The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The Tories are trailing third in the polls and look set for local election disaster. If Reform is the answer, she may have to go Kemi Badenoch may only be four months into her leadership, but already Westminster is talking about her successor. Nigel Farage declared over t...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
After the welfare cuts backlash the chancellor is being warned about how she wields the scalpel in her spring statement The ferocious backla...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
A day with a care worker in Bury showed me the intolerable pressures of her life – and then I heard the news of a new squeeze on benefitsJust under a fortnight ago, ...
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Sky News » 3 weeks ago
The government is telling local councils they must publish data on how many potholes they have fixed or risk losing their share of an extra £500m set aside for fixing roads....
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Sky News » 3 weeks ago
Fraud experts are set to investigate suspicions thousands of students are fraudulently claiming hundreds of millions of pounds in student loans with no plans to study - or pay the money back....
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Sky News » 3 weeks ago
Sir Ed Davey has launched a furious attack on "unpatriotic" Nigel Farage for once saying he "admires" Vladimir Putin, claiming the Reform leader would "turn our great country into little more than a Donald Trump tribute act"....
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Talks to take place with operators about the scheme, announced in 2020, which has failed to make any grantsMinisters are considering diverting money from a £950m scheme to install rapid chargers for electric cars on the UK’s motorways, announced five years ago, after it f...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Poll finds up to 48% of voters believe Scottish students who can afford it should pay, with 29% opposedScottish voters are divided over Scotland’s policy of free tuition for Scottish students as the crisis over university finances intensified.A poll com...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey walk us through what we can expect to hear when Rachel Reeves makes her spring statement on Wednesday. With the government facing downgraded growth forecasts, rising borrowing costs and the threat of Donald Trump’s tariffs, how can it boost the economy and save...
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The Guardian » 3 weeks ago
The biggest area of risk – in terms of lives lost and cost – involves NHS maternity units. Organisation upheaval must not distract us from what matters mostI was the health secretary when NHS England was set up. Although there are advantages to depoliticising operational ...
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