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Starmer takes it step by step in the phoney war that is a general election campaign

With no date in sight, the waiting game drags on. So Labour spells out the message again, and again

The Guardian - UK

Greens say Sian Berry 'generous and noble' to quit City Hall job straight after re-election

Labour’s shadow health secretary Wes Streeting had called Berry’s move ‘very poor’

Evening Standard

Conservative defector to Labour ‘was bitter at not getting ministerial job’

Tory sources allege that Dover MP Natalie Elphicke crossed the floor because she was not given a post running housing policy

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Labour should be ‘less tribal’, says Keir Starmer after Elphicke defection

Party leader welcomes MP in Dover speech as he announces plan to replace Rwanda scheme with new border security unit

The Guardian - UK

‘They’re everywhere’: Labour’s wooing of City goes into overdrive

Starmer and Reeves have created 2020s version of party’s 1990s ‘prawn cocktail offensive’ – and business appears hungry for it

The Guardian - UK

‘Unethical’ junk food packaging manipulates children into craving sweets, report claims

Bite Back, a Jamie Oliver campaign group, found the 10 biggest producers reel in young shoppers with attention-grabbing colours and cartoons

The Guardian - UK

MP’s defection reflects ‘disillusionment’ of Tory voters, says Wes Streeting

Shadow health secretary said Dan Poulter’s defection showed he believed ‘only Labour can be trusted with the NHS’

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Can Wes Streeting’s private sector plans save the NHS?

Letters: Readers weigh up Labour’s plans to use the private health sector to reduce the NHS backlog

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting defends Labour plan to use private sector to cut NHS backlog

Exclusive: Failure to do so would betray working-class people, shadow health secretary says

The Guardian - UK

Cass review must be used as ‘watershed moment’ for NHS gender services, says Streeting

Shadow health secretary calls for more thoughtful approach but says he understand scepticism among trans people

The Guardian - UK

Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own

Now Labour is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like a political coup, or the ultimate act of selling out, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

‘Middle-class lefties’ won’t stop Labour using private sector to cut NHS backlog, Streeting says

Shadow health secretary says quicker treatment to stop working class families being left behind is more important than ideology

The Guardian - UK

When the right to die becomes the duty to die, who will step in to save those most at risk?

Proponents of legalising assisted dying are right to stop and think of the possible unintended consequences

The Guardian - UK

Boris and Carrie Johnson have a second-hand holiday on the slopes

Carrie Johnson proudly boasted online that she found ski gear steals for the children on Vinted

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Wes Streeting mocks Just Stop Oil activist who broke police bail to deliver him letter - but went to wrong house

The politician poked fun at the environmental campaigners

Evening Standard

Tories slam party's response to donor who reportedly said Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women'

Frank Hester has admitted making ‘rude’ comments about the politician but said they had ‘nothing to do with her gender nor colour of skin’

The Guardian - UK

NHS funding faces biggest real-terms cuts since 1970s, warns IFS

Health spending in England to suffer 1.2% cut, worth £2bn, despite extra costs, thinktank’s analysis finds

The Guardian - UK

NHS tops poll of voters’ concerns as latest strike threatens further havoc

Junior doctors’ 11th walkout in England expected to add to backlogs in service a third of Britons say NHS is most pressing issue

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Evening Standard

Lee Anderson's 'divisive and dangerous' rant against Sadiq Khan condemned by Tory and Labour MPs

Tory chiefs are under pressure to take action against Mr Anderson over his outburst against the London mayor

Evening Standard

Muslim Vote group plans to 'punish' Labour party over Gaza stance

The party has been split on calls for a ceasefire for months

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer risks biggest rebellion of his leadership over Gaza vote, MPs warn

Labour backbenchers urge party not to whip them against SNP’s motion calling for immediate ceasefire

The Guardian - UK

Israel has gone ‘beyond self-defence’ in Gaza, says Labour’s Streeting

Frontbencher says party considering its options on SNP-led Commons vote on ceasefire later this week

Evening Standard

OPINION - Wes Streeting's election battle over Israel-Gaza is especially sad given Ilford's historic diversity

Two or three times a year my school would half-empty, leaving the remaining gentiles, Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims to twiddle our thumbs. That was because in Ilford, Jewish children were excused for religious holidays. It was, after all, a Jewish community. I grew up in the Ilford North constituency in…

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: The challenge to Wes Streeting in Ilford North is symptomatic of Labour's problem

Across the country, Labour is enjoying 20-point leads in the polls. But in individual constituencies, sitting MPs don’t feel so safe. Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting is perhaps the most high-profile example. The Ilford North MP is facing a challenge from an independent candidate over a single issue: Gaza.

Evening Standard

Bitter battle for Labour as independents target London MPs over Gaza

Pro-Palestinian candidates are working together in capital to unseat politicians who did not support a ceasefire

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