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New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern caught on hot mic calling rival ‘arrogant prick’

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was caught on a hot mic Tuesday calling a rival politician “an arrogant prick” in a rare misstep for a leader known for her skill at debating and calm, measured responses.

Evening Standard

New Zealand PM Ardern caught name-calling rival on hot mic

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been caught on a hot mic using a vulgarity against a rival politician

The Independent UK

Leo Varadkar says he is 'confident' in his judgement ahead of transition back to Taoiseach's office

Mr Varadkar is set to transition back to the Taoiseach's office this weekend

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Greens hold firm on demand for two-year power bill freeze ahead of vote on coal and gas price caps

The Greens, whose support is needed to pass a proposed price cap on gas and coal, are holding firm on their demand for a two-year freeze on energy bill prices, which they say will save households $750 and be paid for by fossil fuel companies.

ABC News

Mark McGowan's new cabinet takes shape, with Jackie Jarvis and Sabine Winton joining ranks

The make-up of Mark McGowan's next WA cabinet becomes clearer, with Sabine Winton and Jackie Jarvis picked to fill the shoes of departing veterans Alannah MacTiernan and Dave Kelly.

ABC News

Retiring MPs do little to help Ardern's reshuffle headache

Jacinda Ardern’s cabinet reshuffle needs to send a message to voters that she’s serious about refreshing her team ahead of the election. Tuesday’s three ministerial retirements provided little help on that front, writes political editor Jo Moir.

Newsroom.co.nz

Jacinda Ardern caught on hot mic calling minor opposition party leader an ‘arrogant prick’

New Zealand PM apologised for comment made live on parliament television during question time

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Singleton's Sue Gilroy quits as Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party candidate at March state election

Shooters Upper Hunter candidate quits

Newcastle Herald

Julia Gillard's misogyny speech, Stayin' Alive by the Bee Gees, Neighbours' theme song named 2022 Sounds of Australia

Former prime minister Julia Gillard's infamous speech at Parliament House 10 years ago joins nine other inductees to the National Film and Sound Archive for 2022.

ABC News

Jacinda Ardern will need more than a ‘paring back’ of policies to win

New Zealand’s prime minister knows she is in trouble, but taking back control of the narrative will require more than a few U-turns

The Guardian - AU

Renfrewshire Labour leader opens up on 'sadness' over friend's resignation from party

Iain McMillan said he wouldn't like to see his friendship with John Hood lost because of the situation.

Daily Record

'Hardline Conservative administration is provoking swathes of strikes across England'

Clapping nurses, carers and others delivering public services during the pandemic then financially slapping them with measly, living standard crushing pay offers is grotesque hypocrisy from a regime accused of relishing confrontation in the hope it deflects from them crashing the economy

Daily Mirror

Dave Cormack left in limbo hopeful of council funding for Aberdeen stadium

Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack is clinging on to hope that the club’s projected £80million stadium will be part of the local authority’s £150m…

The National (Scotland)

South Lanarkshire councillors show solidarity with women who have suffered gender based violence

Councillors marked 16 days of action against gender based violence by showing support to victims in the area and around the world.

Daily Record

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The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Sunak’s strikes: to be more inflexible than Thatcher is a flaw

Editorial: The prime minister should be like his political idol and award inflation-proof pay rises to end industrial strife by key workers

The National (Scotland)

Tories and Labour vote to deny schoolkids hot soup and roll over winter months

SCHOOLKIDS have been denied a free soup and roll throughout the winter months after Labour and Tory councillors teamed up to vote down the proposal.

Glasgow Live

Glasgow support for buffer zones outside abortion clinics after court ruling

Last week, a Supreme Court ruling allowed buffer zones, which create restrictions on protesting, outside abortion clinics in Northern Ireland.

The Independent UK

Ministers hear call to reward armed forces for covering Christmas strikes

Conservative MP Richard Drax questioned the Government in the Commons over whether there are ‘any signs of some sort of reward or thank you’.

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Glasgow's £770m equal pay deal hailed as 'cause for celebration'

Claimants' representatives and council staff have been praised for their work on the settlement which was required as mainly women workers were paid unfairly.

The Independent UK

Sunak faces grilling from senior MPs

Rishi Sunak will appear before the Liaison Committee on December 20.

The Guardian - UK

Housing targets help developers, not those struggling to buy

Letters: Isabella Stone and Ursula Hutchinson on the government’s scrapping of housebuilding targets

Daily Mirror

Top Tory admits voters have 'buyer's remorse' and won't back Conservatives at election

Former culture minister Ed Vaizey warned that voters who backed the Tories at the last election may "sit on their hands" next time rather than support the party again

Bristol Post

Bristol region's political leaders promise to get along better following damning report

"'Compromise’ should not be a dirty word when it comes to the combined authority.”

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer ‘tattooing on his forehead’ that Labour won’t do deal with SNP

Labour leader challenges Nicola Sturgeon on whether she would ‘prop up Tory government’

Daily Mirror

Downing Street rejects council leaders' plea to delay forcing voters to show ID

It comes as the Liberal Democrats attempt to block plans to introduce photo ID at elections from 2023 using a rare "fatal motion" in the House of Lords on Tuesday

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