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Reeves unveils record spending plans but experts warn of tax rises ahead

Chancellor announces £39bn boost for social housing, £29bn for NHS and £11bn for defence – and promises to close all asylum hotels as she takes a swipe at Farage and dismisses Tory warnings of a ‘cruel summer’ of tax rises

The Independent UK

Reeves will need ‘Corbynist catalogue’ of tax rises to back up spending – Tories

The Chancellor said the Treasury had ‘already drawn a line under the Tory mismanagement with tax rises last year’.

Evening Standard

How Robert Jenrick skewered Kemi Badenoch’s Tory leadership reboot

NEWS ANALYSIS: Party insiders want to lean into the Tory leader’s forthright personality, and ‘let Kemi be Kemi’ as they try to tackle the rise of Nigel Farage and Reform. Kate Devlin and David Maddox report

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Kemi Badenoch refuses to kick Liz Truss out of Conservative Party

The Tory leader suggested such a move would be ‘neither here nor there’ for voters’ perception of the party.

Evening Standard

Even Kemi Badenoch’s closest allies admit she needs to get better - but she may be running out of time

NEWS ANALYSIS: When the best thing the most senior member of a party leader’s team can say about them is that ‘she will get better through time’, then the Tories know they have a serious problem, writes David Maddox

The Independent UK

Liz Truss hits back at Tory shadow chancellor for mini-budget disavowal

Former PM accuses Mel Stride of being ‘creature of system’ after his formal repudiation of 2022 unfunded tax cuts

The Guardian - UK

Mel Stride promises the Tories won’t repeat the mistakes of Liz Truss – except they already have

It’s a mistake to think that, when it comes to the UK economy, the Conservatives have always been seen by British voters as a safer pair of hands than Labour. But, notwithstanding the damaging austerity imposed on the country by David Cameron’s chancellor, George Osborne, it was, by and large,…

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Like a rural bank manager, Sideshow Mel wades into the Tory battle for irrelevance

For some reason, Stride used his first keynote speech as shadow chancellor to discuss the abject failure of his party

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch ‘will get better’, says Stride as Tories’ polling woes continue

The shadow chancellor insisted the party has the right person in the top job.

Evening Standard

Liz Truss attacks Tories who ‘kowtowed’ ahead of mini-budget apology

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The Independent UK

Tories will never again put economy at risk like Liz Truss did, Mel Stride says

Shadow chancellor accepts Truss’s mini-budget badly damaged party in clearest repudiation yet of ex-PM

The Guardian - UK

Liz Truss lashes out as Tories apologise for her disastrous mini-budget

Shadow chancellor Mel Stride vowed the Tories would ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford as he warned his party ‘needs to shine the light of truth on what Reform is all about’

The Independent UK

‘Bold rewiring’ of economy needed as Tories seek to regain trust, Stride says

In a speech on Thursday, Mel Stride is expected to promise the Conservatives will ‘never again’ make offers they cannot afford.

Evening Standard

Nigel Farage sees route to power in squeezing Labour from the left

NIGEL Farage knows how to craft a moment.

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Evening Standard

Nigel Farage blasted for 'fantasy economics' as Reform claims £225billion savings by axing net zero projects

He is calling for the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap and restoring the winter fuel payment to all pensioners

Evening Standard

Scrapping two-child benefit cap ‘not off the table’, says Education Secretary

The Government’s child poverty strategy, which was due to be published in the spring, is now set to come out in the autumn.

The Guardian - UK

UK politics: No 10 won’t say if fuel payments U-turn will be implemented in time for this winter – as it happened

Downing Street unable to say how many more pensioners would receive winter fuel payments or when changes would come in

The Independent UK

From Gove to Cleverly: Who is on Rishi Sunak’s resignation honours list?

Michael Gove, Simon Hart and Alister Jack have all been handed peerages – but who else made the cut?

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The Guardian - UK

Starmer aiming to ‘pass emergency legislation in one day’ to save British Steel – as it happened

Parliament is being recalled on Saturday to vote on emergency legislation that will bring British Steel under government control

The Independent UK

Employers ‘loaded up’ with business rates, says shadow chancellor

A 75% relief in business rates fell to 40% this month.

The Guardian - UK

A sketch writers’ benefit? An April fool? Either way, big thanks to Mel and Kemi

A press conference at Tory HQ at least had some entertainment value even if there was nothing of importance to say

The Guardian - UK

Everything is great, nothing to see here, Rachel Reeves tells MPs

Chancellor delivers a spring statement strong on wishful thinking and light on compassion for those hit by cuts

Evening Standard

Growth forecast halved this year in blow to Reeves

Chancellor Rachel Reeves said she was taking action to grow the economy but said she was battling global instability.

Evening Standard

Workers’ rights plans could have ‘negative’ impact, watchdog suggests

The Office for Budget Responsibility said regulations which ‘affect the flexibility of businesses and labour markets’ can have undesirable effects.

Evening Standard

Chancellor has ‘reneged’ on her promises to the British people, Stride says

The shadow chancellor described Ms Reeves as a ‘gambler’ who has ‘clobbered’ businesses.

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