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Who is Torsten Bell? The new pensions minister pegged as Britain's future chancellor

From being one half of Britain’s most influential political twin duo, to his role in the infamous ‘EdStone’, Emma Loffhagen reports on Torsten Bell, the former think tank director promoted to pensions minister

Evening Standard

Tories accused of showing ‘collective amnesia’ over record in government

Commons leader Lucy Powell says she hoped the Tories might own up to economic results over last 14 years, including ‘low growth and low wages’.

Evening Standard

Orwell’s coin, brightest stars and lynx on the loose – take the Thursday quiz

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

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Tulip Siddiq resigns: there’s no evidence she broke any rules, but here’s why she had to go anyway

Tulip Siddiq has resigned as anti-corruption minister after getting embroiled in a corruption scandal. A number of questions had been raised about her following an investigation by Bangladesh’s Anti-Corruption Commission into the country’s former prime minister Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed last year and just happens to be Siddiq’s aunt.

The Conversation

Miliband confirms no plans for 2035 ban on gas boilers in homes

Energy Secretary Ed Miliband said he was ‘wary’ of a ban without being able to guarantee that greener alternatives would be cheaper by the deadline.

Evening Standard

No 10 says Starmer does expect Reeves to stay as chancellor until general election – UK politics live

Downing Street says prime minster has ‘full confidence’ in chancellor and will be working with her ‘in role of chancellor’ for the whole of this parliament

The Guardian - UK

Former minister ‘asked army chief to resign over national security incident’

General Sir Gwyn Jenkins is considered a frontrunner for the post of next chief of defence staff

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Liz Truss sends legal letter ordering Starmer to stop saying she crashed economy

‘Cease and desist’ letter accuses PM of harming her reputation and contributing to her losing her seat

The Guardian - UK

Civil service morale worsened despite improving pay levels, survey finds

Whitehall Monitor report also said churn increased as three new departments created under Rishi Sunak

The Guardian - UK

Badenoch refuses to restore whip to Warsi despite clearing her of wrongdoing over Sunak ‘coconut’ tweet

Exclusive: Tory leader refuses to reinstate UK’s first Muslim cabinet member less than 24 hours after backing Robert Jenrick for railing against ‘alien cultures with medieval attitudes’

The Independent UK

How low will British politics go? Ask Elon, master of the Muskoverse – he’ll decide

The unedifying spectacle of would-be strongmen bickering over how to protect women and girls is just the beginning, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

NHS dentistry is at ‘death’s door’, Streeting tells MPs

Health Secretary Wes Streeting said 700,000 extra urgent dental appointments would be delivered ‘as fast as we can’.

Evening Standard

Tory ministers opened £1,500 bottle of cognac in the dying days of the Sunak government

Also drunk was a bottle of port that a report on the government wine cellar said should be for ‘very special occasions only’

The Independent UK

OPINION - Why Kemi Badenoch's showboating on grooming gangs rings hollow

What unites the right like nothing else? Grooming gangs. And the Conservatives have kicked off 2025 by placing it front and centre. “The time is long overdue for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal…No one in authority has joined the dots. 2025 must be the year that…

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At best, 2025 will be a year of slow economic recovery. As for the worst? Brace yourselves

With threats of recession, global fracturing and increasingly angry voters, Labour’s sticky start is unlikely to get any easier, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

Evening Standard

In Pictures: Rain-soaked Rishi and wide-eyed Wes in year’s best political images

The PA news agency’s photographers provided unrivalled coverage of the world of politics this year as these first rate images show.

Evening Standard

Migrants reaching UK after crossing Channel in small boats up 25% in 2024

The last crossings of the year took place on December 29, when 291 people made the journey from France in six boats

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Social media moments that defined 2024: From lookalike contests to Moo Deng

Our Senior Social Features Editor looks back on the most viral happenings of the year

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The National (Scotland)

Review of the year: What happened in Scottish politics in 2024?

AT the start of 2024, Humza Yousaf was the first minister, the SNP and Greens were partners in the Scottish Government, the SNP had 48 MPs at…

The Independent UK

Now is the perfect time to discover India’s most underrated city

The region is where Rishi Sunak married local girl Akshata Murty

The Guardian - UK

The alternative 2024 sports awards: quotes, gaffes and animal cameos

The best and worst of 2024 – featuring Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the war on woke and the happiest 34 seconds of the year

Evening Standard

In Pictures: Sunak, Starmer and stunts during the 2024 general election campaign

Party leaders travelled the length and breadth of the UK as they tried to win votes at the general election.

The Independent UK

In Pictures: Wales marks 25 years of Senedd and elects two first ministers

Visits by several members of the royal family and some television stars brought the crowds out across the country.

The Independent UK

2024 brings new leaders at Westminster, Holyrood, the Senedd and Stormont

Labour’s general election landslide swept Sir Keir Starmer into No 10 and there were leadership changes across the UK.

Evening Standard

Timeline of the Channel migrant crisis

More than 150,000 migrants have crossed the Channel in the last seven years, according to analysis by the PA news agency.

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