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Voices: This baffling Chagos deal will forever haunt Keir Starmer

COMMENT: The roll call of British politicians who put their fingerprints on the decision to transfer sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius contains no fools – and yet the deal the prime minister has just signed looks foolish, says John Rentoul

The Independent UK

The least ‘integrated’ part of British society isn’t the immigrants – it’s the elite

Politicians and the rightwing press talk about integration in a selective and politically loaded way. The reality is quite different, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner pushed for middle-class families to lose child benefit, leaked memo reveals

The latest revelation about the deputy prime minister points to tensions behind the scenes in the Labour cabinet

The Independent UK

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One third of people back restoring winter fuel payments to all pensioners – poll

The Prime Minister said this week that he wanted to look at widening eligibility for the payments worth up to £300.

Evening Standard

Voices: The Washington DC shootings have bought Netanyahu international sympathy – for now

COMMENT: The killing of two Israeli embassy workers outside a Jewish event in the US capital shocked the world – but it will also have grave diplomatic repercussions, says Mary Dejevsky

The Independent UK

Martin Lewis gives verdict on Starmer’s winter fuel U-turn and Labour’s benefits cuts

Sir Keir Starmer announced the policy reversal amid a mounting backlash from Labour MPs – with a pledge to make more pensioners eligible for the winter fuel payment

The Independent UK

Bono calls for Israel to be ‘released from Netanyahu’

Musician also called for Hamas to ‘stop the war’ as he and his band U2 accepted a fellowship at the 2025 Ivors in London

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Keir Starmer 'wants Hamas to remain in power', Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu claims

ISRAELI prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rebuked Keir Starmer and other close allies, claiming that by criticising him they “want Hamas to…

The National (Scotland)

Estate agent ordered out of her historic £19m London mansion after losing battle with bank

Deborah Fiorentino, the former wife of both Italian aristocrat Giovanni Fiorentino and celebrity British divorce lawyer RaymondTooth, ran up massive arrears after taking out a £17.85m loan

The Independent UK

‘Declining’ is the most common word associated with Britain, damning poll shows

Exclusive: Seven in 10 voters feel ignored by politicians, fuelling the rise of Reform UK, a report by an influential group of Labour backers warns

The Independent UK

Netanyahu accuses leaders of Britain, France and Canada of ‘emboldening Hamas’

Israeli PM criticises leaders after their call for halt to Gaza offensive and restrictions on humanitarian aid

The Guardian - UK

Benjamin Netanyahu accuses Sir Keir Starmer of ’emboldening Hamas’

The Israeli leader’s comments come after two Israeli embassy staff were killed in Washington DC.

Evening Standard

From the day Britain left the EU, this reset was inevitable. What a pointless waste of time, money and effort

Keir Starmer is not blameless when it comes to Brexit, but he is moving in the right direction. Even the Tories attacking him know that, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

UK Returns Chagos Islands to Mauritius in Landmark Deal—But Resettlement Questions Remain

Prime Minister Keir Starmer emphasised the base's critical role in national security and intelligence operations.

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The Independent UK

Labour ‘should not aim to copy right-wing populism but offer new solutions’

“When parties don’t have new ideas, they reach back for old ones, or imitate others,” a new report says

Evening Standard

Labour ‘should not aim to copy right-wing populism but offer alternatives’

The IPPR also said Labour cannot rely on rehashing the ideas of ‘yesterday’s men’ to maintain public trust.

Evening Standard

UK and France slam Netanyahu's 'wrong side of humanity' attack on Starmer, Macron and Carney after DC shootings

Armed forces minister Luke Pollard flatly rejected the accusations made by Israel’s Prime Minister

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Kemi Badenoch Just Took Keir Starmer Apart and It Was Brutal to Watch

After months of what felt like playing it safe, Kemi Badenoch finally found her stride at Prime Minister’s Questions and tore into Keir Starmer in a way that had the Commons buzzing

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The Guardian - UK

Is Angela Rayner positioning herself for a Starmer succession race?

Whoever leaked deputy PM’s memo to the Telegraph, some believe it will have helped her leadership chances

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Starmer’s U-turn: change direction – or keep losing support

Editorial: Labour’s pivot to welfare cuts and targeting of rightwing voters has backfired. If the party leadership won’t adapt, the public will move on

Evening Standard

Starmer defends Chagos deal as Badenoch criticises multibillion ‘surrender tax’

Sir Keir Starmer said the agreement to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius secured the ‘vital’ Diego Garcia military base.

The Conversation

Starmer’s winter fuel allowance ‘U-turn’ sets him on a tricky path with backbenchers and voters

The U-turn is a long and, depending on your point of view, honourable or dishonourable tradition in British politics. Now Keir Starmer has been accused of following this tradition after heavily hinting the UK government is reconsidering last year’s decision to deny the winter fuel allowance to millions of pensioners.

The Guardian - UK

Net migration to UK down by half in 2024 compared with year before

Office for National Statistics estimate shows fall from 860,000 in 2023 to 431,000 last year

Euronews

UK hands sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius after last-minute legal delay

Under the agreement, the UK will pay Mauritius €120 million each year to lease back their military base for at least 99 years.

The Guardian - UK

Yeah but no but yeah but no but surrender. Life’s just one big betrayal for Kemi and co

Be it winter fuel, criminal justice, the EU or Chagos Islands, never miss a chance to try to rewrite Tory history

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