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Shadow NI secretary unable to visit region due to lack of funds for trip

Alex Burghart said he had wanted to come to Belfast in the four months since his appointment but has not been able to secure the money from his party.

Evening Standard

Here is the real story of Labour’s historic budget – investment over decline

I know first-hand that secure work and a secure home are the foundations of a better life for ordinary Britons. That defines our mission, says deputy prime minister Angela Rayner

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - America's vicious election shows the surprising virtue of... apathy

My all-time favourite “line to take” – that is, the set of pre-agreed talking points politicians stick to – came from general election night 2001. Tony Blair’s Labour Party was romping towards a second successive landslide, and the media was searching for a more interesting story. Turns out, it was…

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‘She knows her history’: why Rachel Reeves wore a pussybow blouse on budget day

Chancellor’s clothing choice shrewdly followed fashion footsteps of Thatcher, Harris and 17th-century menswear

The Guardian - UK

Scottish councils call for 'fair share' of additional funding from UK Budget

SCOTLAND’S councils have written to the UK and Scottish governments calling for their “fair share” of the extra funding announced in the…

The National (Scotland)

Calls for Labour MP to 'fact check first' after false Scottish sewage leak claim

A LABOUR MP has been told to “fact check first” by members of the public after he falsely claimed there was a sewage leak at Portobello Beach.

The National (Scotland)

Labour detail plans to bypass Holyrood with £1.4bn 'direct investment' in Scotland

THE UK Government has announced plans for £1.4 billion of “direct investment” in Scotland over the next 10 years ...

The National (Scotland)

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Why it’s unfair to compare the current market movement to catastrophic Truss mini-Budget

ANALYSIS : Ignore the comparisons, writes Howard Mustoe – any suggestions that market concerns over Rachel Reeves’s Budget bear any similarity to the chaos that followed Liz Truss’s economic disaster are wide of the mark

The Independent UK

Vote to continue NI Brexit deal the ‘most significant’ in Assembly’s history

TUV leader Jim Allister said MLAs were being asked to ‘surrender’ sovereignty to Brussels.

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch is taking Starmer’s ‘say nothing’ approach – and it will come back to bite her if she wins

Sticking to broad platitudes and waiting for your opponent to fail is the wrong approach for a new-look Tory party, says ConservativeHome’s Henry Hill

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: Budget’s ‘clean bill of health’ from watchdogs should reassure investors, says Reeves – as it happened

Chancellor, on a post-budget visit to Newcastle, says ‘markets move all the time’

The Guardian - UK

UK still suffering from trauma of Liz Truss, says Treasury minister

Darren Jones says ‘we’ve all got PTSD’ from Truss’s 2022 mini-budget, amid market jitters after this week’s budget

The Guardian - UK

Labour government’s shift on Gaza not enough, say British Muslims, scholars

Despite the prime minister taking a slightly tougher line on Israel, the UK continues to supply weapons, avoid sanctions

Al Jazeera

It’s Trump’s playbook in the UK. Jenrick mining the Southport atrocity for votes shows he has learned it well

The Tory candidate seems happy to stoke far-right conspiracies for cynical political gain, happy to follow a terrible example, says Joe Mulhall of Hope Not Hate

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Jittery markets hold their nerve on Budget £32b borrowing as minister reassures: We've all got PTSD from Truss

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Darren said on borrowing the Government does not ‘think that we are pushing it to the limit’

The Guardian - UK

Splits in Reform UK as senior figures defend Tommy Robinson supporters

Howard Cox and Ben Habib take issue with chair saying party wants nothing to do with Robinson and ‘all of that lot’

The Guardian - UK

After Reeves’s historic budget, Labour has time to pursue its revolution. What it needs now is public trust

The government is operating in an unforgiving time and lacks capital with voters. It will be crucial to address that, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Evening Standard

Chancellor seeks to calm markets amid jitters after Budget borrowing spree

The Budget increased state spending by almost £70 billion per year funded by increased taxes and borrowing.

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Fares hike blow for Londoners as union decision on Tube strike go-ahead is awaited

RMT executive meets to decide whether to suspend strike - first walkout due from 6pm on Friday

The Guardian - UK

How private equity convinced Labour to go easy on its multimillion pound tax perk

The lobbying coup of the decade saw a major climbdown on the chancellor’s planned raid on carried interest

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Brexit and the Tory leadership: a cycle of radicalisation

Editorial: The party has gone too far down the path of Eurosceptic delusion to have a rational debate about its legacy

Evening Standard

Opposition parties offer to ease through Israeli imports law before election

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said passing the bill at the end of the Dail term would ‘send a powerful message’.

The Guardian - UK

This Labour budget is austerity by another name

Letters: Politicians including Jeremy Corbyn and MPs from the Green party and Plaid Cymru respond to the chancellor’s plans. Plus a letter from Peter Riddle

The Guardian - UK

Labour can’t properly rebuild our economy outside the single market

The Conversation

Labour’s first budget: redistribution away from the rich after over a decade of Conservative rule

Labour’s first budget in 14 years appears to have avoided the Halloween nightmares that many predicted. Yes, the overall tax burden is at its highest level since 1948, but this budget’s tax and spend distribution is such that it spreads both the pain and the benefit. Most of the pain…

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