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Rishi Sunak saves himself £12,700 by refusing to scrap tax breaks for private schools

Rishi Sunak, who sends both his daughters to private schools, benefits from a tax break that means parents do not pay VAT on fees. He will save himself £124,000 over the next decade

Daily Mirror

Starmer calls for change for Scotland 'in the Union' on visit to Glasgow

KEIR Starmer has said that a UK Government under Labour would bring change for Scotland – but insisted that such change would occur within the…

The National (Scotland)

NHS ‘sticking plaster’ will not solve underlying recruitment problems – Starmer

The Labour leader said he wants to see more medical students trained instead of the reliance on overseas workers.

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Starmer vows Labour would bring change in Scotland without indyref2

The Labour leader was speaking during a visit to Glasgow on Friday.

The Independent UK

‘We’re really boring right now’: Tories fret over flipside of Sunak stability

The party’s MPs are worried about how to be distinctive at the next election, a problem that is also troubling Labour

The Guardian - UK

What would politics look like if Starmer’s plan was working? Like it does now

His own party remains cautious, but Tories are pretty sure he is heading for No 10, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Labour by-election win shows public are ‘fed up’ with Tories, says Starmer

The party held on to the City of Chester with a majority of 10,974, delivering a defeat to Rishi Sunak in his first electoral test as Prime Minister.

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Labour in 'best position in 12 years' after strong Chester win

Labour leader Keir Starmer says result shows "people want change"

Liverpool Echo

Chester by-election analysis: Labour whitewash shows scale of challenge facing Rishi Sunak

Polling experts have warned Rishi Sunak he “has a lot of work to do” to stand a chance of holding on to power after Labour comfortably won the Chester City by-election.

Evening Standard

Sunak flunks first electoral test as Labour wins 'best ever' by-election result

The Tories lost the first by-election contested since Sunak became Prime Minister

The National (Scotland)

Poll finds 62% back Labour's plan to scrap tax breaks for private schools

Labour leader Keir Starmer wants to remove the charitable status of private schools that means parents don’t pay VAT on fees, but Rishi Sunak has rejected the idea

Daily Mirror

Top private schools attended by senior Tories avoid £65m in VAT due to charity status

Keir Starmer told the PM to 'end the Tory scandal' of massive tax breaks for private schools, which are able to escape paying VAT on their fees due to their charitable status

Daily Mirror

Rishi Sunak’s honeymoon period has become a shipwreck

The prime minister is now almost guaranteed to give the wrong response to any given question

The Guardian - UK

PMQs: Starmer calls for end to private school tax breaks

Red walls and blue walls, remainers and leavers, Bennites and Gaitskellites, these things come and go but one constant of British politics endures: dividing lines.

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PMQs analysis: Rishi Sunak had two easy tap-ins and Keir Starmer failed to finish clinically

Rishi Sunak had two tap-ins at the start of Prime Minister’s Questions.

The Independent UK

Starmer tells PM Labour will lend him the votes to pass planning reforms

His comments come days after the Government was forced to pull a vote on plans for mandatory, centrally-set targets to build 300,000 homes a year.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer attacks Sunak over tax benefits for private schools

Labour leader asks PM why he handed his old school Winchester £6m in taxpayers’ money

Evening Standard

Fossil fuel companies keep parties quiet to avoid activists

Shell has told employees to “avoid talking about” the boss’s leaving do

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Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer attacks Rishi Sunak on private school tax breaks - with £6m for PM's old school

The Labour leader used the weekly session of Prime Minister's to blast the "Tory scandal" of charitable status for independent schools as he declared "trickle down education is nonsense"

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer demands end to tax breaks that helped PM’s private school

Keir Starmer demands end to handouts which have helped give PM’s old school ‘a rowing club and extensive art collection’

Evening Standard

An unexpected vibe shift is making SW1A tribes put down the bayonets

Isn’t it lovely not to hear so much news about politicians these days? Since I make my living thinking and writing about politics I probably shouldn’t reveal this, but even I’m relieved by days when the headlines aren’t dominated by politicians yelling insults at each other about yet another mega-crisis.

The Guardian - UK

Prisoners to be held in police cells as jails close to full, justice minister says – as it happened

Damian Hinds says acute increase in prison population means he has requested temporary use of up to 400 police cells

Daily Mirror

Michael Gove once backed ending 'egregious' private schools' tax advantages

Rishi Sunak's Government has defended the charitable status of independent schools and claimed they have an 'important role to play in levelling up opportunities' - despite the Levelling Up Secretary's 2017 remarks

The Guardian - UK

If Labour’s leadership is hobbling internal candidates, is it fit to run a democracy?

Mounting evidence of dirty tricks against prospective MPs can’t be dismissed as leftwing sour grapes, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Daily Mirror

David Miliband hints at Commons comeback as he won't rule out standing at next election

Ex-Cabinet Minister David Miliband, who was defeated by brother Ed in the 2010 leadership election, refuse to shoot down suggestions he's planning a return to frontline politics

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