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Exclusive: With a failure to deliver economic growth leaving an estimated £18bn in Rachel Reeves’s budget, the use of senior diplomats to bolster engagement with business is just the latest part of a strategy to turn things around

Exclusive: Jim O’Neill warns that the chancellor will have to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT to fill the £5bn black hole left by the welfare climbdown

NEWS ANALYSIS: Voters are unconvinced they have seen much change after the ‘14 years of Tory failure’ that Starmer so often talks about. Every day that this sentiment is allowed to fester, the likelihood of a coup within the Labour Party increases, writes Millie Cooke

Ukraine said Saturday it struck a Russian airbase in the Voronezh region

At the general election exactly a year ago, London voted heavily for a change of government, affirming a trend underway for more than a decade in which the capital has steadily become a more ‘Labour city’.

Original welfare proposals had been part of a package expected to save up to £5 billion a year

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Despite a tumultuous and, at times, disappointing first year in office, Keir Starmer remains the best person for the job, streets ahead of any alternative leader who might theoretically replace him. But now he needs to rewire his relationship with the British people

Three trade deals, five U-turns, 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence, eight ministerial resignations, 49 welfare rebels, record small boat crossings – the statistics behind Keir Starmer’s first year as prime minister explored by Alicja Hagopian and David Maddox

NEWS ANALYSIS: As Sir Keir Starmer marks a year since his huge general election victory, he still has a lot to prove if he wants to continue being prime minister, writes David Maddox