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Nigel Farage launching new website to help people denied accounts by banks

The ex-Ukip leader has been hailed as a consumer champion after vowing to create a guide on how to flood banks with data requests

The Guardian - UK

Will ghosts of Tory past return to help Rishi Sunak re-election?

Former PMs and minister-turned-podcaster could get the vote out

Evening Standard

Kwarteng went ahead with mini-budget despite OBR warning, FOI reveals

Chancellor’s refusal to publish forecast contributed to stock market jitters and run on pound

The Guardian - UK

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Special advisers got £2.9m in severance payments amid political upheaval

Ministers were also paid more than £400,000 in severance packages.

The Independent UK

Tory MPs pocket £450k in severance payments after political chaos of 2022

TORY MPs scooped hundreds of thousands of pounds in severance payments thanks to the year of political turmoil they caused ...

The National (Scotland)

Ministers given £455,000 in severance payments after year of political turmoil

Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng and Michael Gove are among the senior figures who accepted severance payments after leaving office.

The Independent UK

Political turmoil in 2022 cost UK taxpayer £3m in severance fees

Pressure to hand back payments grows as documents reveal administrative costs of huge turnover of ministers and advisers

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Boris Johnson and Liz Truss received huge payouts after resigning as Prime Minister

Liz Truss and Boris Johnson both received more than £18,000 each in compensation when they were forced to quit as Prime Minister.

Evening Standard

Top civil servant Sir Tom Scholar’s sacking cost Treasury £457,000

Treasury accounts show numerous ministers also received severance payments amid last year’s spate of resignations.

The Independent UK

Why the pound has shot up while UK economy is struggling – expert Q&A

When Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-cutting mini-budget triggered a UK debt crisis in autumn 2022, the pound plummeted to almost parity with the US dollar. In 2023 the UK has endured weak growth, falling productivity and high inflation, yet the pound has been the strongest performing currency among the…

The Conversation

Anas Sarwar makes ridiculous excuse for Labour's two-child benefit cap U-turn

ANAS Sarwar has made a ridiculous excuse for Labour’s decision not to scrap the two-child benefit cap.

The National (Scotland)

Campaign group concerned about wind farms loses fight with ministers

Suffolk Energy Action Solutions challenged a 2022 decision by then Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng relating to two winds farms off Suffolk.

The Independent UK

Unions hail ‘significant’ victory after agency worker fight with Tory government

Unions have won a “significant” victory after challenging law changes they said let agencies supply employers with workers to fill in for…

The National (Scotland)

High court quashes rules letting agency workers cover for UK strikers

Unions hail verdict that brands Kwasi Kwarteng’s approach ‘so unfair’ as to be ‘unlawful and irrational’

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If Threads is the final nail in Twitter’s coffin, where will the journalists and politicos go?

Elon Musk is wrecking his platform, but it has invented a medium for catchy soundbites that is too invaluable to lose

The Independent UK

Labour tells Jeremy Hunt his advisers must not undermine Bank of England

Exclusive: Members of Mr Hunt’s Economic Advisory Council said the Bank had ‘tried to be too cute’ by not being clear enough on the need for interest rates hikes

Daily Record

SNP MP's request for disastrous Tory mini-budget forecast to be released is upheld

Exclusive: Stuart McDonald's request for the economic watchdog to share the draft forecast it sent to Kwasi Kwarteng ahead of his mini-budget was upheld.

The National (Scotland)

Tory minister red-faced as NO ONE in Question Time audience backs Rwanda policy

A TORY minister struggled to answer why not one member of the audience on the BBC’s Question Time supported the policy of deporting people to…

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The Guardian - UK

Legal challenge against Sizewell C nuclear power plant rejected

High court judge rules in favour of government decision to let EDF build plant on the Suffolk coast

The Guardian - UK

Sunak had a chance to rise above Johnson’s toxic legacy – and he blew it

A politician who came to office promising integrity and accountability has shown the stupidest kind of cowardice, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK

Minette Batters: ‘We need a success story for wild spaces but also for farmers and food’

Sharing a cheeseboard, the farmers’ leader tells of frustrating tussles with ministers … and why she has decided to stand down as president of the NFU

Daily Mirror

Kwasi Kwarteng pockets £27,000 for 30-minute speech to Swiss bankers

Just months after he and Liz Truss tanked the UK economy with their kamikaze mini-budget, Mr Kwarteng has started raking in cash from public speaking

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson and ‘entitled’ Tory Etonians have damaged Britain, admits former Eton master: ‘I failed’

Educator says school failed to remove ‘sense of privilege’ from star pupils

The National (Scotland)

Ex-Eton headmaster savages 'entitlement' of former pupils Johnson and Rees-Mogg

A FORMER Eton headmaster has accused former pupils of the famous elite private school of damaging the “very fabric” of the country.

The National (Scotland)

What did Ian Blackford REALLY think of the Tory prime ministers he faced?

IAN Blackford should really only have faced one or potentially two prime ministers in his five and half years as SNP Westminster leader.

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