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• New faces

  11-06-2017 14:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A record number of women, LGBT and ethnic minority MPs are elected.
  
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• Use more AI and video hearings to fix English courts system, report says

  04-02-2026 01:01
  UK government is grappling with unprecedented backlog of 80,000 criminal cases
  
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• NHS drugs deal with US to cost £1bn over next three years

  04-02-2026 01:01
  Science minister Patrick Vallance says Department of Health will fund the extra spending out of its existing budget
  
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• Police launch criminal investigation into Mandelson over Epstein scandal

  03-02-2026 20:24
  Peer provided convicted sex offender with sensitive UK government information while a minister, emails show
  
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• Mandelson faces criminal investigation over Epstein scandal

  03-02-2026 20:24
  Peer provided convicted sex offender with sensitive UK government information while a minister, emails show
  
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• Birmingham City Council says it is no longer ‘bankrupt’

  03-02-2026 20:16
  The announcement, ahead of a council election in May, caps years of funding cuts and asset sales
  
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• Mandelson quits House of Lords

  03-02-2026 16:03
  Peer gave sex offender Jeffrey Epstein access to UK government decision-making while serving in cabinet
  
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• Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm tells clients his stake is nearly divested

  03-02-2026 15:09
  Peer has been the subject of revelations that he passed on confidential government information to Jeffrey Epstein
  
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• Mandelson row hits Starmer already at rock bottom

  03-02-2026 10:40
  Morgan McSweeney could be forced out over misjudgment, raising stakes for PM’s survival
  
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• Starmer seeks to push forward with delayed defence investment plan

  03-02-2026 06:00
  Meeting convened by UK prime minister comes as officials examine ways of overriding multi-billion pound funding gap
  
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• No, the public is not irredeemably ignorant

  03-02-2026 06:00
  But there is a disconnect between economists’ metrics and people’s perceptions
  
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• Arbitration for divorces in England and Wales doubles in two years

  03-02-2026 06:00
  Couples who split up increasingly seek to reach financial settlement outside overburdened court system
  
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• Arbitration for divorces in England and Wales doubles in 2 years

  03-02-2026 06:00
  Couples who split up increasingly seek to reach financial settlement outside overburdened court system
  
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• Epstein files reveal Peter Mandelson supported campaign to undermine then-Australian PM Kevin Rudd’s mining super profits tax

  03-02-2026 05:46 via theguardian.com
  Former UK Labour minister wrote ‘pressure needs to be maintained’ against Australian Labor’s proposed tax in email sent two weeks before Rudd was replaced as PMFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA former UK Labour minister supported a campaign to undermine the Rudd Labor government’s proposed mining super profits tax in Australia, a document published in the latest tranche of the Epstein files r
  
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• Reeves takes aim at Trump in call for UK and EU to speak with one voice on trade

  02-02-2026 21:47
  British chancellor in talks with EU commissioners aimed at deepening economic integration
  
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• Reeves takes aim at Trump as she calls for UK and EU to speak with one voice on trade

  02-02-2026 21:47
  British chancellor participates in talks with the bloc focused on resetting relations between the two sides
  
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• Met to review reports of alleged misconduct in public office after latest Epstein files release - as it happened

  02-02-2026 21:39 via theguardian.com
  Gordon Brown calls for inquiry over Peter Mandelson’s apparent disclosure of highly sensitive government information to Jeffrey EpsteinPeter Mandelson “leaked a sensitive UK government document to Jeffrey Epstein while he was business secretary that proposed £20bn of asset sales and revealed Labour’s tax policy plans”, the Financial Times is reporting.In his story, Jim Pickard says:The memo, dubbed “Business Issues”, was written on June 13 2009 by Nick B
  
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• Mandelson could face police inquiry over alleged leak to Epstein

  02-02-2026 21:38 via theguardian.com
  Met police assessing reports of alleged misconduct in public office after government information apparently sharedPeter Mandelson is facing a possible police investigation into his alleged leak of market-sensitive information to Jeffrey Epstein at the height of the financial crisis.New disclosures from the Epstein files appear to show Mandelson sent a string of emails to the late sex offender containing confidential information that the government was receiving to deal with the global crash whil
  
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• Police to review allegations against Mandelson in Epstein scandal

  02-02-2026 21:16
  Metropolitan Police announces move after revelations former minister leaked confidential information to sex offender
  
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• How much did the Epstein poison infect Britain? Starmer had better find out, and fast | Gaby Hinsliff

  02-02-2026 20:41 via theguardian.com
  Serious questions need to be asked about Mandelson, Andrew and what the PM knew when. The credibility of UK politics is on the linePeter Mandelson did not want, he wrote disdainfully to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, to “live by salary alone”. Not for him the life of the little guy, slave to a mere six-figure salary: he had always aspired to something grander, a lifestyle well beyond his means, to which rich men such as Epstein were so often his passport.First it was his
  
