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Keir Starmer signals intent to directly control Scottish Labour on gender reform

KEIR Starmer has signalled that he will take direct control over Scottish Labour’s position on gender reform as it has become a “UK-wide…

The National (Scotland)

HMRC: Zahawi wouldn’t have been fined for ‘innocent’ mistake

Office away days – the heart truly sinks. Think dreary hotel conference rooms or, worse still, a muddy morning of paintballing followed by boozy ten-pin bowling. Once more with feeling: your cabinet colleagues are not your friends.

Evening Standard

Dining across the divide: ‘I was at Oxford, and people had to walk past a statue of a coloniser every day’

They might agree on Jeremy Corbyn, but are they as closely aligned on colonialism or the monarchy?

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Biden’s clean energy brainwave paves Britain’s way to post-Brexit growth. Dare we copy him?

Where the US leads in using state aid and subsidies, the EU is now following. But the UK will need a change of mindset, says the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

‘Dystopian’ that Starmer cannot say if women have penises, says Labour MP

Rosie Duffield suggested the Labour Party was fearful about speaking out in favour of women’s rights.

The Independent UK

No 10 forced to say Rishi Sunak has never paid a tax penalty amid Nadhim Zahawi row

The announement comes after pressure from Labour

The Independent UK

Nadhim, pray, blub: Rishi Sunak looks lost and bewildered at PMQs

PM has no reply when Keir Starmer observes he is hopelessly weak and suggests the job is too big for him

The Guardian - UK

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Keir Starmer’s private prescription for the NHS is dangerous

Letters: David Hinchcliffe says using the private sector for NHS patients directly undermines the service. Plus letters from Jeanne Warren, Dr John Puntis and Johnbosco Nwogbo

The Guardian - UK

Former Labour minister backs UK Government use of Section 35 order over gender reform

David Blunkett, who served as Home Secretary under Tony Blair, has waded into the gender reform row and backed the UK Government

The National (Scotland)

Investigation into Nadhim Zahawi tax affairs ‘expected to take around 10 days’

Minister says it ‘wouldn’t be untypical’ for a conclusion in the investigation by the PM’s ethics adviser to be reached within that timeframe

Evening Standard

No10 says Rishi Sunak has never paid a tax penalty after Labour says come clean

Earlier today the Prime Minister's press secretary repeatedly refused to answer questions over whether Rishi Sunak had ever been asked to pay a penalty by HMRC like under-fire Tory Nadhim Zahawi - but later clarified that he hadn't

Daily Mirror

PMQs: Rishi Sunak told ‘failure to sack Nadhim Zahawi shows how weak he is’ after tax controversy

Rishi Sunak faced a barrage of questions over Nadhim Zahawi’s tax dispute from Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer during Prime Minister’s Questions. Despite the PM’s spokesperson saying last week that Mr Zahawi had already addressed the matter in full, Mr Sunak admitted earlier this week that there are “questions that need…

Evening Standard

Sunak faces pressure over probation failings in Zara Aleena murder

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pressed Rishi Sunak on the matter during Prime Minister’s Questions.

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak grilled over probation failings that led to Zara Aleena’s murder

Sir Keir Starmer asks PM at PMQs if Government has ‘blood on its hands’ after failings that led to Jordan McSweeney being free to kill

Evening Standard

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The National (Scotland)

Tories scorched with Burns' Night 'parcel of rogues' burn over Zahawi tax row

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced numerous questions on the Tory party chairman’s finances during this week’s PMQs in the House of Commons.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer links Zahawi controversy to Sunak family’s taxes at PMQs

Labour leader and SNP make reference to former non-domiciled status of PM’s wife at question time in Commons

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak told probation service 'on its knees' in wake of Zara Aleena murder

The Labour leader slammed 'systemic failures' after a report found probation staff missed a 'catalogue of chances' to stop a man with a history of violence murdering the 35-year-old law graduate

The Independent UK

Failure to sack Nadhim Zahawi shows Sunak ‘hopelessly weak’, says Starmer

PM suggests it would have been ‘politically expedient’ to have fired Tory chairman

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Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer ridicules 'weak' Rishi Sunak for failing to sack Tory chair Nadhim Zahawi

The Labour leader blasted the Prime Minister saying he is 'overseeing chaos' and 'overwhelmed at every turn' as the Tory Chairman fights to keep his role in the Cabinet

Daily Record

Gordon Brown backs Douglas Alexander as former Labour minister eyes return to frontline politics

Douglas Alexander and Kirsty McNeill received endorsements from Gordon Brown for the twinned East Lothian and Midlothian seats

The Independent UK

Sunak to come under fresh pressure over Zahawi row at PMQs

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is likely to seize on the fallout from the multimillion-pound settlement Mr Zahawi agreed with HMRC when chancellor.

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak has never paid a penalty to HMRC, No 10 says, amid growing pressure over Nadhim Zahawi – as it happened

Downing Street releases statement after days of refusing to say whether or not PM ever paid a penalty to revenue body

Manchester Evening News

Labour's Lisa Nandy says 'our political system must change or die'

The Wigan MP and shadow minister is due to appear opposite Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove

The Conversation

How the ‘circus’ became the metaphor of choice in political rhetoric

In his 2023 New Year’s Speech, Labour leader Keir Starmer reiterated his criticism of the “Tory circus” as he lamented the apparently unbreakable but entirely avoidable cycle of crises at Westminster. “Nothing has changed,” Starmer said, “but the circus moves on. Rinse and repeat.”

The Guardian - UK

‘He doesn’t care’: Rishi Sunak is failing nurses and NHS, say voters in Stoke

In a focus group, residents of Stoke-on-Trent describe the health service as an ‘absolute mess’ and say the PM has just disappeared

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