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Rishi Sunak's PM rating falls to lowest ever for major party leader and same level as Jeremy Corbyn - new poll

Exclusive Ipsos survey for The Standard also dashes hopes among some Tories that replacing Mr Sunak would boost their party’s fortunes

Evening Standard

Thursday briefing: What’s behind the allegations against Angela Rayner? And does anyone really care?

In today’s newsletter: Labour’s deputy leader has been accused by Tory MPs and the rightwing press of unfairly profiting from her council house sale – here’s why

The Guardian - UK

Starmer can’t dodge the Europe question for ever. In office, the economy will answer it for him

Closer alignment between a Labour government and the EU is a certainty. But the divisive binary choices of 2016 are ancient history, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Tory ‘attack dog’ reheats failed ploy used against Starmer to go for Rayner

MP Richard Holden, who is behind re-opening of inquiry into Labour deputy leader, also sparked Covid-era beer and curry furore involving the leader

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour and Brexit: a subtle but important strategic pivot

Editorial: The opposition is right to recognise that a dangerous international climate demands closer security partnership with the EU

The Guardian - UK

Trump's eclectic inner circle in London: from Nigel Farage's former adviser to pop princess Holly Valance

Nigel Farage, Woody Johnson and Holly Valance are among those expected to attend a glitzy Trump fundraiser in London tonight — so who else has made it into the former POTUS’ UK power base? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

Tory MPs limp into PMQs after finally accepting their fate

A party resigned to oblivion made for a sulky session that did Rishi Sunak and the Commons no favours

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PMQs sketch: Liz Truss is gone from No10 but still haunts Rishi Sunak

PM hits back at Labour attacks over Truss book by telling Keir Starmer to read Angela Rayner’s tax advice instead

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: Angela Rayner walks a tricky tightrope over tax row

It is the local election issue Labour would rather not talk about. The party’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, is now facing a police investigation into multiple allegations relating to electoral law and capital gains tax, following the sale of her former council house nearly a decade ago. Rayner denies any…

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner 'has questions to answer' on home sale controversy being probed by police, says Cabinet minister

Greater Manchester Police are investigating the furore

Evening Standard

Labour’s foreign policy will be realistic about us as a nation, not nostalgic about what we used to be

Our guiding light will be progressive realism and an end to the reckless, gaffe-prone diplomacy of the Tory years, says shadow foreign secretary David Lammy

The Guardian - UK

Carers having to pay back thousands is very wrong, says Keir Starmer

Labour leader was responding to a question from the BBC about Vivienne Groom, who was prosecuted over breach of benefit rules

The Guardian - UK

Rish! tries for gravitas on Middle East but he’s just no longer a serious politician

Blamed for almost everything else these days, for Sunak the focus on foreign affairs was a blessed relief

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on local councils: they must meet the needs of communities, not just Whitehall

Editorial: Democracy’s link to the places that matter to people is being eroded, a concern given next month’s elections

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Angela Rayner handling house sale controversy ‘in right way’, says Yvette Cooper

Labour deputy leader being investigated over whether she gave false information a decade ago

The Guardian - UK

Don’t despair. History shows Labour even cash-strapped governments can be radical

Sir Keir’s team will inherit a poisoned chalice from the Tories, but progress needn’t depend on the state opening its wallet

Evening Standard

RAF jets deployed to shoot down Iranian drones heading to Israel

Aircraft in Iraq and Syria have been deployed to intercept ‘any airborne attacks within range of our existing missions,’ the Ministry of Defence said.

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s first 100 days: what is their grand plan for government?

If the party makes it to No 10, its leader must decide which policies to prioritise to give it the best start

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The Guardian - UK

Top Labour figures met financial services firms after £150k donation

OpenDemocracy investigation names attenders, including Keir Starmer, at Edinburgh meeting to discuss party’s banking policies

Evening Standard

Rayner property row a ‘storm in a teacup,’ shadow minister suggests amid probe

Jim McMahon bolstered Labour’s defence of the deputy leader on Saturday, saying many people will see the matter as a ‘storm in a teacup’.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson 'humiliated' not to be targeted in honey-trap scandal

Has BoJo lost his mojo?

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Tory attack on Angela Rayner is a political masterstroke but unlikely to shift the polls

You probably don't because it didn't happen, but remember that time Keir Starmer almost had to resign? Cast your mind back to the spring of 2022 and the Labour leader had promised to quit if he received a fixed-penalty notice for the beer and curry he consumed following an event…

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak duel on defence as Labour vows to back nuclear submarines

Starmer says Trident is ‘bedrock’ as he commits to spending 2.5% of GDP on defence

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer wants to be seen as a working-class PM. Deeds, not warm words, will determine that

People in my home city of Liverpool still see Labour as a ‘hold your nose’ option. That should worry the leadership, says the Guardian’s assistant national news editor, Aaron Sharp

The Guardian - UK

It’s fair that Angela Rayner is subject to scrutiny – but not if it’s based on snobbery

Labour’s deputy is of course accountable for any irregularity in her tax affairs. Yet this looks like class-based shaming, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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