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• Rapid UK pay growth adds to pressure on Healey over minimum wage

  22-10-2026 13:33 via UK politics
  Latest earnings data shows strong wage increases, especially for managers and workers in London
  
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• The tentative return of the old politics

  22-10-2026 13:14 via UK politics
  Burnham is clawing back the lost Labour vote while Badenoch appears to have seen off Reform’s talk of destroying the Tories
  
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• Fixing Britain’s welfare state and the limits of AI policymaking

  22-10-2026 10:35 via UK politics
  Dependence on the technology risks worsening what Starmer dubbed ‘the warm bath of managed decline’ in Whitehall
  
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• Has Andy Burnham won over British voters?

  22-10-2026 06:00 via UK politics
  The FT’s focus group gathered views on the prime minister as he approaches his first 100 days in office
  
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• A dangerous threat to UK company rules must be scrapped

  22-10-2026 06:00 via UK politics
  Proposal to ditch the regime on capital distributions such as dividends risks lower growth and weaker businesses
  
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• EU set to delay push for cheaper UK university fees for bloc’s students

  21-10-2026 20:58 via UK politics
  Concession could help the two sides finalise a ‘reset’ deal at a summit next month
  
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• Burnham proposes plan to cut standing charges from gas bills

  21-10-2026 19:06 via BBC News
  
  The prime minister provided little detail, and there are questions over shifting the fees onto unit costs.
  
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• 'Mindset shift' needed within government on No10 North, says deputy

  21-10-2026 19:05 via BBC News
  
  Number 10 North deputy director Duncan Parish has told a conference he is still facing "institutional barriers".
  
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• How Jackdaw ignites row over climate and costs

  21-10-2026 18:51 via BBC News
  
  The UK government approves production from Jackdaw amid intense debate about the project's environmental and economic impact.
  
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• Burnham defends Jackdaw decision as Badenoch urges PM to overturn ban on new oil and gas licences

  21-10-2026 17:36 via BBC News
  
  The UK government says the field, which is opposed by environmental campaigners, could be producing gas by the end of this month.
  
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• Holocaust school lessons to be improved after 'shocking' antisemitism review

  21-10-2026 17:24 via BBC News
  
  Education Secretary Lucy Powell has stressed the importance of reminding new generations of the horrors of the Holocaust.
  
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• Reform reports ITV to police over undercover documentary

  21-10-2026 17:12 via UK politics
  Zia Yusuf says tactics behind programme that showed party councillors making sexist and racist comments may have been illegal
  
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• Tory MP questions government advisor's position after wife's Palestine Action post

  21-10-2026 16:50 via BBC News
  
  A Downing Street spokeswoman tells the BBC Sarah Helm "does not represent the government in any capacity".
  
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• Jailed former DUP leader Jeffrey Donaldson being investigated over alleged rape inside Parliament

  21-10-2026 16:26 via BBC News
  
  While not naming the disgraced former MP, the Metropolitan Police has issued a statement confirming a 63-year-old man is being investigated.
  
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• Andy Burnham plans to cut standing charges from household gas bills

  21-10-2026 15:34 via UK politics
  Experts say providers would probably recover loss of daily fixed fee via the unit rate
  
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• Faisal Islam: Inflation and borrowing figures illustrate chancellor's Budget challenge

  21-10-2026 12:20 via BBC News
  
  The economic figures released on Wednesday show the constraints for John Healey as he puts the finishing touches to his Budget.
  
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• Inflation and government borrowing highest for a year ahead of next week's Budget

  21-10-2026 12:16 via BBC News
  
  Inflation accelerated to 3.5% from 3.1% in the year to September, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
  
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• Chris Mason: Jackdaw approved but tricky energy trade-offs remain

  21-10-2026 10:49 via BBC News
  
  Jackdaw and Rosebank are case studies in the slow motion awkwardness the UK has over energy.
  
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• What is happening to UK prices?

  21-10-2026 10:35 via BBC News
  
  UK inflation rose in September, pushed up by higher petrol and diesel prices.
  
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• Burnham’s North Sea ‘pragmatism’ is no big shift from Starmer’s

  21-10-2026 10:30 via UK politics
  Plus, why Ed Davey believes the prime minister is about to call an early election
  
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• UK inflation and borrowing top forecasts in blow to Healey

  21-10-2026 09:18 via UK politics
  Figure comes ahead of next week’s Budget and will cement expectations of Bank of England rate rise in November
  
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• UK approves development of Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea

  21-10-2026 08:18 via UK politics
  Ministers give go-ahead to project about 150 miles east of Aberdeen
  
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• UK government borrowing rises to £24.5bn ahead of Budget

  21-10-2026 08:10 via UK politics
  Higher-than-expected figures for September are final snapshot of the public finances before Budget on October 28
  
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• UK inflation rose more than expected to 3.5% in September

  21-10-2026 08:01 via UK politics
  Figure will strengthen expectations of Bank of England rate rise in November 
  
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• Stratford moves closer to international rail upgrade with Budget boost

