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Flying Ukraine flags ‘a visible symbol of UK’s unwavering support’ – Government

A spokesperson said: “Our support for Ukraine’s independence will be clear for all to see.”

The Independent UK

Who decides when and where you work? The battle is raging in Whitehall, and the result may affect us all

The dispute over hybrid working at the Office for National Statistics is becoming a key test of worker power, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Want more productivity, Rachel Reeves? It’s time to embrace Mancunian swagger

Manchester is closing the gap on London, with public money having helped to ‘crowd in’ a lot of private investment

The Guardian - UK

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A UK headline wealth tax? It may be simpler to put up existing taxes

Amid party divisions and issues with data, pulling existing tax levers could be a more politically palatable option

The Guardian - UK

Voices: Is Keir Starmer just one crisis away from a Labour coup?

COMMENT: Party strategists are busy working out how to escape the chancellor’s doom loop of tax rises – and to crush damaging speculation about her boss’s ability to lead his party into the next general election. But the race to replace the PM may already have begun, says Andrew Grice

The Independent UK

Revealed: Britain's Chagos Islands surrender to Mauritius '10 times what Sir Keir Starmer has claimed in public'

Giving away the Indian Ocean archipelago to the east African nation will cost £35 billion, Whitehall estimates suggest

Evening Standard

‘She’s the one that matters’: the growing influence of Melania on Donald Trump

First lady is facing increased scrutiny as political experts suggest she is behind US president’s recent volte-faces on Gaza and Putin

The Guardian - UK

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Reeves and Starmer to prepare ground for tax rises in a difficult autumn budget

Exclusive: The Guardian has been told that discussions about increases include a near-certain gambling levy

The Guardian - UK

The biggest problem for Starmer and co: the machinery of government is broken and they can’t fix it

The prisons crisis is symptomatic of a dysfunctional system that is defeating these ministers as badly as those before them, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Dame Stella Rimington obituary

First female head of MI5 seen as a Whitehall street fighter whose most controversial role was countering ‘subversion’

The Guardian - UK

Government accused of plot to silence critics of asylum seeker hotels and 'two-tier' policing

Whitehall officials have allegedly been flagging social media accounts to Big Tech firms which criticise immigration

Evening Standard

New UK civil service internship scheme open only to working-class students

Minister says programme will help ensure Whitehall has ‘broadest range of talent and truly reflects the country’

The Guardian - UK

Parents’ jobs to determine who gets civil service internships

Civil service internships will be given out based on applicants’ parents’ jobs when they were 14

The Independent UK

Civil service internships to be restricted to working class

‘We need to get more working-class young people into the Civil Service so it harnesses the broadest range of talent and truly reflects the country’

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The Guardian - UK

Help wanted: Reeves seeks heavyweight economic advisers as budget looms

Chancellor under pressure to recruit new experts as John Van Reenen and Anna Valero return to academia

Evening Standard

Former Whitehall chief Simon Case takes seat on red benches in House of Lords

The 46-year-old, who served four prime ministers, will sit as an independent crossbencher.

The Independent UK

Preventing violence against women and girls must remain a priority

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Our second refuge – built thanks to the generosity of our readers – is complete. But far more work is needed to tackle the scourge of domestic abuse

Evening Standard

Fujitsu ‘kicking can down the road’ on compensation, says Post Office campaigner

The Government is being urged to stop awarding contracts to the Japanese tech giant.

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Evening Standard

Government promises community control as ‘new dawn’ Bill introduced

The legislation includes measures to boost the power of mayors and deliver a ‘radical reset of local government’.

The Guardian - UK

UK government’s deal with Google ‘dangerously naive’, say campaigners

Company to provide free technology and ‘upskill’ civil servants but concerns raised over UK data being held on US servers

The Guardian - UK

If ministers want to see how welfare reform can be done, come see us in Greater Manchester

Prevention beats cure in our view. Targeting issues like housing, personal debt and mental health will get people into work and cut the benefits bill, says Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham

Evening Standard

Government could help City firms fund defence industry – taskforce report

Ministers have been urged to produce a 10-year outlook revealing their intentions for equipment procurement.

The Guardian - UK

‘Women were grabbed and dragged away like sacks’ – a history of British protest in pictures

Since 1963, when he photographed a fellow student being arrested, David Hoffman has turned his camera on rebels and rioters. His archive tells an alternative story of Britain, from Greenham Common to students marching on Whitehall

The Independent UK

Voices: Whitehall isn’t working – here’s how the PM can fix it

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: Keir Starmer complains that the government machine is slow to crank into life when he demands action. To prevent his ‘mission-driven’ domestic agenda from being doomed to failure, the prime minister should first get rid of the Cabinet Office, says Andrew Grice

The Guardian - UK

Tears and prayers as MPs reflect on the journey to a historic assisted dying vote

At the end there was high tension on both sides of a debate that for some was deeply personal

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