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Health secretary admitted to being ‘frustrated’ with approach to governing in interviewSeema Malhotra, a Foreign Office minister, is responding to the urgent question about President Trump’s national security strategy (even though it was addressed to t…
Exclusive: Alison McGovern makes target for end of this parliament, but figures show homelessness has jumpedThe homelessness minister has pledged to end the use of bed and breakfasts as emergency housing, even as new figures show that the country’s hom…
Previously sceptical MPs now want to modernise human rights law to prevent an overreach of the law and losing to the far rightThe sight of David Lammy and the attorney general, Richard Hermer, arriving in Strasbourg together to demand new constraints o…
Labour says appointments needed to balance upper house and chooses former advisers to No 10 and the chancellorKeir Starmer has appointed 25 Labour peers including a number of former senior government and party aides in a move to strengthen his hand in …
Chancellor defends budget but tells MPs there were ‘too many leaks’ and that and much of them were inaccurateUK politics live – latest updatesRachel Reeves has condemned leaks before her make-or-break budget as “unacceptable” as she revealed her income…
Downing Street publishes list including ex-Olympic swimmer Sharron Davies and Iceland supermarket chief Richard Walker Reeves is now being asked about the leak to the Financial Times on 13 November saying that Reeves had dropped plans to raise income t…
National Audit Office says Shabana Mahmood’s plans may have ‘unintended consequences’ on stretched systemShabana Mahmood’s radical plans to overhaul the asylum system could cause “unintended consequences” such as increased homelessness among people see…
Exclusive: Culture secretary announces first national youth strategy in 15 years to help ‘vulnerable’ generationYoung people have faced “violent indifference” from the political establishment for decades, leaving them struggling to navigate a changing …
Public figures sign letter saying plan to reinterpret ECHR for asylum seekers is ‘affront to us all’ and a threat to securityThe actors Michael Palin, Stephen Fry and Joanna Lumley are among 21 well-known figures calling on Keir Starmer to drop plans t…
This blog is now closed, you can read more UK political coverage hereBadenoch says the Tories will review the way the household benefit cap operates.This is a policy introduced by George Osborne when he was chancellor. It imposes a cap on the total amo…