  21-10-2026 06:00 via UK politics
  London mayor Sadiq Khan has been in talks over funding options for improving rail hub
  
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• Healey to quash visa hopes for wealthy in UK Budget

  21-10-2026 06:00 via UK politics
  Move comes despite plans for scheme for investors being well advanced under Keir Starmer
  
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• Healey to quash visa hopes for wealthy in Budget

  21-10-2026 06:00 via UK politics
  Move comes despite plans for scheme for investors being well advanced under Keir Starmer
  
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• Britain cannot build its future by returning to the 1970s

  21-10-2026 06:00 via UK politics
  The past is always a foreign country
  
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• Andy Burnham cools on new towns project

  21-10-2026 06:00 via UK politics
  UK prime minister wants mayors to take responsibility for major housebuilding projects as part of his devolution push
  
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• A pre-Budget day guide to Britain’s bad taxes

  21-10-2026 06:00 via UK politics
  This is not the end of a list of potential reforms. It is barely even a start
  
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• UK to approve development of Jackdaw gasfield in North Sea

  21-10-2026 00:31 via UK politics
  Ministers to give go-ahead on Wednesday to the project about 150 miles east of Aberdeen
  
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• Second Labour MP suspended over Covid loan repayments

  20-10-2026 23:20 via BBC News
  
  Perran Moon, MP for Camborne and Redruth, voluntarily referred himself for investigation.
  
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• UK bets on a boring budget

  20-10-2026 22:00 via UK politics
  Priority number one: Don’t spook the bond market
  
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• 'Let's move on': Albertans react to separatist movement setback

  20-10-2026 21:31 via BBC News
  
  Preliminary referendum results show that more than two-thirds of Alberta voters support remaining part of Canada, easing concerns over national unity.
  
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• Jane Dodds standing down as Welsh Liberal Democrats leader

  20-10-2026 20:40 via BBC News
  
  Dodds said it was time to hand over the leadership to a "new generation" after nearly nine years in the role.
  
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• Farage vows to scrap tax on armed forces reserves

  20-10-2026 19:59 via BBC News
  
  A large group of protesters turned up outside the Reform UK rally in Plymouth with Nigel Farage.
  
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• Who is Chancellor John Healey? Labour veteran who quit as defence secretary

  20-10-2026 18:26 via BBC News
  
  The softly-spoken former defence secretary is gearing up for the biggest moment of his long political career.
  
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• Britain’s budget should build on its economic resilience

  20-10-2026 18:15 via UK politics
  Burnham and Healey must look beyond industrial nostalgia to the UK’s modern strengths
  
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• Reform leader accuses MSP of 'squatting' in seat after resignation

  20-10-2026 17:57 via BBC News
  
  Malcolm Offord says he is 'disappointed' at Amanda Bland's decision to leave the party and sit as an independent.
  
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• Labour will not have the courage to cut spending, says Badenoch

  20-10-2026 16:46 via BBC News
  
  Speaking ahead of next week's Budget, the Conservative leader says her party would make £70bn of cuts.
  
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• Burnham risks wrath of Commons Speaker for talking too much at PMQs

  20-10-2026 14:54 via BBC News
  
  The prime minister takes longer than his predecessors to respond to questions from MPs, writes Matt Chorley.
  
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• Bereaved families could face 'unjust' tax bill after civil service pension delays

  20-10-2026 14:36 via BBC News
  
  The chairman of Parliament's Public Accounts Committee says families should not be taxed through no fault of their own.
  
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• Immigration protests 'could get worse', says Badenoch

  20-10-2026 14:01 via BBC News
  
  Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch warned of immigration protests getting worse as France deals with riots across the country.
  
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• Jobless rate falls but small firms cut back hiring

  20-10-2026 13:26 via BBC News
  
  Small firms cite labour costs as a key factor in scaling back hiring, the Office for National Statistics says.
  
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• ‘Protect the NHS’ slogan hurt care home residents in pandemic, inquiry finds

  20-10-2026 13:00 via UK politics
  Adult social care sector was ‘afterthought’ in initial weeks of Covid-19 outbreak, says Baroness Heather Hallett
  
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• UK to deploy jets to defend Saudi Arabia against Houthi attacks

  20-10-2026 12:45 via UK politics
  Move to defend ally comes as kingdom has been pummelled by strikes from the militant group
  
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• Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax in Budget

  20-10-2026 12:06 via BBC News
  
  Influential Labour figures had been pushing for equalising CGT and income tax, but critics have said this could drive wealthy people out of Britain.
  
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• Burnham vows end to 'rip-off parking charges' under new rules

  20-10-2026 10:55 via BBC News
  
  The changes come after concerns that penalties issued by private providers are too harsh and leave motorists unfairly punished.
  
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• What is the Budget and what could be in it?

  20-10-2026 10:31 via BBC News
  
  Chancellor John Healey will set out his plans for UK taxes on 28 October.
  
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• Restore forces Nigel Farage into an ugly race to his right

  20-10-2026 10:30 via UK politics
  Rupert Lowe’s hardline policies sap support from Reform just as it seeks to wrest the centre right from the Tories
  
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