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🚨 NEW: Labour MPs are being warned that a major rebellion on the welfare reform Bill next week could trigger a General Election or a leadership contest, marking the "start of the end" for Keir Starmer

[@FT]

🚨 BREAKING: Zia Yusuf returns to Reform UK 48 hours after resigning as chairman, calling it a mistake made “out of exhaustion”

He’ll now oversee policy, media, fundraising and Reform’s DOGE unit, as the chair role is split in two

🚨 NEW: Diane Abbott has said Keir Starmer's "islands of strangers" immigration speech was "fundamentally racist"

[@Telegraph]

🚨 BREAKING: Zia Yusuf has resigned as Reform UK's Chairman

"I no longer believe working to get a Reform government elected is a good use of my time, and hereby resign the office."

🚨 NEW: The Government has announced that from the 2026 school year, all children in families on Universal Credit will get free school meals

It will cover schools, colleges, and school-based nurseries, benefit 500,000 children, and lift 100,000 "completely out of poverty"

🚨 UPDATE: Reform UK confirms Sarah Pochin calling for a ban on burqas in the UK is "not party policy"

🚨 NEW: Reform MP Sarah Pochin asks Keir Starmer if he will ban the Burqa in the UK

Starmer: "Can I welcome her to her place, but I'm not going to follow her down that line"

#PMQs

🚨 NEW: Passenger are suffering unfair penalties for minor and genuine mistakes in buying train tickets

The Office of Rail and Road found the fare system is “complex" and that firms must stop taking "disproportionate action"

[@BBCNews]

🚨 BREAKING: The Government has announced £15.6bn in funding for Mayoral Combined Authorities across England to deliver local transport projects

The funding, part of the upcoming Spending Review, will start in 2027/28, with some urgent projects funded sooner

🚨 NEW: The Government's promise to get 0% US tariffs on UK steel after their deal with Trump last month seems to have 'failed'

Tariffs on UK steel and aluminium will remain at 25%, whilst other countries will be hit by 50% tariffs

[@alexwickham]

🚨 NEW: The Government is stepping up its cyber protection amid suspicions Russia cut two fibre optic cables in the Baltic Sea this week

Defence officials say the UK is being hit by attempted cyber attacks every day in Putin's 'hybrid war'

Putin ‘entitled’ to strike UK with newly tested ballistic missile Putin used an unannounced televised address to threaten 'countries that allow their weapons' to target Russia

🚨 NEW: Vladimir Putin claims he is now 'entitled' to use a newly tested hypersonic missile to target the UK and other countries that allow Ukraine to strike Russia with their weapons inews.co.uk/news/world/b...

🚨 NEW: The UK is sending farmers abroad over £516m in foreign aid, whilst the inheritance tax changes are set to raise £520m for the Treasury

[@christiancalgie]

🚨 NEW: Foreign Secretary David Lammy and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot have warned of global 'Putinisation' if Russia prevails in Ukraine

"We will do everything that is necessary to put Ukraine in the best position to achieve a just and lasting peace."

[@theipaper]

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🚨 NEW: The Government estimates an additional 50,000 pensioners will be in relative poverty after housing costs in 2024/25, 25/26 and 26/27 due to the winter fuel payment cuts

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EXCLUSIVE: Chancellor Claimed She Was an Economist on Legal Documents at Time Her Team Say She Was Not On Friday, Guido revealed that Reeves (or her team) had edited her LinkedIn CV. The changes were slipped out without notification: from "Economist" to

🚨 NEW: Chancellor Rachel Reeves claimed she was an ‘economist’ on legal filings made during her time at HBOS, despite her CV being updated to say she wasn't

Via @guidofawkes.bsky.social order-order.com/2024/11/19/e...

🚨 NEW: The BBC is facing criticism after Keir Starmer said the Verify unit backed his inheritance tax estimations on farmers

Shadow Culture Secretary Stuart Andrew: "The taxpayers pay for the BBC to be independent and free from bias, not for them to regurgitate Labour lines."

🚨 NEW: UK inflation has gone up to 2.3% from 1.7% due to higher energy bills

It means the rate is now above the Bank of England target of 2%

🚨 NEW: A new report has found the UK’s addiction to unhealthy food costs £268bn a year

[Guardian]

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has broken a 100-year tradition by becoming the first Prime Minister to refuse membership at a Chequers golf course

[Telegraph]

🚨 NEW: Kemi Badenoch says Keir Starmer is 'cowardly'

"I don’t think he can mansplain anything to me... He is also quite cowardly, because he relies on his back benches to attack me when I can’t respond, because I can only speak when I am questioning him."

[@Telegraph]

🚨 NEW: Health Secretary Wes Streeting has warned Britons against having cheap cosmetic surgery abroad, such as butt lifts, in case they are harmed by substandard care

[Guardian]

🚨 NEW: SNP MSP Emma Roddick called Stephen Flynn a ‘prick’ in a cryptic X post styled as an acrostic poem

[The Scottish Sun]

🚨 NEW: The SNP are to consult on scrapping 40% of jobs at their HQ, with a voluntary redundancy scheme already open

[Daily Record]

Kemi Badenoch's campaign website blocked by cyber cops over 'malicious activity' The website complaining about Labour's bid to close inheritance tax loopholes has been blocked on Government computers, replaced by a message from the National Cyber Security Centre

🚨 NEW: The Tories' Stop The Farm Tax campaign website has been blocked on Government computers because it may be associated with 'malicious activity'

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How Rishi Sunak’s election nightmare unfolded His top campaign adviser told him to wait until autumn to go to the polls. Dominic Cummings said pay off the striking doctors. In an extract from his new book Tim Shipman reveals how the ‘punch-drunk’...

🚨 NEW: Boris Johnson offered to arm wrestle Rishi Sunak to decide who should be Prime Minister after Liz Truss' resignation

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

How Rishi Sunak’s election nightmare unfolded His top campaign adviser told him to wait until autumn to go to the polls. Dominic Cummings said pay off the striking doctors. In an extract from his new book Tim Shipman reveals how the ‘punch-drunk’...

🚨 NEW: An adviser on Rishi Sunak's thoughts on smoking:

"He hates smoking and thinks that anybody who smokes is basically morally degenerate. That’s him at his most narrow, puritanical, Californian"

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How Rishi Sunak’s election nightmare unfolded His top campaign adviser told him to wait until autumn to go to the polls. Dominic Cummings said pay off the striking doctors. In an extract from his new book Tim Shipman reveals how the ‘punch-drunk’...

🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak thought the Northern leg of HS2 was a 'total waste of money'

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

How Rishi Sunak’s election nightmare unfolded His top campaign adviser told him to wait until autumn to go to the polls. Dominic Cummings said pay off the striking doctors. In an extract from his new book Tim Shipman reveals how the ‘punch-drunk’...

🚨 NEW: Dominic Cummings held secret meetings with Rishi Sunak where he was told to leave the ECHR

www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...