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The Guardian - UK

What the papers say – October 28

Here are the stories making headlines to start off the week.

The Independent UK

George Kerevan: How a Trump win would undermine Rachel Reeves’s Budget game plan

HANG on to your economic hats. On Wednesday, Rachel Reeves will present her long-awaited Budget. Keir Starmer’s Labour Party will have to put up…

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Keir Starmer gambles tens of billions more in tax and borrow Budget to invest in ‘new future’ for Britain

The Prime Minister warns the nation of the ‘harsh light of fiscal reality’

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer vows to ‘embrace harsh light of fiscal reality’ ahead of budget

PM will defend Labour plans in speech and insist working people need better public services more than lower taxes

The Guardian - UK

Labour suspends MP Mike Amesbury after video appears to show him punching man

Footage appears to show MP for Runcorn and Helsby knocking man to ground before aiming six more blows at his head

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer appoints former Blair and Brown aide as his political director

Claire Reynolds, the director of Labour Women’s Network, will take on task of liaison between No 10, party and MPs

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OBR to publish breakdown of claimed £22bn ‘black hole’ on budget day

Former chancellor Jeremy Hunt says decision to publish findings of review on Wednesday is ‘significant concern’

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP Mike Amesbury suspended as new CCTV shows him ‘punching man to the ground’

Amesbury, the MP for Runcorn and Helsby, has been voluntarily interviewed under caution by police

Evening Standard

New video appears to show Labour MP punching man repeatedly

The footage has been published by the Mail Online and appears to show the MP standing facing another man before he punches him.

The Independent UK

Scottish Greens will vote against SNP Budget if it cuts council funding

Scottish Green members have sent a stark warning to the SNP, setting out the party’s “red lines” ahead of Scottish Budget negotiations ...

The National (Scotland)

Greens will 'push SNP to end funding for firms arming Israel' in Budget negotiations

THE Greens will push for the Scottish Government to end funding for firms arming Israel in Budget negotiations ...

The National (Scotland)

Scottish Greens reveal ‘minimum needed' for party to support SNP Budget

THE Scottish Greens have set out the "very minimum" the party needs to support the forthcoming SNP Government Budget.

The National (Scotland)

The long-awaited Labour budget needs to show the party knows what to do with power

A strategy of raising taxes, spending and borrowing all at the same time to fund investment has risks, but it has a logic too

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Kemi Badenoch in row with BBC Scotland presenter over ‘voluntary union’ comments

KEMI Badenoch has fumbled over whether Scotland is in a “voluntary union” whilst appearing on BBC Scotland’s Sunday Show ...

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s tax rises will not hit workers’ payslips, minister vows

Bridget Phillipson says employees will not see higher taxes as Rachel Reeves prepares to deliver first Labour budget

The Independent UK

Labour MP Mike Amesbury street incident ‘a matter for the police’, says minister

Mr Amesbury said he will ‘co-operate with any inquiries’, after footage circulated online seemed to show him berating a man who was lying on the road.

The Guardian - UK

It’s hard to fill a budget black hole if you’ve ruled out raising income tax

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves were so desperate to win the election that they deprived themselves of the best tools for fixing their bleak ‘inheritance’

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The Independent UK

What the papers say – October 27

Here are the biggest stories leading Sunday’s front pages.

Evening Standard

Budget will bring ‘era of growth’ for Scotland, vows Murray

The Scottish Secretary was speaking ahead of Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s spending statement on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

Reeves: ‘My budget will match greatest economic moments in Labour history’

The chancellor says she will invest to reverse Tory decline, but stands accused of breaking party manifesto promises

The Guardian - UK

Tensions as three protest marches converge in central London

Opposing marchers from left and right kept apart by police as Chris Kaba’s family hand in note to Downing Street

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves has promised not to raise taxes, so how can she fill budget coffers?

Chancellor said to be planning measures including raising employer NI contributions and capital gains tax rates. We consider the likelihood of each and the potential for a row

The Guardian - UK

Why we decided to back a motion to close the Women’s Equality party

Setting up the WE was not so much brave as a no-brainer, but the world has changed

The Guardian - UK

‘This is personal’: Reeves reveals her motivation and relishes moment in history

Driven by memories of a childhood under the Tories, the chancellor prepares to deliver a budget she hopes will be seismic in its scope

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