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Mike Yarwood dead: Comedian and impersonator passes away aged 82

He became a household name with his ability to mimic politicians and other public figures

Evening Standard

Audience groans as Tory MSP claims she'd bring back David Cameron

A TORY MSP left the audience groaning as she claimed she would bring back David Cameron as prime minister.

The National (Scotland)

Lace ruffles and gold trousers: Britain’s most strikingly dressed prime ministers

Leaders who dared to make style statements, from Disraeli’s purple trousers to May’s gold leather trousers

The Guardian - UK

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Rishi Sunak’s green backtracking contrasts strongly with previous prime ministers’ efforts

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak appears to be wavering on “net zero by 2050” that Theresa May successfully passed through parliament with barely a cough of disapproval in 2019.

The Conversation

Yes, the Tories kept Uxbridge. But the general election will be a referendum on Sunak, not Ulez

With a local dispute swaying voters, the result in Boris Johnson’s old seat did not accurately reflect the national mood

The Guardian - UK

‘Lightweight’ Betjeman was initially overlooked for poet laureate

Newly released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over the prestigious literary appointment

Evening Standard

No 10 dismissed ‘songster of tennis lawns’ Sir John Betjeman as poet laureate

Newly-released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over prestigious literary appointment

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No 10 turned down poets John Betjeman, Philip Larkin and Robert Graves for laureate job

Newly released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over the prestigious literary appointment

The Independent UK

‘Lightweight’ Betjeman overlooked for poet laureate

Newly-released government files reveal bitter in-fighting over the prestigious literary appointment.

The Independent UK

Starmer’s Labour are not the Tories. But they are timid

The opposition must accept there will be huge challenges if they win the election. But they do not have to accept Brexit

The Guardian - UK

Half-smoked Churchill cigar and pipe owned by Wilson among items being auctioned

The items belonging to the former PMs are being auctioned on July 19.

The Independent UK

It’s Brexit that cranks up inflation. Don’t just blame the Bank

Policymakers are too quick to slow the economy and risk recession when the solution is to rejoin the EU

The Guardian - UK

Urge to soothe markets may blunt Labour’s edge on Tories

Scaling back of green prosperity plan reflects a possibly costly desire to project fiscal stability

The Guardian - UK

Lord Morris of Aberavon obituary

Veteran Welsh Labour MP who served for more than 40 years and became attorney general in the late 1990s

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Daily Mirror

Sir Tony Blair leads tributes to Labour peer Lord Morris, who has died aged 91

The former Prime Minister said the ex-Attorney-General was "immensely capable, could always be relied upon and never deviated from having the interests of the country at heart"

Wales Online

'Grandfather of Welsh devolution' Lord Morris of Aberavon dies aged 91

Sir Tony Blair said Lord Morris of Aberavon lived a life of 'exemplary public service'

Evening Standard

Labour former attorney general Lord Morris of Aberavon dies aged 91

Sir Tony Blair said his ‘extraordinary career, being a minister under three different Labour leaders, was unprecedented’.

The Guardian - UK

Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t like talk of a hung parliament, but he needs to prep for one

The legacy of the 2019 defeat makes it very challenging for Labour to get to a parliamentary majority in one go

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The Guardian - UK

Britain is the most socially liberal it’s ever been. Could somebody let our politicians know?

Today’s seemingly limitless supply of reactionary politics looks increasingly out of step with reality, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Ignore the detractors – Keir Starmer is a radical who can transform the country

He could marshal the progressive tradition that has always eluded the liberal left

Daily Mirror

'Tony Blair's invasion of Iraq is a warning to Keir Starmer on defence spending'

The Labour leader must bear his predecessors in mind over the Labour Party's policy on defence, an area has historically been a sticky issue for the Labour Party

The Guardian - UK

Philip Ziegler obituary

Diplomat and historian who wrote magisterial biographies of Harold Wilson, Lord Mountbatten and Edward Heath

The Conversation

Keir Starmer: four lessons from history for an opposition trying to be the 'government-in-waiting'

Labour’s Keir Starmer has one inestimable quality in leading a government-in-waiting a year out from a general election: a consistent 20-point lead in opinion polls.

The Guardian - UK

Pulled! A timeline of TV taken off air

Move over Match of the Day … here’s a look at the most contentious shows that have had to be cancelled, featuring giant pickled penises, melting eyeballs – and footage Thatcher forced the police to seize

The Conversation

Silicon Valley Bank: how interest rates helped trigger its collapse and what central bankers should do next

A former prime minister of Britain, Harold Wilson, is famous for remarking that a week is a long time in politics. But in the world of finance, it seems everything can change in just two days.

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