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'Disgraceful': Michael Shanks ignores pledge to oppose Keir Starmer on two-child cap

SCOTTISH Labour MP Michael Shanks has been labelled “disgraceful” for failing to honour his commitment to vote to scrap the two-child benefits…

The National (Scotland)

If we keep breaking economic rules, let's ditch the rules

City Comment: Why have arbitrary rules on government finances?

Evening Standard

Starmer dodges questions on two-child benefit cap rebellion in first PMQs as PM

Prime minister counters SNP questions with statistics on Scottish child poverty after stripping seven MPs of whip

The Guardian - UK

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Keir Starmer attacks SNP for child poverty 'lectures' with election results dig

KEIR Starmer has said he will not take “lectures” from the SNP on child poverty as he attacked the party for bringing up his support for the…

The National (Scotland)

Keir Starmer clashes with SNP Commons leader Stephen Flynn over child poverty after 7 Labour MPs suspended

Prime Minister acts ruthlessly against first rebellion within his Government

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan: Government must scrap two child benefit cap 'as soon as it can'

The mayor said he ‘fully supports’ the Government’s Child Poverty Taskforce

Evening Standard

Sunak faces long goodbye as he fills in during Tory leadership contest

It’s likely to be a gruelling few months for former PM but his party hopes it buys them time to find a future winner

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London's first multibank expected to help 40,000 families in need

Felix Project to give out 400,000 essential goods such as tolietries and bedding over 12 months

Evening Standard

The big idea: why we need to stop former prime ministers cashing in

Ex-PMs once ran cricket clubs and bred cattle, but the role is now a trampoline to self-enrichment

The Guardian - UK

Labour need to remove two-child benefit cap immediately amid ‘unacceptable’ levels of poverty, MPs say

Debate over two-child benefit cap a ‘defining issue for the new Labour government’, John McDonnell says

The Independent UK

Rachel Reeves doubles down on refusal to scrap two-child benefit cap

Scrapping the policy would lift an estimated 300,000 children out of poverty

The Independent UK

Gordon Brown launches London’s first ‘multibank’ amid UK child poverty fears

Ex-PM is opening the capital’s first facility based on Fife model, supplying basic necessities against backdrop of concerns for child wellbeing over the summer holidays

The Guardian - UK

Gordon Brown calls on ministers not to scrap T-level qualification

Conservatives had announced end of vocational qualification introduced in 2020, while Labour plans to review it

The Guardian - UK

Labour will rightly be judged by how it fixes our problems. But never forget who left the UK in such a rotten state

Although Cameron and Osborne have been rebranded as Tory moderates, look back to 2010 and you’ll see how much devastation they truly caused, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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The Conversation

The chancellor has tied her own hands with her fiscal rules – here’s why she should change them

The new government has made boosting economic growth its central goal. Chancellor Rachel Reeves wasted no time in announcing changes to the planning system designed to encourage more housebuilding and infrastructure investment.

The Independent UK

When US presidents and UK prime ministers met for the first time – from hand-holding to ‘political soulmates’

Sir Keir Starmer and Joe Biden’s working relationship may be different to that of forerunners, such as Theresa May and Donald Trump, and Gordon Brown and Barack Obama

The Guardian - UK

Rage as Putin bombs a children’s hospital in Kyiv, but know there is a way to try him for his crimes

I support the Council of Europe plan to hold the Kremlin to account, says Gordon Brown, UN global ambassador for education

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair’s new dawn of 1997 offers landslide lessons for Keir Starmer

The Guardian’s political editor in 1997 recalls the optimism then and what went wrong in the transition from opposition to power

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The Guardian - UK

Who are the key people inside Labour’s leadership team?

The chiefs of staff, special advisers and policy strategists guiding Keir Starmer’s new government

The National (Scotland)

Former Tony Blair Scottish secretary appointed minister by Keir Starmer

FORMER Scottish secretary Douglas Alexander has joined Keir Starmer’s Cabinet as business minister ...

The Guardian - UK

Starmer installs non-political ministers in ‘government of all the talents’

Covid adviser Patrick Vallance and businessman James Timpson among appointments from outside Westminster

The Guardian - UK

My generation can barely recall the last time Labour was in power. We need to believe things really can get better

Young people are desperate to see how activism on climate, Palestine and the economy translates into policy, says writer Isabel Brooks

Al Jazeera

New PM Starmer names ministerial team after landslide UK election win

Rachel Reeves becomes the UK’s first female finance minister while David Lammy is appointed as foreign secretary.

The Guardian - UK

Who is in the new Labour cabinet?

With many MPs who served Blair and Brown, Starmer’s team is one of the most experienced in recent times

International Business Times

David Lammy: Friend Of Obama Now UK Foreign Minister

Britain's new foreign minister David Lammy, appointed Friday, is a trailblazing black lawmaker descended from slaves who calls former US president Barack Obama a friend.

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