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• ‘Where r u? I miss you’: how vivid new Epstein emails sealed Mandelson’s fate

  02-02-2026 20:18 via theguardian.com
  The latest revelations and reaction to them may mean he has finally encountered a scandal he is unable to outrun It was the evening of 6 May 2010 and, months after being released from jail for procuring a child for prostitution, Jeffrey Epstein was curious as to the result of Britain’s general election.“Well?” he emailed Peter Mandelson, the then de facto deputy prime minister in Gordon Brown’s government. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on the Mandelson-Epstein emails: unavoidable questions of misconduct in public office | Editorial

  02-02-2026 20:12 via theguardian.com
  Leaking crisis policy to financiers demands investigation, not evasion. Gordon Brown understands this. Credibility can’t be pursued at the expense of trustFinally, a Labour prime minister has taken a necessary step. Ordering the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson’s contacts with Jeffrey Epstein recognises an elementary truth: if a cabinet minister discusses private government business with financial interests during a crisis, the state must act. Gordon Br
  
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• Resident doctors in England vote to continue industrial action for another six months

  02-02-2026 19:50 via theguardian.com
  British Medical Association members back further action as union’s chair says ‘a deal is there to be done’Resident doctors in England have voted to strike for another six months in their long-running jobs and pay dispute with the government.Their decision means that, unless an agreement emerges, the campaign of strikes by resident – formerly junior – doctors will enter its fourth year, as the industrial action began in March 2023. Continue reading...
  
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• Ben Jennings on Keir Starmer, Peter Mandelson and the Epstein files – cartoon

  02-02-2026 19:44 via theguardian.com
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• The Guardian view on London’s nightlife: how to share city space is best resolved locally | Editorial

  02-02-2026 19:25 via theguardian.com
  The capital’s hospitality industry and cultural sector is vital but ensuring democratic consent is necessary for its expansion – and survivalSir Sadiq Khan’s musical tastes tend toward soft rock and pop. But throughout his tenure as mayor of London he has positioned himself as a friend to its ravers, rockers and late-night revellers with his oft-relaunched vision of a culturally and economically vibrant “24‑hour city”. Those ambitions have fallen short of thei
  
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• This is what a proper Brexit looks like

  02-02-2026 19:00
  Prosperity and security will be driven by removing unnecessary barriers that hold businesses back
  
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• No more get-out clauses, no way back. It’s surely the end for Peter Mandelson, finally | John Crace

  02-02-2026 18:11 via theguardian.com
  The only question now is how it took this long for Labour’s greedy, reckless Prince of Darkness to meet his reckoningThis is the end, beautiful friend, the end. There have been many Peter Mandelson resignations. Twice from the cabinet, once as the UK ambassador to Washington. But the announcement late on Sunday night that Mandelson was resigning from the Labour party somehow felt more final.In the past, there had always been get-out clauses. Unexpected routes back to the centre of power. N
  
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• Gordon Brown asks top civil servant to investigate Mandelson ‘leak to Epstein’

  02-02-2026 17:53 via theguardian.com
  Ex-PM asks cabinet secretary to investigate whether Mandelson shared market-sensitive informationThe former prime minister Gordon Brown has asked the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson’s apparent disclosure of highly sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein.Mandelson was business secretary during Brown’s premiership, when he appears to have leaked an economic briefing to Epstein, who was serving a jail sentence at the time for soliciting prostitution from a m
  
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• Can Peter Mandelson be stripped of his peerage over Epstein links?

  02-02-2026 16:59 via theguardian.com
  Keir Starmer wants the Labour peer removed from the House of Lords but such a move is exceptionally complexKeir Starmer has said he wants Peter Mandelson out of the House of Lords, after the peer was found to have deeper links with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, including emails which suggested Epstein had sent thousands of pounds to Lord Mandelson’s husband.Others appeared to show confidential market-sensitive information from inside No 10 was shared with Epstein while Mandelson
  
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• Mandelson should no longer be a peer, says Starmer

  02-02-2026 16:33 via theguardian.com
  Emails from 2009 appear to show the then business secretary shared confidential UK tax plans with Jeffrey EpsteinKeir Starmer has demanded Peter Mandelson resign from the House of Lords and urged the upper chamber to modernise its disciplinary procedures to allow peers to be stripped of their titles.The cabinet secretary, the UK’s most senior civil servant, will also investigate Mandelson’s actions as business secretary when Labour was last in power, after emails to Jeffrey Epstein a
  
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