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Virtually all new Chancellors raise taxes in their first Budget. But few plan to do so by quite as much as Rachel Reeves. The much-vaunted £22 billion fiscal blackhole seems to be growing ever wider, with reports swirling that the Chancellor is seeking to raise up to £40 billion in…

Former Daily Record editor says he could not make personal commitment to lead changes party requires

Each had an hour to show why they are the future – until the next Tory debacle means another contest. They barely managed that, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The spectre of the Reform party has been haunting the Tories since the general election. There is a general consensus that Reform split the vote on the right of the ideological spectrum, and this significantly contributed to the Tory defeat.

The rumoured rise in national insurance on employers makes sense. As for claims Labour promised not to do that: it didn’t, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

PM meets Biden, Macron and Scholz at pivotal moment for global conflicts

MURRAY Foote has resigned as the SNP’s chief executive ...

Work and pensions minister says government will not go ahead with Tory plans but needs to make savings

ALEX Salmond’s coffin will be draped in a Saltire before it is flown home to Scotland later on Friday ...

Conservatives close the gap with Labour to its lowest level since Boris Johnson was in Downing Street

KEIR Starmer has been told to “listen to voters” and block his Chancellor’s plans to impose deep cuts in this year’s Budget ...