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The Latest Breaking News from Kemi Badenoch

Who is Alex Burghart? The Tory frontbencher facing Angela Rayner at PMQs

The MP for Brentwood and Ongar who once stood against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North

Evening Standard

Tories say Labour is weakening national security with plan to decommission drones, warships and helicopters – as it happened

Defence secretary John Healey announced moves including decommissioning two Navy flagships as part of plans to save up to £500m

The Guardian - UK

No hiding place for Labour’s farming minister as Whitehall teems with tweed and gumboots

Farage cosplayed Mr Toad, Victoria Atkins troubled all fashion sense, but Steve Reed won the turnip for his flailing defence of inheritance tax changes

The Guardian - UK

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Farmers protest in London over inheritance tax shake-up but Rachel Reeves holds firm

Nigel Farage, Sir Ed Davey and Jeremy Clarkson slammed Labour’s tax changes

Evening Standard

Government facing calls to scrap ‘family farm tax’ as farmers march on Whitehall

Ministers insist they back British farmers, and say the inheritance tax changes will only affect the largest estates.

Evening Standard

Concerns raised over fake politician accounts on Bluesky

A FAKE social media account has been set up to impersonate a former Tory leadership candidate.

The National (Scotland)

Nigel Farage more popular than other UK political leaders, poll suggests

NIGEL Farage is more popular than Keir Starmer and other UK political party leaders, a poll has suggested.

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Talks are a good place to start task of improving the UK’s social care

Productivity and quality in a sector that is its workforce will require even more money after national insurance rises

The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch’s first approval ratings as Tory leader worse than Sunak and Johnson

Liz Truss is the only former party leader of past five years to rank lower in terms of starting popularity

The Guardian - UK

Essex police defend their investigation of Allison Pearson tweet

Force says Telegraph writer accused of inciting racial hatred, rather than committing a non-crime hate incident as she had claimed

The Guardian - UK

What the papers say – November 16

Here are the stories making headlines this Saturday.

Evening Standard

Workers affected by Port Talbot closures to get up to £10,000 to start businesses

Exclusive: Welsh secretary to announce £80m funding to help 2,800 Tata steelworkers and local economy

The Guardian - UK

Police probe of journalist Allison Pearson over social media post ‘absolutely wrong’, says Kemi Badenoch

Kemi Badenoch said people should not be reporting others to the police ‘because they don’t like something’

Evening Standard

Fact check: Council’s four-day week means staff paid 100% for 80% of usual hours

A social media user has hit out at Kemi Badenoch’s claim that a four-day week for councils is ‘part-time work for full-time pay’.

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Digested week: Snail’s pace payments, a dodgy knee and gullible hounds

As the Post Office Horizon inquiry ends, Gary Lineker aside and Donald Trump makes some mad picks

The Independent UK

Tories close in on Labour in the polls as Badenoch’s appointment takes votes off Farage

The weekly tracker poll by Techne UK for The Independent shows that the Tories have taken six points off Labour’s lead since Kemi Badenoch became leader

The Guardian - UK

A dream day for Labour as opposition is reduced to noises off

Reeves is untroubled by a financially illiterate Tory leader, while Starmer allows himself a minor celebration

The Guardian - UK

Council tax bills could rise by 5% after Labour keeps cap in place

Rise would be almost three times above current levels of inflation and add £100 to average family’s bills

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The Guardian - UK

Kemi Badenoch is her own worst enemy … and a gift for Keir Starmer and Labour

PMQs takes detailed preparation, timing and a razor-sharp mind – none of which the leader of the opposition has yet demonstrated

Evening Standard

Council tax increase expected as Tories claim ‘black hole’ in Labour’s plans

Sir Keir Starmer’s press secretary confirmed the threshold for council tax increases will remain at 5%.

Evening Standard

Badenoch predicts council tax rises on the cards amid ‘black hole’ claim

The Conservative leader raised the issue during Prime Minister’s Questions with Sir Keir Starmer.

The Guardian - UK

The Long Wave: How Juls journeyed the Black Atlantic to curate his sound

From Brazilian percussion to South African amapiano, the British-Ghanaian DJ and producer is building musical links across the diaspora

The Independent UK

Watch: Starmer faces Badenoch at PMQs as failing hospitals to be named and shamed

Watch again as Sir Keir Starmer faced Kemi Badenoch at Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, 13 November, following the announcement of Labour’s plans to name and shame failing NHS hospitals as part of a package of measures aimed at tackling poor performance.

The Guardian - UK

The difference between Starmer and Badenoch that really matters? Their approach to Trump

The new Tory leader has rushed in to praise Trump and call for a US-UK trade deal that would devastate British farmers, says Starmer’s biographer, Tom Baldwin

The Guardian - UK

UK will allay Trump concerns over Chagos Islands, says minister, as Priti Patel says Tories opposed to deal– as it happened

Stephen Doughty, foreign office minister, says if UK had not negotiated a deal with Mauritius, ‘a legally binding decision against UK seemed inevitable’

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