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Court reforms vital to tackle ‘scandalous disgrace’ of backlog, says Ken Clarke

The Tory grandee backed plans to reduce the number of jury trials and create a new type of crown court where cases are heard by judges.

Evening Standard

Prominent Brexiteer declares he is a French farmer as takes sideswipe at EU

A Tory former Cabinet minister presses the Government in Parliament over its ‘reset’ deal with the bloc.

Evening Standard

Voices: Rachel Reeves is relying on a risky strategy – that may well backfire

COMMENT: The chancellor’s approach can hardly be considered prudent – especially when it depends so heavily on economic growth, writes John Rentoul

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

City Comment: Why have arbitrary rules on government finances?

Evening Standard

Growing calls for Ken Clarke to be stripped of his peerage over infected blood scandal

Damning final report of the official inquiry into the tragedy accused the Tory grandee of ‘indefensible’ actions and ‘misleading’ the public

The Independent UK

How is Ken Clarke involved in the infected blood scandal and could he lose his peerage?

The Independent looks at what Lord Clarke is accused of, and why campaigners want his peerage removed

The Independent UK

OPINION - Jeremy Hunt's Budget sold us the Big Lie of British politics — that we can afford our spending

No one wants Jeremy Hunt to be Chancellor. Labour doesn’t, obviously — the party has its own candidate, albeit with largely the same spending plans and fiscal rules. Rishi Sunak doesn’t — he wants to be his own finance minister. The Tory Right still pines for Truss-onomics, the SNP doesn’t…

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Jeremy Hunt gave us a hit-and-run budget. But unlike cornered chancellors past, he showed no shame

The Tories can see the writing on the wall – so they are intent on wrecking things for an incoming Labour government, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Tory Big Beast Ken Clarke savages Rishi Sunak’s flagship Rwanda Bill which suffers five Lords defeats

The Prime Minister has previously warned the Lords against frustrating ‘the will of the people’

Evening Standard

Lords pass five amendments to Rwanda bill in heavy defeat for Rishi Sunak

Peers, including senior Tories, vote by margins of about 100 votes for changes to legislation, which will have to go back to Commons

The Guardian - UK

Toxic budgets: the UK chancellors who left a poisonous legacy

Before an election, chancellors often try to woo voters with tax cuts that leave the incoming government in a hole. Here are six ‘poison pill’ speeches

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher was right: Tory moderates have no power over the party’s ruthless rightwing extremists

The civilising influence of the ‘wets’ is a myth. The party’s angriest elements always end up back in the driving seat, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s Rwanda plan faces more hurdles as Tory peers condemn policy

Conservative opposition in the House of Lords could prolong wrangling over bill’s implementation

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Election polls predict big Labour win but parallels with Tony Blair's 1997 landslide end there

Blair surged to power with a Nineties soundtrack of optimism and Tory economic success. For Keir Starmer, if the polls are right, it will be a case of hard graft from day one, writes George Chesterton

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Hunt risks chancellor’s curse with toast at pub

Is Hunt tempting the fates by drinking at The Two Chairmen?

The Independent UK

Jeremy Hunt signals he will cut taxes in budget amid criticism it jars with planned benefits squeeze

Chancellor thought to be considering inheritance tax cut – despite being warned it would be ‘stupid’

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rishi Sunak has fallen flat on his Rwanda policy — because he danced to Nigel Farage's tune

Ignore the technical talk about treaties, conventions and legislation. The Supreme Court ruling on the Government’s Rwanda deportation policy is just one more story of a Conservative leader dancing to Nigel Farage’s tune and falling flat on his face.

The Independent UK

Tory big beast Ken Clarke praises Rachel Reeves’s ‘responsible’ economics in coup for Labour

The former Conservative chancellor said he had been impressed by the shadow chancellor

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National novelties: Marshall races Gerry's Triumph and Ginetta creation debuts

Marshall reunion: Gregor races Gerry's Triumph

Evening Standard

OPINION - Drill, baby, drill: Rishi Sunak junks the Tory green brand

I’m afraid I have what might be shocking news – Ken Clarke is quite right-wing. He may hold heterodox views on Europe (a conviction that cost him the party leadership on multiple occasions), but Clarke’s reputation as a Tory ‘wet’ belies both his record and his admiration for Margaret Thatcher.

The Independent UK

Numbers making risky English Channel crossing ‘still too large’ says No 10

Rishi Sunak’s pledge to ‘stop the boats’ has run into a series of difficulties in the English Channel, the courts and the House of Lords.

The Independent UK

Ken Clarke: Doing nothing about illegal immigration is not an option

It comes as 1,070 migrants crossed the Channel in 13 boats on Friday and in seven boats on Saturday, according to Home Office figures.

Glasgow Live

Remembering 22 people who have died in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and Paisley this month

Our thoughts are with all those who have lost a loved one.

Manchester Evening News

The Mancunian Way: TikToking from Strangeways in a dressing gown

Why did an inmate scale the roof of Strangeways and stay there for 12 hours?

Manchester Evening News

Strangeways protestor daubs 'FREE IPPZ' on the roof - what the sentence means and why it's so controversial

The Imprisonment for Public Protection sentence (IPP) was abolished in 2012 and branded 'unjust'

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