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Who is on this week's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg show – see full guest list

LAURA Kuenssberg will be joined by a variety of guests on her first BBC show of 2025 this Sunday ...

The National (Scotland)

Labour had plenty of time to ponder social care. Now it has a chance to deliver

Keir Starmer’s government can’t leave the urgent question of how social care will be funded to yet another commission

The Guardian - UK

Cash incentives for GPs under Labour’s radical plan to cut NHS waiting lists

Doctors will be given £20 each time they consult with a specialist to see if there is an alternative to hospital visits

The Guardian - UK

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Streeting vows NHS App upgrade will slash waiting times and give patients more choice

Under plans aimed at slashing waiting lists, the NHS App will be overhauled, giving patients more choice under the elective reform plan, which is set to be announced this week.

The Independent UK

Streeting: NHS App upgrade to give patients more choice in bid to cut wait times

The measures form part of the forthcoming elective reform plan.

The Independent UK

New year, new Keir? Labour have big plans for 2025 - including taking inspiration from Thatcher

The party’s manifesto promised big policy reforms. Now, with his popularity in freefall, the prime minister must deliver to change the political narrative

The Guardian - UK

Will there be a new grooming gangs inquiry and what did the previous one find?

Labour government facing pressure over its response to grooming gangs

The Independent UK

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UK Health Minister Slams Elon Musk's Attack on Government Handling of Gang Rapes: 'Misjudged and Certainly Misinformed'

Elon Musk faces backlash from UK officials after accusing the government of mishandling gang rapes.

Latin Times

Analysis: What the UK media and politicians get wrong about Elon Musk

TAKING a break from giving his backing to Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, Elon Musk has turned his eyes to the UK ...

The National (Scotland)

Wes Streeting says pensioners should ‘layer up’ as millions struggle without winter fuel payment

A yellow warning for snow and ice, which covers most of England and Wales, is in place from lunchtime on Saturday until 9am on Monday.

The Independent UK

Kate Garraway challenges Health Secretary on anniversary of husband’s death

The TV presenter grilled Wes Streeting over the ‘recruitment crisis’ in the social care sector and ‘terrible lack of underfunding’.

Evening Standard

Wes Streeting offers olive branch to Elon Musk after Keir Starmer criticism

Wes Streeting offered an olive branch to Elon Musk following his attacks on the UK government after Labour rejected a call for a national inquiry into child grooming.

The Independent UK

GMB host Kate Garraway calls out Wes Streeting for ‘excessive debt’ owed after husband’s death

‘People can’t afford four more years of this!’ frustrated host told Labour politician

The Independent UK

Kate Garraway grills Wes Streeting on her care debt one year since Derek Draper’s death

Kate Garraway grilled Wes Streeting about her care debts on the anniversary of her husband Derek Draper’s death on Friday, 3 January.

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Evening Standard

Kate Garraway describes 'excessive debt' left by husband Derek's care costs as she confronts Health Secretary

On the anniversary of her husband’s death, Kate Garraway said she had been left with ‘excessive, unpayable debt’ over his £16,000-a-month care costs

Evening Standard

Elon Musk grooming attacks ‘misjudged and misinformed’, Wes Streeting says

The Health Secretary offered an olive branch to tech billionaire Mr Musk, urging him to work with the UK Government to tackle online child abuse.

The Independent UK

Wes Streeting squirms when asked if he’d work for £12 an hour

Wes Streeting was grilled on whether he would work for £12-an-hour as care workers push for an increase in wages.

The National (Scotland)

Wes Streeting faces tense grilling over freezing pensioners amid cold snap

WES Streeting has faced a grilling over pensioners being forced to go into debt to turn their heating on after Labour cut the Winter Fuel Payment.

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Evening Standard

Put the heating on and layer up during cold snap, Health Secretary advises

The Health Secretary was asked about comments from Age UK that 2.5 million people need the winter fuel allowance but will not receive it.

The Guardian - UK

Cross-party talks on adult social care reform in England to start next month

Wes Streeting hit back at claims that Casey commission would take too long to act, saying ‘it’s reporting next year’

The Independent UK

People should be protected from catastrophic costs of upfront care – Streeting

The Health Secretary said ‘we’re determined to grip the crisis in social care’.

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting defends pace of plans for adult social care reform – as it happened

Health secretary says initial reports from commission led by Louise Casey will come next year

The Guardian - UK

Ministers plan biggest shake-up of adult social care in England for decades

But final report on reforms would not emerge until 2028, which health leaders say is kicking crisis ‘into the long grass’

The Guardian - UK

Britain has a social care crisis. Here’s how Labour plans to fix it

Our National Care Service will meet the urgent needs of our generation – just as the NHS did when it was created in 1948, says health secretary Wes Streeting

The Independent UK

Health secretary Wes Streeting defends delay in social care reforms

Health secretary Wes Streeting’s move ‘long overdue’ but will not substantially benefit older people for up to another decade as he is warned the sector is ‘on its last legs’

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