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Kemi Badenoch appoints Mel Stride, Priti Patel and Robert Jenrick to shadow cabinet

MPs who stood against new leader made shadow chancellor, foreign secretary and justice secretary respectively

The Guardian - UK

Priti Patel named in shadow cabinet as Kemi Badenoch appointments begin

KEMI Badenoch has confirmed two former Tory leadership rivals will be part of her cabinet.

The National (Scotland)

Dame Priti Patel and Mel Stride given top jobs in new Tory frontbench team

Dame Priti and Mr Stride were both early rivals of Kemi Badenoch during the Tory leadership contest.

Evening Standard

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Schools will get extra money to cover national insurance rise – Phillipson

Bridget Phillipson told MPs that schools and colleges will get compensation at a ‘national level’ after the 1.2 percentage point increase in Budget.

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer increases university tuition fees for first time in eight years

University tuition fees have been frozen at £9,250 since 2017 but will go up by 2.7 per cent

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch makes her first frontbench appointment as Tory leader

Laura Trott will serve as shadow education secretary in Ms Badenoch’s frontbench team, it is understood.

The Independent UK

Kemi Badenoch makes her first frontbench appointments as Tory leader

Robert Jenrick was named shadow justice secretary, Mel Stride shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary

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Mel Stride appointed shadow chancellor and Priti Patel shadow foreign secretary as Kemi Badenoch announces team – as it happened

New Conservative leader makes key appointments and says she wants to unite party, with Stride a senior figure on the left and Patel prominent rightwinger

The Guardian - UK

UK politics live: Jenrick gets justice role in Badenoch’s shadow cabinet as Stride and Patel land top jobs

It comes as education secretary Bridget Phillipson announced a rise to university tuition fees

The Independent UK

The law of averages has let everyone down in Tory leadership race

Badenoch and Jenrick appeal to worst instincts of Tory members, though few seem to care about what is clearly a temporary appointment

The Guardian - UK

Trott: Labour delivering greatest hits of government mistakes ahead of Budget

Conservative MP Laura Trott suggested Labour was ‘taking lessons from the worst bits of our record’ in its opening days in power.

The Independent UK

Don’t listen to the Tories – Labour is right to raise taxes

The rumoured rise in national insurance on employers makes sense. As for claims Labour promised not to do that: it didn’t, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

KemiKaze lies low, letting Honest Bob talk himself into losing Tory leadership race

Robert Jenrick’s ‘slightly clearer vision’ for the Conservatives is not wowing anyone while Kemi Badenoch is being kept out of sight to stop her upsetting anyone else

The Guardian - UK

No 10 rejects claims PM received Taylor Swift tickets as ‘thank you’ for security measures – as it happened

Downing St says decisions over protection for the singer were up to Scotland Yard and not the government

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

Labour cronyism row escalates as Tories demand investigation into donor’s appointment to Treasury

Laura Trott urges the prime minister’s ethics adviser to open an investigation

The Guardian - UK

Laura Kenny Q&A: ‘I got a bike with a basket on the front as a retirement present!’

The five-time Olympic gold medal winner – and Guardian columnist for Paris 2024 – answers your questions on how to get back into cycling, her favourite other sports, and when she realised she was the fastest in the world

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting urges voters not to ‘give the matches back to the arsonist to finish the job’ – as it happened

Shadow health secretary says Tory election victory would be ‘nightmare on Downing Street’ and expresses fury junior doctors’ strike is not resolved

Evening Standard

Tories and Labour clash on tax as General Election battles intensify

The Tories are fighting on two fronts, trying to take on Labour on tax while clinging on to voters considering shifting to Reform UK.

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The Independent UK

Sunak tries to calm panicked Tories as Farage demands place on BBC leaders’ debate

Rishi Sunak has been forced to try to get his party’s election campaign back on track as Farage openly taunts the Tories

The Independent UK

Tories claim Labour plans tax raid on home sales in ‘desperate’ bid to change election fortunes

The Tories were branded ‘desperate’ after producing a document claiming Labour has ‘18 secret taxes’ in a desperate bid to close the poll gap

Evening Standard

All 70 countries that have banned child smacking: England urged to join Wales and Scotland

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is pushing for the rest of the UK to do the same

Evening Standard

Rwanda flights will take off in Spring despite parliamentary deadlock, insists minister

There are ‘many definitions of spring’ a minister said when pressed about a timeline for getting planes to Rwanda

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner 'has questions to answer' on home sale controversy being probed by police, says Cabinet minister

Greater Manchester Police are investigating the furore

The Guardian - UK

UK families to benefit by up to £3,000 from changes to child benefit tax

New tax year means threshold for benefit charge linked to higher earnings rises to £60,000

The Guardian - UK

‘You just have to be gutsy’: how Laura Kenny created her golden era

Britain’s most successful female Olympian rode through adversity and her refusal to compromise explains retirement

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