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The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Labour’s desire to demonstrate economic competence may come at a cost

Keir Starmer’s U-turn on pledge to abolish university tuition fees is poorly timed just before local elections

The Guardian - UK

Labour to begin consulting on new ways to fund university education

But senior party figures believe Starmer’s repeated U-turns on leadership campaign pledges are creating a damaging policy vacuum

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak sends MPs away with a flurry of fibs at PMQs

MPs vanish as Rish! turns PMQs into excruciating session of prime minister’s evasions

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Sue Gray will take up Labour role no matter how long the delay, says party

Labour leader’s spokesperson says Gray will become chief of staff even if watchdog recommends long delay to start date

The Guardian - UK

Tory chairman repeats 1,000 council seat losses claim and denies he will quit

Greg Hands said independent experts had made the prediction.

The Independent UK

Stephen Flynn brings Angela Rayner's words back to haunt her after Labour fees U-turn

LABOUR’S deputy leader has been called out by SNP MP Stephen Flynn after Keir Starmer indicated he would lead his party in a U-turn on their…

The National (Scotland)

Starmer says 1.7m people face higher mortgages as Tories used money like ‘casino chips’

‘Nearly a million people, paying more on their mortgage each month because his party used their money as a casino chip,’ Sir Keir told Rishi Sunak at PMQs

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Shades of Gray: what does appointment say about Starmer?

The row over senior civil servant and Partygate investigator Sue Gray’s appointment as chief of staff for the Labour Party has further intensified, with allies insisting that she is facing “a political witch hunt” over an inquiry into her departure from Whitehall.

The Week

Keir Starmer will no longer scrap tuition fees. Just what does his Labour party stand for?

No leader of a major party has so comprehensively junked their leadership platform in British democratic history, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Mapped: Dozens of ‘blue wall’ councils being targeted by tactical voters

Exclusive: Research shows there are 39 Tory-held councils in the South where the left-leaning vote outstrips the vote for right-wing parties

The Independent UK

Starmer accuses Rishi Sunak of ‘killing the dream of home ownership’

Labour leader castigates PM for dropping compulsory housebuilding targets for councils

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak: King’s coronation will be a moment of extraordinary national pride

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said the world will see ‘our country at its best’ on May 6.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s former aide Cleo Watson hopes new political novel doesn’t lose her friends

The book has characters inspired by real Downing Street colleagues

Evening Standard

Starmer criticises Tory record on mortgages and housing ahead of local elections

The Labour leader said Conservative councillors ‘simply don’t want to build the houses local people need’.

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Daily Mirror

Keir Starmer skewers Rishi Sunak over pool heating bills as 2 MILLION face mortgage misery

Floundering Rishi Sunak came under fire over the impact of Kwasi Kwarteng's disastrous economic meddling last year, with 850,000 paying higher mortgage rates and a further 930,000 facing the same fate by the end of the year

The Independent UK

Watch: Rishi Sunak faces Keir Starmer at PMQs on final day of local election campaigning

Rishi Sunak faced Sir Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, 3 May, as their parties wrapped up local election campaigning.

The National (Scotland)

Anas Sarwar at odds with Keir Starmer over free university tuition policy

ANAS Sarwar is at odds with Keir Starmer after Scottish Labour said they remained committed to free university education ...

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer should ask Sue Gray to co-operate with probe, says minister

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves accused the Government of pursuing a ‘vendetta’ against the former senior civil servant.

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The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak accused of pursuing ‘vendetta’ against former top civil servant Sue Gray

The prime minister is ‘doubling down’ on Boris Johnson’s ‘vendetta’ against Ms Gray over her Partygate investigation, Labour’s Rachel Reeves said

Evening Standard

Labour on defensive as party hits out at Sue Gray ‘vendetta’

Ministers are pursuing a “vendetta” against partygate investigator Sue Gray, Labour has claimed, as the row intensified over her appointment as Sir Keir Starmer’s next chief of staff.

The Guardian - UK

Sue Gray will become Starmer’s chief of staff no matter how long the delay, says Labour – as it happened

Latest updates: Labour also accused the Tories of trying to ‘politicise’ the process

Evening Standard

London politics LIVE: Keir Starmer accuses Tories of ‘economic vandalism’ at final PMQs before local elections

Labour leader Keir Starmer has accused the Government of “economic vandalism” in a fiery PMQs showdown before Thursday’s local elections.

The Independent UK

Labour principles have not changed, says Reeves after tuition fees U-turn

Labour’s promise to ditch tuition fees is the latest pledge dropped by the party.

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: Why did a heavily trailed update on Gray’s new job never materialise?

In today’s newsletter: The author of the investigation into government parties during lockdown has herself become the subject of an inquiry – but why was it held back?

The Independent UK

Probe into Sue Gray’s Labour role paused after her refusal to co-operate

Allies defended Ms Gray for prioritising a separate review by the anti-corruption watchdog.

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