The Latest Breaking News from Angela Rayner

It comes as temperatures in parts of the UK surpassed 30C this week, during the fourth heatwave of the summer

COMMENT: Party strategists are busy working out how to escape the chancellor’s doom loop of tax rises – and to crush damaging speculation about her boss’s ability to lead his party into the next general election. But the race to replace the PM may already have begun, says Andrew Grice

Sir James Cleverly has demanded the Government share its assessments of how the move would hit local newspapers.

COMMENT : As a KPMG study lays bare years of falling job openings, and with the unemployment figure refusing to shrink, Britain’s bosses are stuck in hiring limbo that only Rachel Reeves can get them out of, says James Moore

Charlie Falconer calls on party colleagues to rediscover energy and not risk losing credit for big achievements

The meeting comes amid debates between Washington and London about the best way to end the wars between Russia and Ukraine, as well as Israel and Hamas.

Holiday diplomacy is an exercise in soft power, so let’s make the most of this

Angela Rayner’s proposed reforms are ill-conceived and fail to address the system’s inherent unfairness, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Ministers face backlash after analysis of proposed shake-up finds more than 10% drop in finance for some areas

Angela Rayner has asked China to un-redact parts of the plans that had been ‘greyed out’ in the application

Unlike many of my contemporaries on the opposite side of the political divide, I don’t underestimate Angela Rayner. Which other figure active in politics today could leave school at 16 — without any qualifications — and then rise to become one of the most powerful Cabinet ministers in the land?