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The Latest Breaking News from Tony Blair

Conservative cabinet ministers, look away now: your ‘Portillo moment’ could be on the cards

Two mega-polls suggest that the Tories are heading for a defeat more catastrophic than they experienced in 1997. What if they’re right?

The Guardian - UK

Former Standard political editor Charles Reiss dies aged 82

During an extraordinary career he revealed the inside track of the Thatcher era and the unfolding of the Iraq War

Evening Standard

Winning over the Times and the Sun won’t decide the next election – but Starmer’s Labour can’t kick the habit

Despite the polls, the leader wants them on side for an endorsement. Yet why bother if it would make little difference to voter numbers?, asks First Edition editor Archie Bland

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‘We’re forgotten about here’: the broken promises of levelling up

Five years after the Tories won over the ‘red wall’ with a pledge to restore deprived areas, voters in the north-east say they’ve given up waiting for change

The Guardian - UK

A Labour government will have five years to fix the NHS or face the unthinkable

Public satisfaction with the health service is at an all-time low, so now might be time to reconsider what we expect from it

The Guardian - UK

Sam Bankman-Fried will grow old in jail. But don’t forget those who basked in his orbit

If the high-rollers surrounding the disgraced FTX founder had any qualms about taking his money, they didn’t show it, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Minimum wage is UK’s ‘most successful economic policy in a generation’

Resolution Foundation study suggests lowest earners are £6,000 a year better off due to policy

The Guardian - UK

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UK Labour Party Turns To Thatcher In Courtship Of Right

Margaret Thatcher remains despised by many on the left of British politics, but the main Labour opposition seems comfortable citing her as it woos the right before this year's election.

International Business Times

John Healey: frontbench veteran uniquely equipped to ready Labour for office

Shadow defence secretary’s experience in Blair-Brown governments and Miliband, Corbyn and Starmer shadow cabinets is a boon to a party where few have governed before

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s economic plans: a response too small for the challenge the UK faces

Editorial: A radical agenda is needed to deal with the crises of economic stagnation, political polarisation and the climate emergency. Rachel Reeves did not offer one

The Guardian - UK

Labour landslide will be much harder to achieve than in 1997, analysis shows

Starmer’s shadow cabinet is less popular than Blair’s, and Britons and have lost confidence in politicians and in their own prospects

The Guardian - UK

Lord McAvoy obituary

Trade unionist and stalwart Scottish Labour politician who served as a whip in the Commons and Lords

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s team coached for government over dinners with top Whitehall figures

Shadow ministers step up preparations by holding informal meals to pick the brains of senior political figures

The Guardian - UK

I’ve never heard a Labour leader speak about the arts like Keir Starmer – now I hope words become action

He has signalled a return to old Labour values: that everyone, no matter their background, should have access to temples of high culture, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer, Charlotte Higgins

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Evening Standard

Lady Rose Hanbury: Kate Princess of Wales' party-loving close friend with a Saltburn-style upbringing

While the Marchioness of Cholmondeley is one of Kate Middleton’s best-known associates, they couldn’t be less similar. Maddy Mussen reports on the flamboyant life of her party-loving lookalike

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s record on appointing female peers from party worst since Major, analysis finds

Unlock Democracy report notes that path to gender equality in Lords has slowed in recent years

The Guardian - UK

Congratulations, Rupert Murdoch! Let’s hope this love match lasts longer than TalkTV

This is the media mogul’s second proposal in 12 months. We mortals can only speculate about his mesmerising dating secrets, says the Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

The Guardian - UK

MoD paid millions into Saudi account amid BAE corruption scandal

Documents show officials stressing need to ‘keep the Saudis on side’ after revelations about notorious al-Yamamah deal

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The Gentlemen episode 3 recap: Where's My Weed At?

In The Gentlemen episode 3 Eddie gets mixed up with a Colombian gangster

The Guardian - US

The Achilles Trap: Steve Coll on how the US fatally failed to read Saddam

The reporter’s new book considers the dark comedy of errors – and a dictator’s literary ambition – that led America to war

Evening Standard

Who is George Galloway? Rochdale MP clashes on Good Morning Britain appearance

In many tetchy exchanges Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley struggled to get a straight answer out of the Left-winger, long a supporter of the Palestinians

The Guardian - UK

Most Britons say poor people deserve support. So what do Sunak’s Tories do? Cut, cut, cut

Slashing benefits will push even more people into poverty. Neither Labour nor Conservative voters want it, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin review — the most important political book of the year

The sheer velocity with which Keir Starmer has led the Labour Party from the brink of extinction to the brink of power is unprecedented in the modern era. And – just in time – this excellent biography arrives in what is all but certain to be an election year.

Evening Standard

OPINION - If the Tories didn't like last night, they may not enjoy the upcoming local elections

This isn't going to be one of those newsletters that opens with a Tony Blair reference, a convoluted 1990s pop culture storyline or a self-deprecating yet witty personal anecdote. We can leave those at home. Instead, allow me to regurgitate three things the godfather of psephology, Sir John Curtice, said…

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer is the king of the monster swings, beating Blair and Thatcher

The Wellingborough byelection was the Labour leader’s fourth mammoth turnaround, as the Tories suffered a record fall

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