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Councils ordered not to adopt four-day week over 'failure' fears

Four-day working weeks have been said to boost morale and productivity amongst staff

Evening Standard

Free parking in London: Boroughs under pressure to follow Harrow's one hour with no charge

Local MP Bob Blackman stressed the benefits of free parking during a Commons debate

Evening Standard

Constance faces ministerial code investigation in grooming gangs comments row

The Justice Secretary has been accused of misrepresenting the views of expert Professor Alexis Jay in Holyrood.

Evening Standard

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Reform council’s plan to shut eight care homes ‘a betrayal of local people’

Announcement after proposed sale falls through prompts backlash and union says more than 200 jobs at risk

The Guardian - UK

Good Friday Agreement wording on border poll is ‘workaround’, McDonald says

Mary Lou McDonald said the clause around a border poll was the ‘beating heart’ of the Good Friday Agreement.

Evening Standard

Former Tory councillor in court accused of drugging and raping ex-wife

Philip Young appears at Swindon magistrates court charged with 56 offences relating to 13-year period

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves faces Labour revolt over pubs being hammered by huge increases in business rates

The Chancellor is being urged by landlords and some MPs to rethink the controversial policy

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Tuesday briefing: What would a Reform-led country look like?

In today’s newsletter: Local government may offer some answers – after winning 677 council seats, Reform’s triumph quickly gave way to reports of chaos, infighting, and scandal

The Guardian - UK

Aberdeen MSP sends P45 to Starmer over predicted loss of oil and gas jobs

The document has been sent by special delivery.

Evening Standard

Non-crime hate incidents ‘to be scrapped’ in favour of ‘common sense’

The chairman of the College of Policing said that the system would be ‘scrapped and replaced with a completely different system’

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Keir Starmer told closer EU trade ties ‘strategic necessity’ for UK firms

Labour urged to accelerate reset with Brussels as many exporters struggling to trade in the EU after Brexit deal

The Guardian - UK

West London Labour council suffers second Tory defection in six weeks amid scandals

The former Labour councillor said: ‘Locally and nationally, the Labour Party is driving our community and the country to the brink’

Evening Standard

Labour calls to rejoin EU customs union will become harder for Starmer to resist

Wes Streeting’s wish for deeper trade relations to help fight against Farage is shared by growing number of MPs

The Guardian - UK

Let me tell you the good things the government has done in 2025 – because it certainly won’t

It’s all there: more apprenticeships, more rights for workers and renters – and most of all, a focus on children. What a shame Labour wavers about saying so, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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London leader speaks out after Labour councillor fined £40k for hiring illegal worker

Hounslow councillor Hina Mir employed a nanny in her west London home who had no right to work in the UK

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves sets early March date for spring statement as OBR prepares forecast

Treasury announces 3 March date to prioritise ‘stability and certainty’ after criticism of buildup to November budget

Evening Standard

No 10 denies dodging scrutiny after axing afternoon press briefings

No 10 conceded the changes would be ‘difficult’ and kept ‘under review’ but insisted they were necessary to ‘modernise’ Government communications.

Evening Standard

Council tax: Cheapest London borough refuses Government offer of two-year emergency hike in bills

Wandsworth vows to keep taxes as low as possible, while Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea and Hammersmith and Fulham also unlikely to use new powers

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Starmer faces leadership challenge if Labour hammered in May local elections, warns his own veteran MP

The PM would have failed to ‘put the show on the road’ if Labour gets a drubbing in the town hall polls, Graham Stringer MP is warning

Evening Standard

Jeremy Clarkson more worried about Keir Starmer replacement than China or Russia

The TV personality banned the Prime Minister and all Labour MPs from his Oxfordshire pub

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s difficult year: denial of hard choices is no longer an option

Editorial: All the incentives in Westminster politics militate against confronting difficult issues, but a failing government may as well try honesty

The Guardian - UK

Dining across the divide: ‘A lot of English people living in Scotland have a visceral reaction when you say you want independence’

They disagree on the EU, and both think Brexit was a terrible idea. Do they feel the same about opportunities for young people?

The Guardian - UK

‘You’re barred!’: Labour’s battle with pubs promises a new year headache

A protest barring MPs from pubs is exposing deeper tensions between politicians and the communities they represent

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer will ‘absolutely’ be PM next Christmas, Labour chairwoman says

Anna Turley also insisted people would start to feel the change promised by the Government ‘in their pockets’ over the next year.

Evening Standard

£20m spent on Commons since IndyRef, SNP says

The party obtained the figures under a freedom of information request.

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