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Labour 'plotting power grab' through Scotland Office if elected

THE SNP have accused Labour of a Tory-style “power-grab plot” over plans to “transform” the Scotland Office, which includes a pledge to…

The National (Scotland)

Starmer acts to protect women who blow whistle on sex-pest bosses

Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s former wife Marina Wheeler is to be Labour’s ‘whistleblower tsar’

The Independent UK

Hunt’s speech pleases Tory faithful but is unlikely to resonate with voters

Cost of living crisis, rising unemployment and extended NHS waiting times will determine government’s chances in general election

The Guardian - UK

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Calls for a big increase in UK spending on preventative policies

Demos says Treasury should create separate spending category to help prioritise measures that prevent problems from arising

The Guardian - UK

Sunak warned he is ‘risking cohesion of country’ as Labour mayors meet over HS2

Labour mayors Sadiq Khan, Andy Burnham, Tracy Brabin, Oliver Coppard and Steve Rotheram gathered in Leeds to warn against further rail cuts.

The Independent UK

Labour’s Andy Burnham warns he could sue Sunak government if HS2 axed

‘We’re not going to take things lying down – they will be hearing from us,’ says Manchester mayor

The Independent UK

Pepper spray could be used at young offender institutions in England and Wales

Exclusive: Whitehall sources say use of Pava to incapacitate children is under consideration amid sharp rise in violence

The Guardian - UK

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Labour Party hiring former civil servants ‘in preparation of forming government’

It has reportedly hired more than a dozen former Whitehall staffers as it prepares for a potential election victory

Evening Standard

Labour on hiring spree across Whitehall in preparation for government

Exclusive: More than a dozen civil servants from different departments have moved to party in past 18 months

The Guardian - UK

‘This can only end badly’: Tories fear Sunak policy blitz is bound to fail

The prime minister has reset his party’s agenda with a wave of new initiatives. But is it a coherent strategy or a blind panic?

The Guardian - UK

Grant Shapps hints at change to HS2 plans amid £8bn cost shock

Defence secretary says it would be ‘irresponsible’ to finance scheme if cost soars

Evening Standard

Rishi Sunak pushes to axe northern HS2 rail line ahead of Tory conference

Sources say the PM wants to scrap the project’s section o Manchester before the party’s annual gathering in the city next weekend

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Generals like Shapps because he was not a soldier

By any Whitehall standard, the Ministry of Defence is a weird place. I am not just referring to its forbidding architectural lines, partly Orwell’s 1984 Ministry of Truth and Harry Potter’s Hogwarts, but its very nature. It is a hybrid, a frontline Whitehall ministry and an active military headquarters.

Evening Standard

Developers and their Tory allies are killing the high street. Only a people’s revolt can stop them now

While local shops in countries such as France are protected, the UK is crippled by lax planning laws and sky-high business rates, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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Braverman to have Home Office diversity training vetted after ‘woke’ claims

Exclusive: Leaked documents show plans for senior managers to decide which courses can be attended in work hours

The Independent UK

Rishi Sunak’s leadership questioned as studies sow levelling up doubt

Two reports by influential think tanks have been critical of efforts to address regional inequalities.

The Independent UK

Britain’s international reputation damaged due to aid cuts and ‘rushed’ merger, says watchdog

It is nothing short of disastrous for those whose lives are supported by UK aid, charity says

The Independent UK

Aid cuts and department merger have harmed UK’s reputation, says watchdog

The Government added to external pressures on the development programme with political turbulence, budget reductions and Brexit, a report said.

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The Independent UK

Shortage of cyber-security experts ‘should send chill down Government’s spine’

The civil service has fewer than half the number of data and technology professionals it needs, MPs have said.

The Guardian - UK

Sue Gray quickly gets stuck in as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff

Former civil servant offers morale boost and promises Labour staff she ‘has their back’

The Guardian - UK

No 10 rejects MPs’ plan to stop ministers putting friends on Whitehall boards

Tory MP William Wragg calls decision not to prevent ‘super-spads’ being made non-executive directors ‘disappointing’

The Guardian - UK

DfE accused of covering up crumbling concrete at Scottish school for months

Exclusive: Scottish government sources say they were kept in dark about evidence of decay at a private school in Perthshire

Evening Standard

OPINION - Keir Starmer’s new-look Labour is fashioned in the hope of power

When Keir Starmer offered the role of chief of staff to Sue Gray, the senior civil servant who oversaw the partygate inquiry, he craved an organiser on his inner team who understood the interlocking levers of Whitehall — and the pitfalls of operating them.

The Independent UK

Sunak rejected funding request to fix more crumbling schools, minister says

Schools minister Nick Gibb said funding to rebuild 200 schools a year was requested but the PM granted funding for 50 a year.

The Guardian - UK

Collapsing schools are the latest sign of a crumbling country – and a lesson in Tory cost-cutting

What other shoddy quick fixes are we yet to discover, asks Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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