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Labour grandees welcome paedo-linked ally to drinks bash

SENIOR Labour figures welcomed an ally suspended from the party over his links to a sex offender to a drinks event last week ...

The National (Scotland)

UK’s fragile heirloom: ceramics sector calls for more help to save ‘vital industry’

Brands such as Portmeirion in Stoke welcome £120m package but seek further support to avert fresh closures

The Guardian - UK

The US’s role in the rise of communist regimes

Brief letters: American foreign policy | Donald Trump’s self-reflection | Tony Blair’s Toryism | Keir Starmer on Whatsapp | Nine times table

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Zombie Blairites still have British politics in their grip – it’s time to break free

Tony Blair’s departure as PM should have prompted a fresh start for Labour. But Starmer’s sad, backward-looking government remains in his thrall, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Britain is in a doom loop: people mistrust democracy and politicians. I say a hope loop is possible too

There are ways to address the lack of faith. And unless Starmer, Burnham or Streeting do that, the issue of who is PM is moot, says Polly Curtis of Demos

The Guardian - UK

Cooper accuses Tories of China ‘withdrawal’ and rejects Blair criticism

The Foreign Secretary accused opponents of ‘cancel culture’ foreign policy as she defended the Labour Government’s warming relations with Beijing.

Evening Standard

What Blair gets wrong about the economy – it is fired by people, not business

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Freedland’s article about Tony Blair’s vision for the future

The Guardian - UK

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$British politics is fractured and chaotic – but at last it’s brimming with ideas for the future$

British politics is fractured and chaotic – but at last it’s brimming with ideas for the future

Finally, Labour is talking policy, thanks to the leadership contest and Tony Blair’s intervention – and the centre-right is making a much-needed fightback too, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

UK’s growing green economy worth more than £100bn a year, research finds

Net zero industry accounts for more than a million jobs and benefits whole country, according to CBI Economics

The Guardian - UK

Mandelson files reveal Labour party is riddled with doubts and infighting

Documents were published to reveal what ministers knew about his links to Epstein, but instead exposed government rifts

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair has taken aim at Keir Starmer – but some of his criticisms apply to New Labour too

It is rare for former prime ministers to engage in debates about public policy nearly 20 years after they left office. Other than the most general observations, they tend to avoid interventions. So, when Tony Blair offered 5,700 words of criticism directed at the party he led for 13 years,…

The Conversation

Richard Murphy: Are there too many unemployed young people? If so, it's on Labour

WHY are unemployment and alienation from the workplace such persistent problems among young people that they have consistently existed under…

The National (Scotland)

Newcastle's port is no political playground, it's a working harbour

Letters: 'How long before the Port of Newcastle loses its social licence to export coal?'

Newcastle Herald

A generation of young people has been let down by a lack of political will

Letters: Readers respond to the release of Alan Milburn’s report into the rise of young people not in education, employment or training

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The Independent UK

Streeting outlines key policies ahead of potential Labour leadership contest

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The Independent UK

Streeting attacks both Starmer and Blair – and lays out key policies

The former health secretary said Labour should consider cutting national insurance and issuing new oil drilling licences for the North Sea

Evening Standard

Streeting backs North Sea licences and national insurance cut

He reiterated his support for the UK’s eventual return to the EU.

The Guardian - UK

Tony Blair says he is all about the future – but his vision is woefully stuck in the past

He insists he is so right but gets so much badly wrong, not least the absurdity that the UK should have joined Donald Trump in the quagmire that is Iran, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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The Guardian - UK

The less we hear from Tony Blair, the better

Letters: Readers respond to coverage of an essay by the former Labour prime minister attacking the party’s current leadership and policies

The National (Scotland)

Tony Blair is back and he's seriously serious about getting serious

We have a guest column from the politician everyone’s been talking about for the last 30 years: Tony Blair.

The Guardian - UK

Digested week: Is it pedantic to point out Trump is ‘ending’ a war he started?

Plus, Nicola Sturgeon’s marital relations, the hell of burnout, Tony Blair’s saviour complex and Spurs

The Independent UK

Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson announces cancer has returned

The Labour peer was initially diagnosed with non-aggressive prostate cancer in March 2023

The Independent UK

Meta Ramsay: The British intelligence pioneer who could have been MI6’s first female ‘C’

Labour peer was a senior agent during the height of the Cold War

The Independent UK

Andy Burnham addresses ‘gaping omission’ in Tony Blair’s 5,600-word essay

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The Independent UK

Tributes pour in for MI6 ‘trailblazer’ Baroness Meta Ramsay

Her tenure included participation in the 1985 extraction of KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky from the Soviet Union

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