Category: UK Politics
Warning Labour’s benefit changes will create two-tier system lasting ‘decades’
The reforms are ‘difficult to justify,’ an influential think tank said
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Farage rows back on plan to deport children in Reform asylum crackdown
Nigel Farage said Reform would detain and deport women and children to tackle the small boats crisis – but a day later insisted media reports were ‘wrong, wrong, wrong’
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UK exports to US plummet in wake of Trump tariffs
Sales were £2bn lower in three months compared to the same quarter last year, the British Chambers of Commerce warned
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Don’t put expensive items at front of stores because ‘people will nick them’, minister tells shopkeepers
The warning comes as chief of supermarket chain Iceland said shoplifting is getting worse because offenders appear to be able to act with ‘impunity’
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Tulip Siddiq’s anti-corruption trial formally begins in Bangladesh
Former British minister says she is ‘collateral damage’ in the fight between her aunt and Muhammad Yunus
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Confusion over whether migrants can use human rights ‘loophole’ to avoid return to France
The treaty contains a clause that says in order for people to be returned to France, the UK must confirm they do not have an ‘outstanding human rights claim’
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Rachel Reeves faces ‘impossible trilemma’ and must raise taxes or cut spending to plug £50bn black hole
Leading economists say the chancellor may have to raise taxes, cut public spending or tear up her fiscal rules
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Voices: ‘The whole tax system needs radical reform’: Readers weigh in on Reeves’ fiscal trilemma
Our community is split on how Rachel Reeves should resolve her fiscal trilemma, with readers divided between raising taxes, cutting spending, relaxing borrowing rules or boosting growth through closer EU ties
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Arab nations tell Hamas to ‘disarm’ and end rule of Gaza after Starmer ultimatum
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt said the terrorist group must play no part in the future of Palestine
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Reform voters think Corbyn is more intelligent, hardworking and honest than Starmer, new poll shows
The brutal polling comes despite Sir Keir’s attempts to drag his party to the right to see off the threat from Nigel Farage
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