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Schools say concrete surveys were sent back month ago after receiving ‘telling off’ letter from government

The row over crumbling concrete is growing as schools claimed they filled in safety surveys “months ago”, after the Education Secretary told headteachers to “get off their backsides” and send back the forms.

Evening Standard

When is the autumn statement 2023? Inheritance tax expected to be cut

Unlike his predecessor, the chancellor will be presenting an Office for Budget Responsibility forecast alongside the statement

Evening Standard

Shapps will ‘fight the corner’ on bigger defence budget

The new Defence Secretary has indicated that he will seek increased funding for the armed forces, as he warned critics not to ‘underestimate’ him.

The Independent UK

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Wagner Group set to be declared a terrorist organisation

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps defended the time it had taken to make the move.

The Independent UK

OPINION - Sadiq Khan has shown courage on Ulez, but now he needs to stop ignoring knife crime

Whether you’re violently anti or hysterically pro-Ulez, you have to admit that it demonstrated admirable qualities in our Mayor, Sadiq Khan. He showed us he can be refreshingly intractable and dogged, that he doesn’t mind upsetting people under incredible pressure from half of London, and even his own party leader.…

Evening Standard

When things get tough for government, call in Grant Shapps, the perfect schmoozer

It was once said that no minister could coherently lead a Whitehall department in under two years. Shapps seems to believe he can do it in two days, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Guardian - UK

Sunak has limited upheaval, Hunt insists after Cabinet ‘turbulence’

The Chancellor said Rishi Sunak does not care about the ‘personalities’ involved.

The Independent UK

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For all Rishi Sunak’s desire to be a big world player, Brexit has ensured a walk-on part

Despite their ‘Global Britain’ rhetoric, both the UK’s soft and hard power has diminished under 13 years of Conservative rule

The Guardian - UK

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin’s legacy; Ukraine captures key village on the southern Zaporizhzhia front; life on the ISS at a time of war

The Guardian - AU

Worst of Westminster: Foulkes wages war on 'elected dictatorship'

Welcome to this week’s Worst of Westminster newsletter, brought to you by political reporters Steph Brawn and Hamish Morrison.

The National (Scotland)

Quiz of The Week: 26 August - 1 September

Lately, it can seem as though Britain is crumbling around us. A number of schools in England have had to close while hundreds of others will have to do without buildings that are at risk of collapse, the government announced this week, leaving thousands of pupils facing a return to…

The Week

It’s the little things that we hang on to

Brief letters: Remembering loved ones | The art of whistling | Superior female surgeons | Ulez vandalism | Recycling Grant Shapps

The Guardian - UK

Full list of names in the Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet

The cabinet has gone through a lot of changes in the past year

Evening Standard

Grayson Perry channels his inner Bob Dylan with music video

The artist laments middle-class guilt in a musical remake

Evening Standard

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The Week

Is Britain’s infrastructure failing?

“We need to talk about the dire state of British transport infrastructure.” So wrote John Burn-Murdoch, chief data reporter for the Financial Times (FT), on Twitter.

The Independent UK

New defence secretary’s YouTube account was hacked because password was as easy as ‘1234’

Uneasy Tory MPs have taken to WhatsApp to re-share the story of how Grant Shapps explained the hack

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: Grant Shapps is the UK’s new defence secretary – but is he up to the job?

In today’s newsletter: The former energy secretary starts his fifth cabinet post in the past year, but questions remain about his military nous

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Swedish lawmakers to boycott Nobel ceremony following Russia invitation – as it happened

The Nobel Foundation said invitations for the 2023 events were extended to all countries with diplomatic missions in Sweden and Norway

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The Independent UK

MPs and military chiefs question ‘yes man’ Shapps as new defence secretary - UK politics live

Sir Richard Dannatt, the former head of the Armed Forces, says Shapps knows ‘very little’ about defence

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 555 of the invasion

Russia-installed authorities hold elections in occupied parts of Ukraine; Kuleba hits out at critics of counteroffensive

The Independent UK

Ukrainian MP urges new Defence Secretary Shapps to ‘personally visit Ukraine’

Inna Sovsun, deputy leader of the Holos Party, hopes Grant Shapps will gain a ‘better understanding’ of the situation in Ukraine.

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: critics of counteroffensive are ‘spitting in the faces of soldiers’, says Kyiv – as it happened

Ukraine’s foreign minister also says critics of the offensive’s slow progress should ‘shut up’

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s new cabinet: disloyalty and disunity exposed by shake-up

Editorial: Divided parties lose elections, but this reshuffle shows that the prime minister lacks the means to unite the Conservative tribe

Evening Standard

OPINION - Defence Secretary Wallace’s successor & Ukraine ‘super drones’: The Leader podcast

Grant Shapps parachuted into MoD & secrets of Kyiv’s long-range UAVs

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak excels in his summer job of making Tories look unelectable

PM’s autumn agenda will be one of desperate hope after months of one bad headline after another

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