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The UK's top financial influencers skew Conservative – which helps explain why Keir Starmer's Labour is so anxious about uncosted spending pledges

It has become a common complaint among some Labour supporters that Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves are being too cautious about their spending commitments in preparing for a future Labour government. At a recent national policy forum, the leadership clashed with the party’s left, which argued against “fiscal…

The Conversation

Liz Truss tops the list of PMs ‘who left Britain worse off’

Truss resigned after 45 days with the country in economic meltdown following her the 2022 mini budget

Evening Standard

UK weather: Why is Britain enduring such a rainy summer?

Jet stream to blame for damp squib, meteorologists explain

The Independent UK

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Britain’s Longest-Serving Fire Dog Retires After 500 Investigations

Black Labrador Req, instrumental in solving arson and murder cases, passes the torch to his protégé Loki.

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OPINION - The Standard View: Rishi Sunak’s anti-green plan is a curious gamble

Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party appear to have concluded, on the basis of a solitary and surprise by-election victory, to trash the Government’s record on the environment. It is a curious decision — and one that threatens not only Britain’s ability to combat catastrophic climate change, but also ignores…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Britain worsened by inflation and NHS delays - poll: The Leader podcast

Ipsos survey for Standard shows PM’s lowest satisfaction score

Evening Standard

Brussels tells EU states: Ignore UK on post-Brexit trade

Exclusive: Former European trade commissioner Peter Mandelson says trying to circumvent Brussels was always going to backfire

The Independent UK

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OPINION - Drill, baby, drill: Rishi Sunak junks the Tory green brand

I’m afraid I have what might be shocking news – Ken Clarke is quite right-wing. He may hold heterodox views on Europe (a conviction that cost him the party leadership on multiple occasions), but Clarke’s reputation as a Tory ‘wet’ belies both his record and his admiration for Margaret Thatcher.

Evening Standard

Tower of London's Crown Jewels: colonial diamonds overshadow reopened exhibition's most interesting objects

The Tower of London’s Crown Jewel exhibition, which reopened in May, is a turning point in the museum’s narrative. As British institutions have increasingly made moves to investigate their connections to slavery, there has been a gradual acceptance of the complicated nature of the nation’s history, which does not sit…

The Conversation

OPINION - Dylan Jones: Slowcoach, slug Britain — is this really what we want to become?

Welcome, then, to Slug Britain. A place that gets slower by the minute. A few days ago, as I was hurtling out of Liverpool Street Tube station at 6.50am, my hand holding my debit card, ready to swipe it against the ticket machine, I walked smack right into an example…

Evening Standard

Broken Britain? 76% say UK is becoming a worse place to live as taxes and NHS crisis take toll

43 per cent of voters think Labour is ready to form the next government, while Rishi Sunak’s favourability remains low

Evening Standard

UK to grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses, ignoring calls from environmentalists

Britain says it will grant hundreds of new oil and gas licenses in the North Sea in a bid for energy independence

The Independent UK

BT lands new Swedish telecom boss

BT moved quickly today to replace the departing CEO Philip Jansen, hiring company insider Allison Kirkby to take on one of the most demanding jobs in corporate Britain.

Evening Standard

Government cuts cost of polluting in Britain in latest anti-green move

Ministers quietly rolled out changes to a carbon trading scheme which lets companies compensate for their greenhouse gas emissions

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Rishi Sunak commits to hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences alongside carbon capture investment

The prime minister said he is backing the North Sea oil and gas industry to ‘make Britain more energy independent’

The Guardian - UK

UK mortgage approvals jump unexpectedly; eurozone returns to growth as inflation falls – as it happened

UK mortgage approvals rise to eight-month high in June, while eurozone GDP rises after narrowly avoiding winter recession

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak announces hundreds of new oil and gas licences for North Sea

THE Prime Minister has confirmed that hundreds of new North Sea oil and gas licences will be granted in the UK.

The Independent UK

Please: no Gavin & Stacey reunion

The BBC sitcom lives in a less complicated Britain – one that was still really into The Streets and chunky belts and WKD, and knew Laurence Fox as the guy from ‘Lewis’, writes Tom Nicholson. Can’t we just leave it be?

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David Grann's The Wager: a drama of murder, insurrection, escape and an empire at sea

In 1740, a modest squadron of ships from Britain’s Royal Navy departed Portsmouth in pursuit of an immoderate treasure. Commodore George Anson, who led the flotilla, was tasked with sailing south and west across the Atlantic Ocean, rounding Cape Horn, and interfering in imperial Spain’s lucrative trans-Pacific trade. But even…

The Guardian - UK

Niger coup: Britain cuts aid and neighbours ‘may use force’ to restore president

Ecowas bloc issues one-week ultimatum, warning it will take ‘all measures necessary” to restore order

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on a new alliance between Wales and Cornwall: unlocking Celtic energy

Editorial: Offshore wind power could kickstart an economic renaissance in the west of Britain

Advnture

Child-friendly summits: mini mountains for mini explorers

We reveal six of our favorite child-friendly summits: glorious hikes for the whole family, with three in the US and three in Britain

The Independent UK

James Cleverly accused of treating foreign secretary job like ‘continuous photoshoot’

Senior civil servants and Tory backbenchers say the foreign minister is not working to represent the ‘hard interests’ of Britain

The Guardian - UK

When I was growing up, our leisure centre was a lifeline. Now it’s been boarded up

Privileged politicians don’t seem to understand what the closure of subsidised sports facilities means for poor families in deprived areas

The Independent UK

Sanctuary for Pablo Escobar’s family in UK was part of secret deal

World’s most infamous drug lord was planning to surrender on condition his wife and children were given asylum, with Britain named as a ‘preferred destination’

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