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The Latest Breaking News from Downing Street

Several senior female Labour MPs drop out of party deputy leader contention

Compressed timetable and worries about potentially toxic atmosphere narrows field to replace Angela Rayner

The Guardian - UK

What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: how Boris Johnson traded PM contacts for global business deals

Exclusive: Leak exposes how former leader has used publicly subsidised office to manage commercial interests

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian view on Labour’s deputy leadership race: a party that seems afraid of its members

Editorial: Downing St may want to avoid scrutiny of its performance but debate is needed, not control-freak choreography

The Guardian - UK

Union leaders warn of ‘massive backlash’ if Starmer axes Rayner’s workers’ rights charter

Union delegates fear the cabinet reshuffle is ‘a right-wing coup’ and warn Starmer the workers’ rights package is a ‘red line’

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer strategist leaves post after just two weeks

A STRATEGIST appointed to work on Keir Starmer’s Government reset has left the role after just two weeks.

The National (Scotland)

Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes

Prime minister faces criticism from Emily Thornberry, who highlights risk of ‘handing country to Farage’

The Guardian - UK

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Crisis engulfs Labour as Angela Rayner is forced to step down as deputy PM

Starmer brings forward cabinet reshuffle to restore order but fallout likely to further damage party’s reputation

The Guardian - UK

Lammy made deputy PM and Cooper foreign secretary after Rayner’s exit

Shabana Mahmood to take over at Home Office as Angela Rayner’s departure hastens sweeping reshuffle

The Guardian - UK

Minister defends prospect of Government meeting Israeli president in UK

Douglas Alexander said the UK must engage with Israeli as well as Palestinian authorities.

Evening Standard

PM and Cabinet rally round Rayner amid property tax row

The Prime Minister and Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the Deputy Prime Minister their ‘full confidence’.

Evening Standard

Starmer declines to say if he will sack Rayner if she is found to have broken ministerial code – as it happened

Keir Starmer has said that he expects to get the report from his ethics adviser on Angela Rayner quickly

The Guardian - UK

While Starmer struggles with a broken system in Westminster, real power keeps leaking elsewhere

Far from No 10, Nigel Farage has been amassing power in the sprawling, networked space where 21st-century politics happens, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Rayner battling for political survival after referring herself to ethics adviser

Deputy prime minister expresses regret over mistake that led to underpayment of stamp duty on £800,000 flat

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‘A class act’: Tim Allan, the former Blair ‘smoother’ recalled to Downing Street

Described as inscrutable and smart, the PR man has a job on his hands to turn around No 10’s communications effort

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer to release new peerage list in attempt to bolster Lords influence

PM hopes list of Labour allies promoted to upper house will rebalance numbers and drive through legislation

The National (Scotland)

No 10 is a shambles. What Keir Starmer does next is key

KEIR Starmer’s government has returned from their summer break and decided to don an enormous glowing neon sign saying: “We’re in trouble and…

The Independent UK

The prime minister must not squander his second chance

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Keir Starmer and his chancellor Rachel Reeves have less than two months to devise a Budget that addresses people’s real concerns. A limited reshuffle of Downing Street personnel is a good place to start

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The Guardian - UK

Starmer seeks to wrest back policy control from Treasury in No 10 shake-up

Prime minister brings in chancellor’s deputy and former Bank of England chief to newly created senior roles

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner barred by court order from revealing tax details, says No 10

Deputy PM, under scrutiny over flat purchase, ‘restricted from providing further information’, says Downing Street

The Guardian - UK

Home secretary suspends refugee family reunion applications until new, tighter rules are put in place – as it happened

Yvette Cooper says rules were designed years ago to help families separated by war but are being used in a different way now

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer shakes up No 10 operation with mini-reshuffle

Exclusive: Darren Jones appointed to new senior role in charge of day-to-day delivery of PM’s priorities

The Guardian - UK

Is flying the St George’s cross a sign of racism or patriotism?

Letters: One reader has been subjected to racist abuse, another says there is nothing wrong in expressing affection for one’s country. Plus letters fom Jane Ryan, Michael Pyke and Hugh Coolican

The Guardian - UK

The budget, immigration, Trump’s visit: the tests lying in wait for Keir Starmer

There is no shortage of challenges for the PM as MPs head back to Westminster and he tries to get on the front foot

The Independent UK

Voices: Which heads will roll in Starmer’s Downing Street shake-up?

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: Keir Starmer’s principal private secretary is but the latest of his appointees to have been a disappointment to him – a full reshuffle of the PM’s longstanding, trusted aides is overdue, says Andrew Grice

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