highly profitable’ industry to contribute more.

The Guardian - UK

The gambling industry is a licence to print money. Tax it properly – and turbocharge the fight against child poverty

New thinking is urgent now. I have not seen such deep poverty since I grew up in a mining and textiles town blighted by unemployment, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

The Guardian - UK

Labour urged to revive Sure Start label to win back Reform voters

Commission says new Best Start project should be called Sure Start to rebuild trust in austerity damaged areas

The Guardian - UK

Why is Labour so afraid to admit that we must tax the rich?

There have been modest redistributive reforms, but the party still daren’t admit that Britain’s rampant inequality needs to be addressed, writes Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Independent UK

‘I meant it!’: Former Tory minister reacts to infamous viral comment caught on hot mic

Former education secretary Gillian Keegan has spoken to ex-Labour MPs Jon Ashworth and Gloria De Piero for their Politics Inside Out podcast and addressed an infamous post interview comment she made when she mistakenly thought the camera was off

The Guardian - UK

‘Now Brexit is behind us’: what’s at stake as Macron makes state visit to the UK?

Future of £100bn UK-France trade relationship in focus amid attempt to show unity in face of Trump tariffs

The Guardian - UK

The spirit of the G8 ‘make poverty history’ summit of 2005 seems long gone

The 2008 crash, Trump, aid budget cuts and a more fragmented world has made debt relief seem a lost cause but there are murmurs of a renaissance

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