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Cleared for take-off - but Heathrow's third runway still faces many obstacles

Modernising airspace, reform of regulation, and getting planning consent are all formidable hurdles

Evening Standard

M&S boss says Government must ‘act now’ as Budget risks shrinking UK retail

Stuart Machin, writing in the Sunday Times, called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to ‘act now’ and make changes to her tax plans.

Evening Standard

Farmers protest live: Tractors and tanks descend on Westminster as Nigel Farage calls for end to ‘death taxes’

Hundreds have arrived in London to protest over Labour’s plans to introduce inheritance tax on farms worth more than £1m

The Independent UK

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The Guardian view on interest rates: the Bank of England on its own won’t revive growth

Editorial: Base rate cuts may ease borrowing costs but without stronger public spending and targeted tax relief, economic stagnation will persist

The Guardian - UK

Labour must seize the moment to show child poverty matters in push for growth

Scrapping two-child benefit cap is among levers Rachel Reeves could pull – yet chancellor remains silent on ‘shameful’ levels of poverty

The Guardian - UK

Nimbys. Naysayers. Traitors. Children take note, why learn oracy when insults will do?

Keir Starmer’s rhetoric against green campaigners appears to have taken a playground turn

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer urged to resist pressure to permit Rosebank North Sea oilfield

Leading climate group warns of damage to green agenda if giant project goes ahead

The Guardian - UK

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The Farage effect: why Keir Starmer is styling Labour as the ‘disruptors’

From the third runway to Rosebank, the party is rethinking policies, amid the threat of Reform and return of Trump

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s Trump problem is not his EU Brexit reset but cosying up to China

News analysis: Donald Trump’s administration may have a dislike of the EU but it has a pathological hatred of China and already Starmer’s decision to cosy up to Beijing is setting off alarm bells in Washington

The Independent UK

AstraZeneca, Whitehall, and a failed £450m deal for the next generation in vaccines. What went wrong?

When the pharma firm cancelled plans for a major expansion of its Merseyside plant last month, there was no shortage of questions – or blame – over responsibility

The Guardian - UK

Labour MP warns Starmer he is crossing a red line with China embassy deal

Backbencher raises concern over government’s attempts to improve relations with Beijing

The Independent UK

More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones

Exclusive: Analysis suggests development in flood regions result of Labour push for 1.5m new homes in five years

The Guardian - UK

What the papers say – February 8

Here are the stories making headlines this Saturday.

Evening Standard

PM warns ministers can ‘be disruptors or disrupted’ in six-hour Cabinet meeting

The Prime Minister also took aim at ‘right-wing populists’ who offered only ‘grievances not solutions’.

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Heathrow expansion: What a third runway means for noise, pollution and the environment

There would be an additional 4.4m tonnes of CO2 a year from a third runway – the equivalent to 101,862,382,320 miles driven by the average fuel-powered car

The Independent UK

Inside AstraZeneca’s abandoned UK vaccine plant deal as Labour and Tories face questions over £450m collapse

AstraZeneca’s planned vaccine hub for Liverpool is off the table - business editor Karl Matchett and Whitehall editor Kate Devlin question why it fell through

The Independent UK

Voices: Should Rachel Reeves pay for her mishandling of the economy?

COMMENT: Despite her audacious tax raids, an absence of ‘growth, growth, growth’ and, now, the prospect of stagflation, the chancellor cannot be blamed for everything that’s going wrong with Britain’s finances, says Sean O’Grady

Evening Standard

Bakerloo line extension and DLR to Thamesmead: TfL sends 'wish list' to Chancellor Rachel Reeves

TfL says investing in London can create jobs for the rest of the UK

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The Independent UK

Bank of England’s top economist dismisses hopes of big interest rates cuts in further blow to Rachel Reeves

Huw Pill warns that ‘we’re not in a situation where we can declare job done’ on inflation

The National (Scotland)

Question Time sees Labour accused of 'spiteful' oil plot to block independence

A LABOUR minister was dealt devastating blows by the Question Time audience in Glasgow – with one member of the public accusing the party of a…

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Keir Starmer Leads Cabinet Meeting Amid Bank of England’s Grim Economic Forecast

Keir Starmer is holding an extensive cabinet meeting with senior ministers following the Bank of England's sharp revision of the UK's growth forecast.

Evening Standard

Ed Miliband says he abides by collective responsibility on Heathrow expansion

Expanding Heathrow to build a third runway was among a throng of major projects Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the Government would support.

The Independent UK

Bank of England pour doubts over major interest rate cut with fresh inflation prediction: Live

Interest rates were cut from 4.75 per cent to 4.5 per cent on Thursday

Evening Standard

Heathrow third runway fails to get backing from Ed Miliband who says decision on it 'some years off'

A bigger Heathrow is enthusiastically supported by Chancellor Rachel Reeves

The Independent UK

Ed Miliband U-turns on Heathrow expansion after previous opposition

Energy secretary insists expansion can be compatible with government’s net zero commitments

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