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For the first time in history, not one of our four leading ministers of state is a white man. Jason Okundaye looks at how this happened and whether it’s just political gameplay

Evening Standard

Douglas Ross set to hire 'ex-New Labour staffer' amid exodus of aides from top team

The Scottish Tories' chief of staff, director of communications and also their head of digital are all leaving Ross's team

The National (Scotland)

What would Princess Diana’s life have been like if she had lived?

Embroiled in culture wars or living the high life in exile abroad, Sean O’Grady explores what Princess Diana’s life might have been like, had the Princess of Wales not died 25 years ago

The Independent UK

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Liz Truss is a Gen-Xer like me. We shouldn’t be the ones in power right now

The relative global stability that I grew up with is long gone, yet one of my peers is carrying on like nothing has changed, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s tepid policies are alienating Labour’s core supporters

Letters: Labour may be sowing the seeds of its own destruction, writes Dr Peter Mangan, while Jacqueline Mackenzie says she has become politically homeless. Plus letters from John Bourn and Ted Shrecker

The Guardian - UK

SNP beat New Labour for 'sleaze and spin' claims Sarwar as Holyrood reform plans unveiled

ANAS Sarwar has claimed the SNP have taken spin and secrecy “to a whole other level” as he unveiled Scottish Labour’s plans to reform Holyrood.

The National (Scotland)

Labour should be winning – but this Tory leadership circus is drowning Starmer out

Compared with the novelty of a new Conservative premier, the no-frills Labour leader is failing to show he is a fresher option, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

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UN law meant UK was ‘attractive for asylum seekers’, New Labour told

Attempts to tackle immigration partly thwarted by protocol

Wales Online

UN law meant UK was ‘attractive destination for asylum seekers’, New Labour told

Internal memos from the first years of Tony Blair’s premiership show how keen the government was to tackle immigration.

The Independent UK

It’s taken a leadership race for the Tories to fess up: they’ve wrecked the economy

Don’t take my word for it that they are the low-growth party? Just ask Liz Truss and Tom Tugendhat, says the Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

‘The country is in a dangerous place – people are frightened’: Andy Burnham on power, progress and finding his place

Five years into his job, the mayor of Greater Manchester is calling for a radical reinvention of the political system. He talks about his big ideas, confronting self-doubt – and the chances of him running for the Labour leadership

The Guardian - UK

Jon Cruddas: ‘Labour party must support’ rail workers in pay dispute

MP says Keir Starmer’s team should not distance themselves from unions but back industrial action to defend living standards

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Britannicus; Tony! (The Tony Blair Rock Opera); The Haunting of Susan A

Even Timberlake Wertenbaker can’t quite ignite Racine’s tyrannical hero; Harry Hill’s New Labour musical is a gag-filled joy; and the spirits move for Mark Ravenhill

The Guardian - UK

Yes, we’re in a bad way. But to wallow in myths of British ‘declinism’ won’t help us thrive

As we try to find our place in the world, politics veers between the equally unreal claims of boosters and decliners. The latter are now in the ascendant

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] review: Slapdash New Labour musical feels like a student drama group spoof

There’s not much satirical sophistication on show in this oddly-timed musical effort from Harry Hill and Steve Brown

The Guardian - UK

‘Our ears were bleeding!’ – Harry Hill on making his Tony Blair rock opera

Saddam gets a Groucho Marx makeover, Gordon Brown sings about macroeconomics – and Cherie is part Lily Savage, part Lili Marleen. The big-collared comic reveals all about Tony!

The National (Scotland)

New dawn after the night before: New Labour grandees in Wetherspoons bash

NEW Labour grandees celebrated the 25th anniversary of the party’s historic 1997 landslide in style on Sunday – in a Wetherspoons.

The Guardian - UK

The lessons that Keir Starmer can learn from New Labour’s famous landslide victory

Labour needs a project for power led with verve from the top and executed relentlessly at every level

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Daily Mirror

'Things got better for millions after Labour's 1997 victory - and we threw it away'

Tony Blair, writing for the Mirror 25 years after he entered Downing Street, takes on the left and right who 'trash' his record - and says the party is on the road to governing again

The Guardian - UK

There has been a huge drop in NHS satisfaction levels – but don’t let No 10 blame Covid

It was clear before the pandemic that resources were threadbare. What’s worrying is that there’s still no plan to fix it, says health policy journalist Andy Cowper

The Guardian - UK

Our Friends in the North still depressingly relevant, says writer

Themes of corruption and attitudes to poverty still resonate today, says Peter Flannery ahead of new Radio 4 adaptation

Daily Mirror

'BBC drama tells grim story of NHS under New Labour - what a horror show it would be now'

Rachael Bletchly says This Is Going To Hurt paints a grim picture of the National Health Service under New Labour and can't imagine what a horror show it would be under the latest Tory cuts

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