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Rachel Reeves has privately indicated she will not target pension tax relief rates in next week’s Budget
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Reeves rules out major change to pension savings in Budget
The Chancellor is now days away from delivering her make-or-break Budget
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November 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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🚨Brexit reset defence deal unravelling as UK threatens to quit talks

Defence Sec John Healey tells me Britain will not join EU weapons fund at "any price"
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Brexit reset defence deal unravelling as UK threatens to quit talks
Defence Secretary John Healey has rejected the EU's cash demands
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November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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🚨NEW Children face deportation under Mahmood's migration crackdown

Home Office to start targeting families with under-18s for removal if their asylum claims fail.

Reminder: Farage's Reform rowed back on plans to deport children in August
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Children face deportation under Mahmood's migration crackdown
Home Secretary says right to family life is creating 'perverse incentives' to risk children's lives on boats
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November 17, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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'F**cking deranged': How No10's bid to squash Streeting for leader backfired

Cabinet ministers, Government and party insiders, and MPs on Labour's new civil war

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'F***king deranged': How No10's bid to squash Streeting for leader backfired
A briefing against Wes Streeting has exposed a 'toxic culture' in No10
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November 12, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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UK ready to quit crucial Brexit reset defence deal due to EU demanding billions

But Brussels thinks London will pay as British defence firms have bids for cash ready to go this month

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UK ready to quit crucial Brexit reset defence deal due to EU demanding billions
Defence exports are a key part of the Government's plan to grow the economy
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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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BREAKING Reeves appears to admit she'll break tax pledge from manifesto in Budget

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Reeves admits she'll break tax pledge from manifesto in Budget
Chancellor says keeping promise will come at the price of "deep cuts"
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November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Exc: Farage's 'gold plated' pension reform plan faces firefighters strike threat inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Farage's 'gold plated' pension reform plan faces firefighters strike threat
Reform set to say they would axe 'defined' pensions used in public sector
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November 5, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Councils spending thousands cleaning 'flag wars' graffiti

exc by @eleanormia.bsky.social

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Councils spending thousands cleaning 'flag wars' graffiti
One MP said the cost of cleaning up flags painted on buildings and roundabouts means 'less money for real public services that are already underfunded'
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November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Rachel Reeves set to argue manifesto-busting tax rises may be needed to save austerity-hit public services or growth and cost of living will suffer inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Starmer signals basic rate income tax rise to 'avoid austerity'
No 10 has changed its language and is no longer ruling out tax rises which would break key a manifesto pledge
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October 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Barracks plan to house asylum seekers ‘has been rejected before’ inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Barracks plan to house asylum seekers ‘has been rejected before’
A charity working with asylum seekers also said camps would 'only serve to re-traumatise people who have already survived horrors such as war and torture'
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October 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Home Office could house migrants in 'Portakabins' in bid to close asylum hotels inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Home Office could house migrants in 'Portakabins' in bid to close asylum hotels
The i Paper understands that pop-up modular accommodation is being looked at as an alternative to hotels
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October 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Caerphilly analysis:

Labour's by-election humbling signals doom - but Farage has failed too inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Labour's by-election humbling signals doom in Wales - but Farage has failed too
There are some seriously bad omens for Sir Keir Starmer in the Caerphilly by-election result
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October 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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EXC: UK wants to protect Brexit freedoms on gene editing and animal welfare in EU food deal negotiations, official letter shows

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UK's red lines in Brexit reset food deal revealed
Letter shared exclusively with The i Paper shows Britain is concerned about live animal exports, gene editing and foie gras
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October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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‘Voters will go to Reform’: Labour anger as Starmer pushes on with digital ID - big read as MPs return to Parliament

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‘Voters will go to Reform’: Labour anger as Starmer pushes on with digital ID
Controversies over the collapse of the China spies trial, a brutal tax-raising budget and reforms to special educational needs also loom for the PM
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October 11, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Big read: Spectre of Farage pushes Tories to the right inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Spectre of Farage pushes Tories to the right
But big economic differences are opening up between the Tories and Reform
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October 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Asylum hotel closures could be be fast-tracked to help Reeves balance books in Budget, Treasury source indicates

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Asylum hotel closures could be be fast-tracked to help Reeves balance books in Budget
Treasury says asylum costs are 'top of the list' for savings
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October 3, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Support us or make Farage PM, Starmer tells anti-Reform voters

Labour campaigners told to “squeeze” moderate voters who fear Farage as PM

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Support us or make Farage PM, Starmer tells anti-Reform voters
Labour has launched a new campaign strategy to 'squeeze the anti-Reform vote'
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September 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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EXC

Revealed: Lobbying firm's 'cash-for-access' to PM's speech briefing

Anacta, run by the husband of Labour's general secretary, counts an Israeli-owned arms manufacturer among its clients

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Revealed: Lobbying firm's 'cash-for-access' to PM's speech
Critics said the move undermines Labour's promise to crack down on lobbying
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September 26, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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EXC 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Crunch negotiations on Erasmus+

EU wants a quick deal by end of next month so student exchanges can start in 2027

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UK students get chance to study in Europe from January 2027 under new Erasmus deal
The EU is pushing for a rapid agreement for Britain to rejoin the student exchange scheme
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September 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Farage's plan to deport legal migrants 'would split families' inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Farage's plan to deport legal migrants 'would split families'
Abolishing indefinite leave to remain could see parents separated from their children who are UK citizens, experts warn
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September 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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EXC: Several Labour MPs tell whips they have no confidence in Keir Starmer

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Rebel Labour MPs warn whips they have no confidence in Starmer
One Labour MP tells The i Paper there is a 'pervading sense of doom and gloom' around PM's leadership while another says it is a case of 'when, not if' he is replaced
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September 17, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Big read on new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood:

Labour's Thatcher-lite 'street-fighter' tasked with saving Keir Starmer inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Labour's Thatcher-lite 'street-fighter' tasked with saving Keir Starmer
Hopes are high the new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will get to grips with migration
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September 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Mahmood looking at changes/reforms to UN Refugee Convention. Great scoop from @arjsingh.bsky.social

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Home Secretary set to target global refugee laws in bid to end small boat crossings
The new Home Secretary is setting her sights on the UN Refugee Convention
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September 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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EXC: Home Secretary set to target global refugee laws in bid to end small boat crossings

Shabana Mahmood exploring if changes are needed on the Refugee Convention to make deportation easier

Comes amid reports Trump wants to redefine asylum at the UN

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Home Secretary set to target global refugee laws in bid to end small boat crossings
The new Home Secretary is setting her sights on the UN Refugee Convention
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September 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Starmer moves to stop damaging splits undermining his leadership as Rayner quits inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Starmer moves to stop damaging splits undermining his leadership as Rayner quits
Party chiefs are desperate to avoid an election for Angela Rayner's vacated role as deputy leader of the Labour Party
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September 5, 2025 at 11:51 PM