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Plaid leader pledges to launch payments for poor children

Rhun ap Iorwerth said child poverty ‘remains a national stain’ with children ‘not even afforded the decency of good health and the bare essentials’.

Evening Standard

Department for Education confirms launch of natural history GCSE

Campaigners have been calling for the qualification for years but plan stalled despite a curriculum being drawn up

The Guardian - UK

Stanley Tucci and Stephen Fry say Starmer must rethink ‘shameful’ benefit cuts

Stanley Tucci and Stephen Fry call on Starmer to rethink ‘shameful’ benefit cuts

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Fact check: ‘Welfare bill’ cost and tracking Labour’s pledges

Round-up of fact checks from the last week compiled by Full Fact.

The Independent UK

‘Nothing off the table’ over possible troop deployment for Kyiv, No 10 says

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer warned Vladimir Putin would face ‘severe consequences’ for breaching any truce.

The Independent UK

Budget 2025: What time is the Spring Statement – and what will be in it?

There have been several big policy announcements in the run-up to the event, most recently welfare changes to achieve £5 billion in spending cuts by 2029/30

The Independent UK

Lords watchdog investigating Labour peer who wrote to Treasury on behalf of crypto firm

Inquiry into Iain McNicol is third to be launched after revelations in the Guardian’s Lords debate investigation

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UK economic growth forecast to be cut in half in blow to Starmer and Reeves

Major downgrade to growth forecast will pile further pressure on the chancellor

The Independent UK

Starmer not moving away from having UK ground forces in Ukraine, says Miliband

‘I think people are over-interpreting what the Prime Minister said yesterday,’ Ed Miliband added.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer praised Adolescence. Now he needs to show he’s learned from it

The government balked at protecting children from the perils of social media. TV has made the issues plain; now politics must do its job, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The Guardian - UK

Stephen Lawrence Killer Drops Bombshell Claim About Night of Murder

One of Stephen Lawrence’s killers is now set to have his parole hearing held in public – and it’s already causing shockwaves.

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What the papers say – March 21

Conflict in Ukraine continues to lead Friday’s front pages.

Evening Standard

Ukraine war briefing: Trump says minerals deal with Kyiv to be signed ‘very shortly’

Zelenskyy says he will not discuss US ownership of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station; US to hold separate meetings with Russian and Ukrainian officials in Saudi Arabia. What we know on day 1,122

The Guardian - AU

Keir Starmer Under Fire as Asylum Hotel Crisis Spirals Out of Control

Sir Keir Starmer’s promise to shut down asylum hotels is already under fire, just as another wave of migrants landed on British shores.

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Government ‘absolutely up for the fight’ over net zero, Ed Miliband says

Exclusive: energy secretary says 2050 target is imperative, and accuses opposition of betraying of future generations

The Independent UK

Stanley Tucci and Stephen Fry call on Starmer to rethink ‘shameful’ benefit cuts

Keir Starmer has insisted the current system is ‘morally and economically indefensible’

The Independent UK

Plaid leader to say he will put Starmer ‘on notice’

Rhun ap Iorwerth, the leader of Plaid Cymru, will speak at the party’s spring conference in Llandudno.

Evening Standard

Celebrities call for rethink of ‘shameful’ Government welfare cuts

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has insisted that the current system is ‘morally and economically indefensible’.

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Evening Standard

UK nuclear deterrent could do ‘untold damage’, Healey warns

John Healey said the UK should not ‘fight shy’ of the fact it has such weapons, which are the ‘ultimate guarantor’ to any hostile state if it attacks.

The Independent UK

Lord Sugar: Starmer should ‘get down on bended knee and beg’ to get back into EU

Lord Alan Sugar has urged Keir Starmer to ‘get down on bended knee and beg’ the EU to let Britain rejoin, in order to save the economy.

The Independent UK

Farage called suspended Reform MP’s behaviour ‘disgusting’ in private texts

Row comes as Techne’s latest weekly tracker poll has shown the Tories level pegging with Reform for the first time in two months amid claims Farage’s party is ‘imploding’

The Independent UK

Sir Keir’s ‘coalition of the willing’ is proving to be principled – and a rallying cry for Ukraine

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Convened by the British prime minister, the meeting of military leaders from more than 20 countries to discuss a peacekeeping force for Ukraine may have jumped the gun. If they are to work together, the UK and EU must first negotiate some key differences

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Ukraine, Russia to hold talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia next week

Kyiv and Moscow confirm attendance at separate talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia set for Monday.

Evening Standard

Putin will face ‘severe consequences’ for breaching any peace deal, Starmer warns

The Prime Minister said he was ‘certain’ the Russian president would flout the terms of a truce unless security arrangements were put in place

The Independent UK

Putin will face ‘severe consequences’ for breaching any peace deal, Starmer says

The Prime Minister said he was ‘certain’ the Russian president would flout the terms of a truce unless security arrangements were in place.

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