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'Ambitious Starmer has air of Blair - but he's thinking big on how to fix broken Britain'

Compared with Tony Blair’s modest proposals, Keir Starmer is offering five major 'missions' to transform Britain and, as Jason Beattie writes, he is thinking big on how to fix a Britain broken by years of incompetent Tory rule

Daily Mirror

Britain scraps interviews for 12,000 asylum seekers to speed up process

Britain will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt to clear record levels of backlogs.

Reuters

Vietnamese trafficker gets sentence lowered over UK refugee deaths

Belgian court of appeal on Thursday lowered the prison sentence for Vietnamese trafficking gang leader Vo Van Hong over the manslaughter of 39 compatriots who suffocated in an airtight shipping container smuggled into Britain in 2019.

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Britain's salad crisis could last another month

Britons may face shortages of salad staples, including tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers, for up to another month, the government said on Thursday.

Reuters

Intense talks, familiar wrangles as UK, EU seek Brexit reset

Senior U.K. and European Union officials are meeting as part of what Britain calls “intensive negotiations” to resolve a thorny post-Brexit trade dispute that has spawned a political crisis

The Independent UK

U.K. supermarkets forced to ration fresh fruit and vegetables

Grocery stores are limiting how much fresh produce British shoppers can buy.

Fortune

Ukraine supermarkets full of fruit and veg as UK rations

Photos come from Ukraine as environment secretary Thérèse Coffey says Britain could face month of shortages

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Keir Starmer's 'five missions' for Britain explained - can Labour achieve them?

Labour leader Keir Starmer set out his plans for a better Britain in a major speech in Manchester. Here's what his 'five missions' for the future of the country are and whether they can be achieved

Daily Mirror

What are Keir Starmer’s ‘five missions’ for government?

The Labour leader asserted that his proposal would restore ’Britain's future’.

Evening Standard

What are Keir Starmer’s five ‘missions’ for future Labour government?

Labour leader says his plan will fix ‘fundamental’ problems facing Britain and give the UK the ‘confidence’ to move forward as a country

The Independent UK

OPINION - The Standard View: Unlike previous elections, in Keir Starmer the Tories face a plausible future prime minister

Sir Keir Starmer launched what he termed his ‘five missions’ for Britain with the confidence of a man 20 points ahead in the polls, but he will also know there is only one poll that counts for who gets to run the country. The themes he set out provide a…

Evening Standard

Huge Ukrainian flag painted on road outside Russian Embassy in London

A group of activists poured hundreds of litres of yellow and blue paint onto the road outside the Russian Embassy in London on Thursday to create an enormous Ukrainian flag ahead of the one year anniversary of Moscow's invasion.

Reuters

Starmer promises to ruffle feathers with new ‘missions’ for Britain

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said his plan for mission-driven government would put an end to ‘sticking plaster’ fixes to the nation’s problems.

The Independent UK

Good School Food Awards: Jamie Oliver aims to celebrate the ‘unsung heroes’ of Britain’s school food system

Jamie Oliver said he wants to show “big love” to the food educators, teachers and catering teams that work so hard to feed the country’s youngsters

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Keir Starmer sets out five key pledges ‘to give Britain back hope and confidence’

Starmer apes Blair as he vows important role for private sector

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer to set out Labour’s five ‘national missions’ for Britain

Pledges include higher growth and an NHS ‘fit for the future’

The Independent UK

Sir Keir Starmer admits achieving economic growth pledge will be ‘tough’

The Labour leader has unveiled five ‘missions’ outlining his plans for government if the party wins the next election.

Reuters

Explainer-What is the Good Friday Agreement and when was it signed?

The Good Friday Agreement largely ended the "Troubles", three decades of violence that had racked Northern Ireland since the late 1960s. It was signed on April 10, 1998 - which fell that year on Good Friday in the Christian Easter holiday.

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Suella Braverman tells GB News Britain is a 'bit shy about its greatness'

HOME Secretary Suella Braverman has said that Britain can be “a bit shy about our greatness” in an interview with GB News.

The Independent UK

Ukraine war – latest news: UN calls for Putin’s army to withdraw but China abstains

Six countries oppose move to isolate Russia and 32 abstain

Financial Times

Joshua Reynolds’ ‘Portrait of Omai’ is a national treasure. Why is Britain struggling to keep it?

The fight to save the iconic work reflects a painful truth about the UK’s financial state

The Independent UK

Britain is the (empty) basket case of Europe as supermarkets ration fruit and veg

Ex-Sainbury’s boss among those blaming Brexit as industry warns shortages will last weeks

The Independent UK

Supermarket rationing - latest: Tesco joins Asda, Aldi and Morrisons by introducing limits

Tesco is latest supermarket to limit purchases of peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes to three units per person

Manchester Evening News

Thieves steal from charity shop run by Britain’s kindest plumber after receiving free baby supplies

'It’s just so wrong on every single level'

The Independent UK

Therese Coffey booed by farmers after refusing to accept food shortage failure

‘We can’t control the weather in Spain’, says enviornment secretary

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