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Labour 'in the game' for 14 Scottish seats at Westminster, Anas Sarwar claims

ANAS Sarwar has claimed that Labour will be “in the game” in as many as 14 Scottish constituencies in the next General Election.

The National (Scotland)

Rishi Sunak’s unlikely friendship with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni — a symbol of the Tories’ right-wing turn?

She’s spoken highly of Mussolini and is known for her nativist views — what does it say about Sunak’s political intentions? Katie Strick reports

Evening Standard

Scotland will not be ‘drag on Labour ticket’ at next election, says Sarwar

Labour only have one MP in Scotland.

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Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

The Guardian - UK

Anas Sarwar: We’ll set out the positive case for backing us to boot out the Tories

The Scottish Labour leader and Record columnist say the party conference comes at a time of change at Westminster – with Truss taking over from Johnson – but the issues stay the same.

Daily Record

Nationalist Meloni set to smash Italy's glass ceiling, become premier

In 2019, Giorgia Meloni made a speech that came to define her: "I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, I am a Christian, and you can't take that away from me," she told cheering supporters.

Reuters

Netflix confirms release date of The Crown Season 5 with new cast as the royal family

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The week in theatre: Handbagged; The Cherry Orchard; Clutch – review

Moira Buffini’s damning satire imagining the Queen’s weekly meetings with Margaret Thatcher acquires poignancy; James Macdonald directs Chekhov in outer space; and a driving lesson for us all

The Guardian - UK

Moving the British embassy to Jerusalem would be an outrage

Liz Truss’s pledge to Israel’s Yair Lapid to review the location has appalled the Palestinians and breaks international consensus

The Guardian - UK

Scottish Government will continue its ‘fairer’ approach to tax, says minister

Richard Lochhead spoke out in the wake of Friday’s mini budget from the UK Government.

The Independent UK

Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng have made a declaration of class war

This unofficial budget is morally indefensible, economically reckless and so risky it suggests a political death wish, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

The Guardian - UK

Kwarteng package has ‘biggest tax cuts since 1972’, says leading economist

‘It is half a century since we have seen tax cuts announced on this scale,’ according to Paul Johnson, director of the IFS .

The Independent UK

Why Liz Truss is no Margaret Thatcher when it comes to the economy

The UK’s new prime minister, Liz Truss, has made no secret of her admiration of her late predecessor, Margaret Thatcher. However, anyone expecting a swift return to Thatcherite policies in 2022 should probably take a closer look at Truss’s politics.

The Conversation

Who is Kwasi Kwarteng, the UK’s first Black chancellor?

And how does he plan to save the UK’s imperilled economy?

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The Guardian - UK

When Trussonomics arrives, the big winner may well turn out to be Labour

The PM’s assault on economic orthodoxy is a leap in the dark with every prospect of backfiring spectacularly, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

Welcome to the First Blokes club! What can Hugh O’Leary expect as the prime minister’s husband?

Denis Thatcher seemed happy to do nothing but booze and play golf. Jacinda Ardern’s fiance throws himself into fishing. How will Liz Truss’s spouse cope with being in the spotlight?

The Independent UK

Special Relationship no more? Joe Biden and Liz Truss have much to disagree about ahead of their first meeting

The US president is governing on an agenda that is the polar opposite of the new prime minister’s plans for Britain, writes Richard Hall

The Independent UK

At UN, Truss aims to show UK can still lead on world stage

British Prime Minister Liz Truss is at the UN on a mission to convince the world that she is a steely leader for tough times

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Wales Online

The party that once had a chance of breaking Labour and Tory dominance of politics

Former Welsh Labour MP Gwynoro Jones has co-authored a book which reveals behind-the-scenes rows that helped wreck the prospect of the Conservatives and Labour being replaced in power by a centrist alliance in the 1980s, reports Political editor-at-large Martin Shipton

The Guardian - UK

What Charles can learn from the bond between the Queen and my grandfather

Nelson Mandela understood that ‘Elizabeth’, as he called her, provided exactly what Britain needed during times of change, says Ndileka Mandela

Chronicle Live

Who gets a state funeral, when the last one was and how it's decided

The Queen personally asked for the last state funeral to be held following the death of a Prime Minister, but not every leader got - or wanted - one

The National (Scotland)

Return to Thatcher’s economic policies likely to fail this time, says academic

THE UK Government’s long-awaited “mini-budget” will be delivered this week, with experts warning attempts by Liz Truss to repeat the…

Tribune News Service

Biden-Truss meeting shifted from London to UN General Assembly

WASHINGTON — British Prime Minister Liz Truss will meet U.S. President Joe Biden in New York next week for the first time since taking office, shifting plans for a brief session in London during commemorations for the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US-UK Relations Enter New Chapter as New PM, King Settle in

President Joe Biden heads to the United Kingdom on Saturday to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in US-UK relations, as both a new royal and a new prime minister are settling in. The hawkish approach of Prime Minister Liz Truss to Russia and…

The Independent UK

US-UK relations enter new chapter as new PM, king settle in

President Joe Biden heads to the United Kingdom to pay his respects to Queen Elizabeth II at a time of transition in US-UK relations, as both a new royal and a new prime minister are settling in

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