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The Latest Breaking News from Margaret Thatcher

Labour’s poll lead is fading and the base is weak – it’s time for Starmer to roll the dice

The PM can at least take comfort from the fact that the Tories are struggling just as much as he is

The Guardian - UK

Meet the young families stuck in their starter homes thanks to the UK housing crisis

The arrival of a child is as good a reason as any to upsize, but this is no longer an option for many ‘second steppers’, says Guardian deputy Opinion editor Kirsty Major

The Guardian - UK

The biggest TV shows to watch in 2025: from The Night Manager to Reacher season 3

There’s a lot to get excited about this year

Evening Standard

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Many great prime ministers overcome a shaky start – but Keir Starmer’s window is closing fast

Successful PMs learn on the job, and Labour’s leader needs to start 2025 by showing his party and the country he has done so, writes biographer Anthony Seldon

The Guardian - UK

No 10 Visitors Books released to the National Archives

Signatories include the late Queen Elizabeth II, Nelson Mandela and Ugandan dictator Idi Amin.

The Independent UK

Murdoch, Musk, water firms … Here are the ‘winners’ in another torrid year for business

As 2025 dawns, we look back at the star players over the last 12 months of economic drama, mishap and scandal

The Guardian - UK

Lord too ‘bitchy’ to lead North-South negotiations, records show

Among nine names proposed by Unionists, the Irish side determined that George Thomas, Lord Tonypandy, is ‘widely disliked’ at the House of Commons.

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You Can’t Please All: Memoirs 1980-2024 by Tariq Ali review – an exasperating entertainment

The leftwing intellectual may be a master of self-justification, but in this book he is clever, cultured and good company

The Guardian - UK

The bitter final showdown over British coal, as sun sets on ‘dirtiest fuel’

The county of Cumbria in northern England is the battleground for a war raging over plans to build a new coal mine.

Al Jazeera

Voices: Kemi Badenoch’s war on sandwiches makes her look even more out of touch

COMMENT: As the Tory leader reveals her aversion to the classic British lunch staple, and how she can’t abide ‘moist’ bread, Sean O’Grady says such gluten intolerance surely means she’s toast at the next election

The Independent UK

The Last Days of Liz Truss? review – endgame at No 10 is tip of the iceberg

The former PM’s brief tenure is raked over to seriocomic effect in Greg Wilkinson’s play, which raises major political questions

The Guardian - UK

Rivalry, ambition and the threat from the Right: Can Kemi Badenoch resuscitate the Tories?

The new Conservative party leader is less than two months into the job, yet reviews are already mixed

Evening Standard

Government considering nationalising British Steel amid rescue efforts

It would mark an end to 36 years of private ownership after Margaret Thatcher passed the British Steel Act in 1988

The Independent UK

Sir Kit McMahon obituary

Deputy governor of the Bank of England who helped to rescue the Midland Bank from collapse in the late 1980s

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Ministers considering renationalising British Steel if rescue plan fails

Exclusive: Move would be last-ditch attempt to save thousands of UK jobs amid standoff with company’s Chinese owners

The Independent UK

Five writers on the five books they’d give for Christmas

BOOKS: The Independent’s writers look back on the literary year and select the very best books to gift your loved ones this festive season

The National (Scotland)

Read Christina Hendry's full tribute to her uncle Alex Salmond

CHRISTINA Hendry was among those to pay tribute to Alex Salmond at the former first minister's memorial service on Saturday.

Wallpaper

From activism and capitalism to club culture and subculture, a new exhibition offers a snapshot of 1980s Britain

The turbulence of a colourful decade, as seen through the lens of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications, is on show at Tate Britain until May 2025

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‘We had no alternative’: Reeves defends her budget to the CBI

Chancellor tells business leaders she stands by tax rises and points to Labour’s pro-growth policies

Evening Standard

John Prescott's career highs and lows as the former deputy prime minister dies aged 86

Prescott passed away on Wednesday after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his family announced

Evening Standard

Eric Morecambe’s lifetime of treasures to go under the hammer

The entire contents of the comedy legend’s home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, will go up for sale after the death of his beloved wife Joan in March.

The Guardian - UK

‘Thatcher would have known’: Pat Finucane’s family hope to finally learn truth about his murder

Announcement of a public inquiry could expose collusion by those at highest levels of UK government

The Conversation

35 years after The Satanic Verses controversy, newly unearthed letters reveal some uncomfortable truths

Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is famous for his forthright statements to other world leaders. In March 1989, Mahathir wrote a letter to then UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that was blunt even by his standards. Unlike a lot of his angry letters, this one wasn’t published.

Evening Standard

The downfall of The Guardian: from The Observer sale to quitting X, and potential job losses

With Labour in power, the paper should be driving the agenda – instead, it’s at war with itself

The Guardian - UK

The Rev Donald Reeves obituary

Progressive Anglican clergyman radicalised by an urban ministry social project in Chicago

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