Keir Starmer opts not to attend international AI summit in Paris Exclusive: PM risks upsetting host Emmanuel Macron and missing chance to speak to JD Vance and Elon Musk The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2025
Kay Burley: The journalist who was the face of Sky News from the start Raised in Wigan, Lancashire, Burley’s parents worked in a cardboard factory and she attended Whitley High School. Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2025
What the Labour left should learn from new revelations about Starmer’s path to power If Starmer is the hapless patsy of the Labour right, progressives must organise before Reform triumphs, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2025
Home Office wasted nearly £100m on plans to house asylum seekers, watchdog finds Public Accounts Committee examined series of site purchases and found ‘troubling culture that repeatedly wastes public money’ The Guardian - UK · Feb 5, 2025
Labour attacks Badenoch ‘shambles’ after breach of corporate rules Tory leader forgot to register as controller of party’s companies until error was pointed out last week The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025
Home Office U-turn allows Ukrainian refugees to bring children to UK after families separated Changes brought in without warning by Rishi Sunak’s government mean some Ukrainian refugees have been unable to bring their children to UK The Independent UK · Jan 31, 2025
Mel Stride fails to take off when given the chance to talk about Heathrow Shadow chancellor has few opportunities to make a mark, and this time he returned to the land of futility after just six minutes The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2025
Brexit: Even Leave voters now doubt that quitting the European Union was a success Exclusive: Poll finds that four times as many Brits say decision to leave was more of a failure than a success Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2025
Rachel Reeves unaware former chancellors had published tax returns The Chancellor had initially ruled out publishing her tax returns, but has now said she is ‘very happy’ to do so. Evening Standard · Jan 30, 2025
Rachel Reeves will publish tax return in U-turn hours after refusing to do so Chancellor said after delivering speech on growth she had no plans to release her tax returns The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025
Rachel Reeves will publish a tax return after saying she had no ‘plans to do so’ A Treasury spokesperson indicated that Ms Reeves will publish details on her finances. Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2025
Rachel Reeves refuses to publish tax return The Chancellor said she had no plans to release information on her personal finances, but Downing Street confirmed the Prime Minister would. The Independent UK · Jan 29, 2025
Why is the price of wine and spirits is going up in the UK? The end of Dry January is nigh... but you might be splashing out on more expensive wines Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2025
Drinkers warned of huge hikes in wine and spirit prices at the end of 'dry January' Industry body estimates the price of a bottle of gin will go up by at least 60p a bottle and a bottle of stronger red wine, by about 80p. Evening Standard · Jan 27, 2025
The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2025 UN development chief urges UK to rethink ‘brutal’ cuts to aid budget Achim Steiner calls for ministers to discuss reversals to overseas aid squeeze imposed by Rishi Sunak
The Guardian - UK · Jan 23, 2025 KemiKaze shows she doesn’t do sorry in first broadcast as Tory leader She longs to distance herself from Boris, Liz and Rishi – but it’s as if she has given up already
The Independent UK · Jan 23, 2025 Powell thanks Sunak for ‘big misjudgment’ on last day he could have called poll Lucy Powell said Rishi Sunak made a ‘big misjudgment for the Tory party, but a good decision for the country’ by calling the election for July 4.
The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2025 Rishi Sunak bags new job in California - but allies insist he won’t give up Commons seat Ex-Tory prime minister met his wife in the Sunshine State and held a US green card before being forced to give it up while he was chancellor
The Independent UK · Jan 21, 2025 Rishi Sunak to take up jobs at Oxford and Stanford The former prime minister will remain MP for Richmond and Northallerton.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2025 University degree still best for young Britons’ life chances, says former minister In research paper for King’s College London, former Tory minister David Willetts hits back at critics who say degree is no longer a wise investment
The Independent UK · Jan 19, 2025 Reeves blasted over Davos investment drive while millionaire non-doms desert the UK Labour chancellor will try to attract overseas investment at World Economic Forum meeting this week while row rages at home over tax changes for millionaire foreign nationals living in the UK
Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2025 Who is Torsten Bell? The new pensions minister pegged as Britain's future chancellor From being one half of Britain’s most influential political twin duo, to his role in the infamous ‘EdStone’, Emma Loffhagen reports on Torsten Bell, the former think tank director promoted to pensions minister
Evening Standard · Jan 16, 2025 Tories accused of showing ‘collective amnesia’ over record in government Commons leader Lucy Powell says she hoped the Tories might own up to economic results over last 14 years, including ‘low growth and low wages’.
The Guardian - UK · Jan 16, 2025 Orwell’s coin, brightest stars and lynx on the loose – take the Thursday quiz Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?
The Conversation · Jan 15, 2025 Tulip Siddiq resigns: there’s no evidence she broke any rules, but here’s why she had to go anyway Tulip Siddiq has resigned as anti-corruption minister after getting embroiled in a corruption scandal. A number of questions had been raised about her following an investigation by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission into the country’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed last year and just happens to be Siddiq’s aunt.