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The Latest Breaking News from Kenneth Clarke

From tax cuts to breaking the economy: five UK budgets that made a difference

As Rachel Reeves prepares to unveil her measures, we look at how five of her predecessors broke the mould

The Guardian - UK

Revealed: Rachel Reeves’s huge £47bn compensation bill for historical injustice, cover-up and negligence

Exclusive: Attempts by the chancellor to get a grip on Britain’s finances have been made more difficult by an outstanding bill of £47bn for past mistakes by the British state

The Independent UK

Thursday briefing: Why the Conservatives’ identity crisis is their biggest challenge

In today’s newsletter: As they try to find Rishi Sunak’s successor, the Tories need to decide what they stand for

The Guardian - UK

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A respectful question for Labour: do you have any real change?

The new government has promised things will be different: but when it comes to spending, we seem stuck on old Tory policies

The Guardian - UK

Thatcher was right: Tory moderates have no power over the party’s ruthless rightwing extremists

The civilising influence of the ‘wets’ is a myth. The party’s angriest elements always end up back in the driving seat, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

After Brexit, desperate Tories needed a new crusade. They think dumping ‘human rights’ could be it

Rightwingers hope a nasty debate about the European convention on human rights will revive nativist passions, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of people like me are locked up with no fixed release date all because of New Labour’s political arms race

Nearly 3,000 of us are still in jail because of the infamous ‘imprisonment for public protection’ sentence, says author Terence Smith

The Guardian - UK

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Suella Braverman is shortest-serving home secretary at 43 days

Which politicians trail Braverman as shortest-serving home secretaries in modern times?

The Guardian - UK

Dr John Marks obituary

Chair of the British Medical Association who educated the public about HIV infection while tackling its social stigma

The Guardian - UK

Scottish man challenged relative to 'deadly graveyard duel' after funeral feud

Angus, 60, told his rival to bring a weapon for the old-fashioned duel at the historic Greyfriars cemetery in Perth. He told Mr Clarke to get tooled up for the face-off during a menacing phone call, Perth Sheriff Court was told.

Edinburgh Live

Angry Scot challenged relative to 'deadly duel' and said 'only one of us will make it out alive'

Randolph Angus, 60, demanded family member Kenneth Clarke turn up to fight to the death after a feud escalated during a funeral in Perth earlier this year.

Daily Record

Ken Clarke: ‘The idea that tax cuts will automatically produce growth is nonsense’

The veteran Tory, who stood three times to lead his party, on the cost of living crisis, today’s political culture and the best PM we never had

The Guardian - UK

Labour surges as Tory fears grow over Truss’s tax cut agenda

Likely PM’s policies will mean ‘big trouble’, say critics, as Starmer’s energy price initiative boosts him in polls

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak says government can’t stop inflation as clamour grows to help poorest

Chancellor offers tax breaks to business, but shuns calls for new help for families

The Independent UK

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