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Scottish Government 'will need to find £100m to mitigate Labour cuts', minister says

THE Scottish Government will have to find around £100 million to mitigate Labour’s cuts to the Winter Fuel Payment, a minister has said ...

The National (Scotland)

Electoral reform and proportional representation: Ask political commentator Andrew Grice anything

Political columnist Andrew Grice is here to answer your questions on the alternatives to first-past-the-post and whether there’s enough appetite for reform in Westminster

The Independent UK

Tuesday briefing: What Rachel Reeves’ ‘tough choices’ mean for Britain

In today’s newsletter: The new chancellor announced a series of public spending cuts, blaming the previous government while also looking to their playbook

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The billions Britain needs are at Rachel Reeves’s fingertips, and no fiscal promises need be broken

These initial cuts must be followed by an autumn budget that taxes the richest and focuses on growth, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Jeremy Corbyn warns 'everyone will pay huge price' with return of Labour PFIs

JEREMY Corbyn has warned that Labour appear to be moving “heavily back” towards reintroducing PFI ...

The National (Scotland)

The Usual Suspects: Meet Labour's best pals in the great PFI wheeze

THROUGHOUT the PFI saga the same faces and names kept coming up.

The National (Scotland)

Inside the Labour Party's obsession with controversial PFIs

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was not always a controversial brand ...

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Reeves moves fast to tackle £22bn budget shortfall ‘covered up’ by Tories

Measures include cutting winter fuel payments for wealthier pensioners and shelving cap on social care payments

The Guardian - UK

Pensioners hit by Reeves’s plan to fill £22bn black hole

Pensioners take the brunt of early spending cuts as Rachel Reeves delivers a brutal assessment of the nation’s finances

The Independent UK

Tory party installs ‘yellow card’ system to prevent in-fighting as six leadership candidates confirmed

Kemi Badenoch, Priti Patel, Robert Jenrick, Mel Stride, Tom Tugendhat and James Cleverly have all received the 10 nominations necessary to enter the race

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves pursues political prize over £22bn financial hole

Carefully honed message of Commons speech is having to make tricky decisions because Tories left us a mess

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves’ statement: beyond the Tory black hole

Editorial: The chancellor was right to call out her predecessors’ culpability for a disastrous inheritance. But Labour must be bolder

The Guardian - UK

Pause on hospital building ‘must be as short as possible’, says NHS body

Infrastructure spending cuts raise waiting list concerns, while end to Stonehenge road project called ‘joyous’

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves is pulling off a transparent political manoeuvre. But she’s not entirely wrong

The Tories really did leave Britain in a fiscal hole. But austerity cannot be the remedy, writes economics and public policy professor Jonathan Portes

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Rachel Reeves goes back to the future with her public finances statement

The chancellor’s message was: this is going to hurt, but it’s not my fault. Haven’t we heard that somewhere before?

International Business Times

UK Warns Of Extra GBP22bn Hole In Public Finances

Britain's Labour finance minister Rachel Reeves declared Monday that the public finances face an extra GBP22-billion hole inherited from the previous Conservative administration and warned of "difficult decisions" ahead to cut spending or hike taxes.

The Independent UK

Key takeaways from Rachel Reeves speech in the Commons

Scrapping the universal winter fuel payment, axeing Rishi Sunak’s A-level reforms and pay rises for public sector workers were some of the measures announced

The National (Scotland)

Main points as Labour announce billions of spending cuts in 'new era of austerity'

Rachel Reeves has announced billions of pounds in spending cuts, after ordering the Treasury to carry out an audit of the UK’s public finances.

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Chancellor urged to apologise to Scots as Labour announce huge spending cuts

THE Chancellor has been urged to apologise to Scots after announcing huge cuts to public spending ...

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'Utterly unjustifiable': Economist reacts to Rachel Reeves speech

It looked as if Rachel Reeves had taken drama lessons to put on a show of sufficient mock anger in the Commons today. She clearly wanted to blame…

International Business Times

UK Facing GBP22bn Hole In Public Finances: Minister

Britain's Labour finance minister Rachel Reeves declared Monday that public finances faced an extra hole of GBP22 billion inherited from the Conservatives, who warned she was readying tax hikes.

Evening Standard

'We will have to increase taxes in the Budget,' signals Rachel Reeves

Chancellor’s admission on tax hikes comes just weeks after Labour was elected to power

The Guardian - UK

Reeves scraps social care cap and some winter fuel payments to plug ‘£22bn hole’

Hospital and road projects also targeted as chancellor accuses Tories of covering up scale of fiscal shortfall

Evening Standard

'Yellow card' warning system in place for Tory leader contest after constant blue on blue 'backbiting'

There will be a system of strict discipline in place after previous contests descended into name calling and vicious briefings

The Guardian - UK

The Greens, expelling activists for uniting to oust Jeremy Hunt? So much for progressive politics

Local members collaborated to support a Lib Dem candidate. Green HQ’s response is a sad turn away from hope, says Neal Lawson, director of Compass

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