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Keir Starmer appoints former Tony Blair aide as new No 10 political director

Keir Starmer has appointed a former aide to Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as his new political director ...

The National (Scotland)

Starmer appoints Blair and Brown aide as new No 10 political director

Claire Reynolds will be in charge of liaising with MPs across the Parliamentary Labour Party.

The Independent UK

Starmer appoints former Blair and Brown aide as new No 10 political director

Claire Reynolds will be in charge of liaising with MPs across the Parliamentary Labour Party

Evening Standard

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Keir Starmer appoints former Blair and Brown aide as his political director

Claire Reynolds, the director of Labour Women’s Network, will take on task of liaison between No 10, party and MPs

The Guardian - UK

Cutting off Unrwa would deeply harm Israel’s reputation, says UK minister

Hamish Falconer says legislation under consideration by Knesset is ‘neither in Israel’s interest nor realistic’

The Guardian - UK

Calls for reparations for Britain's slave trade are rooted in dark legacy

A debate about reparations for Britain’s role in the slave trade overshadowed a summit in Samoa of the Commonwealth, many of whose member nations were once British colonies

The Independent UK

Sir Tony Blair and Dylan Jones: leadership, negotiation & executive action in government ...The Standard podcast

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Tony Blair: Why there has to be compromise to end the Ukraine war

Sir Tony Blair discusses peace-making, Brexit and Keir Starmer’s premiership in wide-ranging London Standard interview

Evening Standard

Rachel Reeves to turn on spending taps with Budget boost for infrastructure and clean energy

The chancellor is planning to change the government’s fiscal rules to free up billions of pounds of borrowing, which she will promise to spend laying ‘the foundations of future growth’

The Independent UK

OPINION - Keir Starmer has just wrecked the UK's relationship with Donald Trump

I am starting to wonder if Keir Starmer is naïve or foolish, or both. Presenting himself as a seasoned technocrat, he has shown himself to be embarrassingly callow in the political arts: first, by announcing in isolation, significant cuts to the winter fuel allowance; second, by so woefully handling the…

Evening Standard

Reeves ‘WhatsApps’ Hunt and is in contact ‘regularly’ with Blair and Brown

The Chancellor added that she would love to be able to call up the late Alistair Darling – the last Labour chancellor to deliver a Budget.

Evening Standard

Boris Johnson’s memoir flops as sales slump despite ‘£2m advance’

Booksellers reportedly left with ‘piles and piles’ of the political memoir, ‘Unleashed’

The Independent UK

Bring in pay-per-mile road pricing across UK, urges Tony Blair’s thinktank

Rachel Reeves urged to shelve fuel duty plans and overhaul taxes amid expected switch to electric vehicles

The Guardian - UK

A moment that changed me: I first heard Oasis at 14 – and they gave me the swagger to come out

Definitely Maybe spoke to me as a working-class Glasgow teenager and gave me hope. Be Here Now brought it all crashing down

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The Independent UK

The NHS desperately needs a shot in the arm – the government’s 10 year plan cannot afford to fail

As the 2024 Budget dawns the government have put out a slew of NHS announcements – but is any of it radical enough to make change?

The Guardian - UK

Lord Leitch obituary

Businessman and Labour politician who chaired the National Employment Panel and produced his key report in 2006

The Guardian - UK

The big idea: is nostalgia killing politics?

From the Tories’ Thatcher fixation to Labour’s Blair fetish, ideas from the past are poisoning the political present

The Guardian - UK

UK will not apologise for role in slavery at Commonwealth summit, No 10 says

News that no symbolic apology or reparations are planned could put Starmer on collision course with other nations

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Evening Standard

Dame Joan Collins on Brexit, divorce and being 'a really good diva'

As she launches a new stage show at the Adelphi Theatre, Nick Curtis meets the Dynasty diva to hear what she really thinks about everything from the US election, to taxes, to desire

The Guardian - UK

Who are the key New Labour figures in Keir Starmer’s government?

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

The Guardian - UK

Starmer calls it slashing ‘red tape’. In fact, he’s just capitulating to big business

Labour is promoting the idea of a trade-off between regulation and growth. We know where that ends, says Balanced Economy Project’s Nicholas Shaxson

Evening Standard

OPINION - The hereditary peers are an antiquated anachronism in the Lords, so let them stay

The hereditary peers aren’t beholden to political patronage; they’re a unique part of the constitution.

The Conversation

Thatcher, Blair and a brief history of class in British politics – podcast

When Tony Blair came to power in 1997 as the first Labour prime minister in a generation, his government became associated with the phrase “we’re all middle class now”.

The National (Scotland)

'Political giant who created modern SNP': Martin Hannan's obituary of Alex Salmond

THE death of former first minister Alex Salmond at the age of 69 in North Macedonia on Saturday has robbed Scotland of a true political giant ...

International Business Times

Blair And King Charles Hail Salmond's 'Devotion' To Scotland

Former UK prime minister Tony Blair on Sunday joined King Charles III among a host of British personalities to pay tribute to former Scotland figurehead Alex Salmond after his sudden death at the age of 69.

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