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The Latest Breaking News from Kemi Badenoch

Four claims from the 2025 Budget debate fact checked

Full Fact takes a look at claims about tax thresholds, NHS appointments, unemployment and house building.

Evening Standard

Wes Streeting makes damning BMA claims in explosive letter to GPs

The Health Secretary and the BMA are in dispute over changes to how patients can contact their family doctors

The Independent UK

Has Rachel Reeves broken her manifesto promises with the budget?

Reeves told MPs she had stuck to her pledges. Responding, Kemi Badenoch said the opposite. Who is right?

The Guardian - UK

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Millions more dragged into paying higher income tax in Reeves’s £26bn Budget squeeze

Chancellor admits ‘I am asking ordinary people to pay a little more’ as she unveils dozens of tax rises, but finally scraps the much-criticised two-child benefit cap

The Independent UK

OBR’s leak was the only leak Reeves wasn’t responsible for in pre-budget shambles

Chancellor tried a different approach to this budget, revealing all her plans and causing chaos before she even delivered it

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch takes aim at Reeves over chancellor’s complaints of misogyny

Kemi Badenoch used her Bidget speech to launch an extraordinary attack on Ms Reeves, accusing her of ‘whining’ over sexism claims

The Independent UK

Budget 2025: Renters braced for price hikes after Rachel Reeves hits landlords with tax increase

The Conservative leader says Rachel Reeves’s plan to increase taxes on rental income will force landlords out of the market and leave tenants paying the price

The Independent UK

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Rayner should pay back ‘avoided’ tax if she returns to Cabinet – Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch claimed the Prime Minister is considering bringing back Ms Rayner because he is ‘desperate to shore up his crumbling leadership’.

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves says Labour does not need to raise taxes in Budget in resurfaced clip

Rachel Reeves vowed not to increase taxes in the Budget, a resurfaced clip shared by Kemi Badenoch shows.

The Independent UK

Budget 2025: Reeves claims freezing tax thresholds in budget does not breach manifesto pledge – as it happened

Chancellor says she will not ‘get into semantics’ when questioned on issue after her statement

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch calls on Wes Streeting to stop puberty blocker trial

The Health Secretary has said the trial will ‘provide better evidence for how the NHS can support and treat young people with gender incongruence’.

Evening Standard

Cleverly distances himself from Hollinrake’s Reform UK jibe

A Tory split has opened up after Kevin Hollinrake appeared to liken the Reform UK logo to a Nazi badge.

Evening Standard

Tory row erupts over jibe comparing Reform logo to Nazi badge

Conservative leader intervenes after party chair’s controversial tweet about Nigel Farage’s party

The Independent UK

Badenoch defends Tory chairman over Nazi jibe at Reform

Kemi Badenoch said Kevin Hollinrake’s response to a Reform UK emblem was intended as a joke.

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Evening Standard

Kyle seeks to reassure business over workers’ rights concerns

Business Secretary Peter Kyle promised a series of consultations would listen to firms’ concerns on how the Employment Rights Bill is implemented.

The Independent UK

Government must make ‘hard choices and change course’, CBI boss to say

Rain Newton-Smith will tell ministers and business leaders that firms are worried the UK could ‘risk getting locked in a stop-start economy’.

Evening Standard

Badenoch to take aim at ‘anti-growth’ employment rights reforms

She is expected to say the Employment Rights Bill is ‘the single most complained-about measure’ she hears when she speaks to businesses.

The Independent UK

Seven out of 10 Tories believe Conservative Party will prop up a Farage government

With polling suggesting the Tories are facing a wipeout, a survey of Conservative Party members reveals they support the idea of a deal with Reform UK

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Evening Standard

Conservatives are set to plunge to just 14 seats at next general election

Party insiders are said to be alarmed by the research

The Guardian - UK

‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger

He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’

The Independent UK

Conservatives must apologise for their disastrous handling of Covid

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The Covid inquiry’s conclusion that the needless loss of 23,000 lives was due to government decision-making at the start of the pandemic, made worse by the toxic and chaotic leadership of Boris Johnson, has yet to make many leading Tories of the day sufficiently penitent

Evening Standard

Fact check: What has Labour pledged on income tax?

Ahead of next Wednesday’s Budget, Full Fact looks at the detail of Labour’s manifesto commitments.

The Independent UK

Starmer refuses to rule out freeze on income tax thresholds in Budget

Labour prime minister under pressure from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer refuses to rule out income tax thresholds freeze at Budget

The Prime Minister dodged questions about the Chancellor’s plans at PMQs

Evening Standard

Starmer refuses to rule out freeze on income tax thresholds ahead of Budget

The Prime Minister declined to answer numerous questions from Kemi Badenoch on the issue.

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