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Six of the best political shows you need to see at this year's Fringe

THE Edinburgh Festival Fringe has officially launched, with more than 3500 shows planned across the month.

The National (Scotland)

Sue Gray snubs No 10 photographers after pyjama smear

‘It is the first case of anyone complaining from No 10 that I’ve heard of,’ said a snapper

Evening Standard

Fringe benefits: 10 of the best shows to catch at this year’s Edinburgh festival

From ruminations on life, love and being Keir Starmer to dance-theatre unpacking toxic masculinity, here’s our pick of 2024’s ‘Burgh necessities

The Guardian - UK

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Cabinet secretary contenders: who’s in line for top job in UK civil service?

Whitehall sources say it could be a more open competition than in past as Simon Case prepares to step down

The Guardian - UK

Labour to fight 2029 election ‘like an insurgent’ as preparations begin

Party’s strategist already planning how to secure second term, bolstered by former MP’s appointment to thinktank

The Guardian - UK

Who are the key people inside Labour’s leadership team?

The chiefs of staff, special advisers and policy strategists guiding Keir Starmer’s new government

The Guardian - UK

Stunned silence, hugs and a very big kiss: at home with the Starmers on election night

The PM’s biographer spent the evening of 4 July with the Labour leader and his family. Here he describes the occasion – and examines the battles ahead for Starmer

The Guardian - UK

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Thames, Tata, Shein – it won’t be business as usual for Labour’s Jonathan Reynolds

The new business secretary will have big calls to make within a few days of sitting down at his desk

The Guardian - UK

How Labour did it: inside the campaign that led to ‘Starmergeddon’

Each decision made in ‘the cell’ was framed by three key messages and pushed along by a well disciplined operation

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Morgan McSweeney: the Labour power list as Sue Gray resigns

As Sue Gray exits, read our ultimate guide to the most influential figures in the Labour government

Evening Standard

What are Keir Starmer’s biggest issues as he enters Downing Street?

The incoming prime minister’s in-tray will be more daunting than usual because of a rotten economic inheritance, writes Andrew Grice

The Independent UK

‘No-drama Starmer’: How Labour would govern

‘It’s not politics as spectacle. It’s politics designed to get better outcomes,’ says one insider, as Starmer looks to cut NHS waiting lists and improve security

The Guardian - UK

There’s nothing undemocratic about a large Labour majority – in fact, managed properly, it could provide the space for serious debate

In the final stage of the 2024 election campaign, the Conservatives have turned to scaremongering about the size of the Labour majority thought to be on the cards after July 4.

The Conversation

Labour to add dozens of peers to back its policies and improve gender balance

Exclusive: Party has pledged to abolish House of Lords but plans initial appointments to bolster its benches

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The Guardian - UK

Surprise election forces comedians to tear up Edinburgh festival scripts

For this year’s fringe, performers will be rapidly updating their shows to reflect the outcome at the ballot box

The Guardian - UK

Friday briefing: Prisons are literally falling apart – and there’s no plan to save them

In today’s newsletter: A new report has laid bare the state of England and Wales’s overcrowded, squalid prisons. Real solutions seem a distant hope.

Evening Standard

General Election 2024 London seats: Who is my MP in Beckenham and Penge?

Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

The Independent UK

Labour consider biggest Whitehall shake-up in decades as Keir Starmer strives to deliver key manifesto pledges

Plans to help party drive its policies through the civil service overseen by Sue Gray, who wrote Partygate report into Boris Johnson

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The Guardian - UK

Farming is risky and vital – it needs to be on the next UK government’s priority list

Brexit border checks are just the latest hurdle placed before British farmers. Labour must do more to back our food producers

The Guardian - UK

Labour was fighting fit for an election, but some fear a nasty shock once in power

A party drilled to say ‘if’, not ‘when’ will suddenly have to change gears – and reconcile two vastly different modes of Starmerism, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Evening Standard

London Tory MP candidate forced to withdraw campaign leaflets after police complaint

Hannah Gray, who is standing in Beckenham and Penge in south-east London, has stopped flyers being sent out

The Guardian - UK

Why Labour staffers and MPs don’t say no to ‘power behind the throne’ Sue Gray

Starmer’s chief of staff came with a reputation as an inquisitor and is not one to work in the shadows

The Independent UK

Patrick Vallance becomes the latest public servant who worked with the Tory government to back Labour

Britain’s former chief scientific officer Sir Patrick Vallance backed Labour’s Great British Energy plan today

The Guardian - UK

Both feted and gilded, Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak are two sides of the same rotten politics

After three days of the election campaign, it’s clear the PM will change – our rotten political system won’t, writes Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Meet the top teams: the key election advisers to Sunak and Starmer

We look at the people who will strategise for the prime minister and opposition leader in the coming weeks

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