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Voices: There’s more to the Bayeux Tapestry loan deal than meets the eye…

COMMENT: Arranging for the historic depiction of the Norman Conquest, the Battle of Hastings and the killing of King Harold to ‘come home’ for the first time in 900 years is nothing short of a diplomatic triumph – but could it also open the door to the British Museum handing…

The Independent UK

George Osborne was on No 10 list to be UK ambassador to US, Keir Starmer’s biographer says

Sources confirm claim likely to cast further doubt among Labour MPs about judgment of Downing Street aides

The Guardian - UK

Welfare U-turn makes spending decisions harder, Bridget Phillipson admits

A change in the two-child benefit cap is now less likely

The Independent UK

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In Pictures: Tearful politicians showing their sensitive side

Rachel Reeves became tearful during PMQs on Wednesday, but she’s far from the first politician to cry over the years.

Evening Standard

Liz Kendall ignores call from Labour MP for welfare bill to be withdrawn – as it happened

Andy McDonald says MPs are being asked to vote without vital evidence but work and pensions secretary says employment support programmes are being improved

The Guardian - UK

There hasn’t been a ‘big chancellor’ since Osborne: IFS chief gives final mark

As he steps down after 14 years, Paul Johnson says politicians and voters refuse to accept economic tradeoffs

The Guardian - UK

Voices: The spending review will reveal how far the government has been blown off course

COMMENT: In her last-man-standing battle with the Treasury, Yvette Cooper has shone a light on how Starmer’s administration is now quietly tacking to the left, says Sean O’Grady

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Wake-up call for Labour: Football fans aren’t the only ones using expletives about Starmer

NEWS ANALYSIS: Politicians becoming the subject of expletive-laden chants by fans of football – or any sport – is historically bad for political careers, explain David Maddox and Kate Devlin

The Independent UK

Mel Stride promises the Tories won’t repeat the mistakes of Liz Truss – except they already have

It’s a mistake to think that, when it comes to the UK economy, the Conservatives have always been seen by British voters as a safer pair of hands than Labour. But, notwithstanding the damaging austerity imposed on the country by David Cameron’s chancellor, George Osborne, it was, by and large,…

The Conversation

Truss should be banned from ever running as Tory candidate again to show ‘we get it’, says former minister – as it happened

Conservative party urged to ‘draw a line’ under the Liz Truss era and never again endorse her as candidate

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Calling David Cameron a ‘man baby’ for resigning over Brexit is childish

COMMENT: The personal barbs in a new, behind-the-scenes memoir offer a fittingly pathetic caricature of the Conservatives’ big beasts, says Sean O’Grady – they are also a reminder of how the party is the biggest Brexit loser of all

The Independent UK

OPINION - Rivalry, resentment, entitlement and a girl crush — the extracts from Sarah Vine’s memoir remind us what really matters in politics

Forget every other reading matter – put down your 250th anniversary copy of Pride and Prejudice and toss Bill Clinton’s thriller, First Gentleman, to one side – because the required reading right now is the extracts now being published from Sarah Vine’s memoir, How Not to be a Political Wife.

Evening Standard

Ready to ‘enjoy a few beers’ with Nigel Farage, leftwing hero? This is what Labour has left us with

Britain’s most talented opportunist now claims Reform is the ‘party of the workers’. He’s occupying terrain wilfully vacated by Keir Starmer, says author Samuel Earle

The Guardian - UK

Hubris, crisis and scandal: how the NatWest ‘soap opera’ unfolded

From Fred ‘the Shred’ Goodwin to Nigel Farage ousting the CEO, it’s been a bumpy ride for the now-privatised banking group, formerly RBS

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By delaying its child poverty plan, Labour has a chance to reverse 15 years of inequality

As a former chancellor, I know this challenge can only be met in a budget. But Starmer and Reeves must not waste their chance, says former UK prime minister Gordon Brown

The Independent UK

Why Canadians might want to beware what they have wished for with Mark Carney

NEWS ANALYSIS: Mark Carney has pulled off a stunning victory in Canada but his legacy in the UK from his time as governor of the Bank of England is mixed, David Maddox writes

The Guardian - UK

George Osborne and Ed Balls podcast censured for Viagogo promotion

Regulator rejects claim by presenters that most events on the resale site had tickets selling at below face value

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves must break her fiscal rules. Better now than later

There is already arguably too little flexibility in the chancellor’s budget plan. Trump’s tariffs chaos makes a rethink inevitable

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The Independent UK

Controversial two-child benefit cap ‘plunges extra 30,000 children into poverty since Labour came to power’

Eight anniversary of the welfare limit, brought in by former Tory chancellor George Osborne as one of his austerity measures, this weekend

The Independent UK

Is this the new austerity? What the numbers say

With the chancellor announcing around £4.8 billion of cuts to welfare spending over the next five years, Alicja Hagopian looks at whether the UK is returning to the austerity policies of ther 2010s

The Independent UK

Reeves to take on unions in showdown over austerity Budget

A defiant chancellor will deliver her spring statement against a background of threats from trade unions and discontent from the Labour left

The Guardian - UK

What are Rachel Reeves’s fiscal rules and could they be changed?

What are the economic constraints that underpin the chancellor’s spring statement – and why does she see them as vital?

The Guardian - UK

‘Does it score?’ How the OBR became the key arbiter of the Treasury’s sums

Chancellor has very little headroom within her fiscal rules but is keen to keep Office for Budget Responsibility on side

The Guardian - UK

These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too

The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Rising bill for benefits has wreaked ‘terrible human cost’, says Keir Starmer

PM defends welfare cuts amid disquiet in Labour over plan charities say will push more disabled people into poverty

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