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Keir Starmer faces rebellion as 53 Labour MPs abstain over winter fuel and one votes with Tories – as it happened

Conservative motion to block winter fuel payment cut defeated but 53 Labour MPs abstain and one, Jon Trickett, votes with the Tories

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves urged by Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham to consider softening cuts to winter fuel payments

His appeal came ahead of a crunch Commons vote on the controversial reform

Evening Standard

Tuesday briefing: Will a vote on Labour’s plan to cut the winter fuel payment lead to backbench rebellion?

In today’s newsletter: The new government’s plan to restrict a winter welfare payment to the elderly has emerged as a key issue just months in their reign

The Guardian - UK

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Beaten, marooned, demoralised – and yet still the right clings to Thatcher. I’ve seen them: they’re so lost

I went to a conference of rightwing pollsters and party grandees. It seems their only way forward is to look back, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Blinken In UK As Allies Seek Way Forward On Ukraine, Mideast

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets the new UK government on Tuesday, with the close allies expected to share their resolve on Ukraine and paper over differences on Gaza.

International Business Times

When is the Winter Fuel Payment vote and how can you watch it?

ON Tuesday, Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Keir Starmer will put their cut to the Winter Fuel Payment to a vote ...

The National (Scotland)

James Cleverly favourite to top MPs’ poll as Tory leadership contest takes surprise twist

Exclusive: Opponents of the former home secretary have briefed that they believe he has taken the lead among Tory MPs as polling shows he wins the popularity vote with the public

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Future pay deals will be shaped by tough decisions, Starmer to tell TUC

PM expected to make clear in key Brighton speech that he will not risk economic stability ‘under any circumstances’

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer branded 'son of Thatcher' over trade union pay warning

KEIR Starmer will warn trade unionists against pushing for more pay bumps as he says his Government “will not risk its mandate for economic…

The National (Scotland)

Russia’s shadow oil fleet and Gaza ceasefire plan to top US-UK talks in London

Antony Blinken to meet David Lammy in precursor to Joe Biden’s talks with Keir Starmer in Washington

The Guardian - UK

Starmer flies to US for talks with Biden, but will miss Harris and Trump

Campaign schedules mean PM will not meet presidential candidates during brief surprise visit to Washington

The Guardian - UK

Treasury has tried to push previous chancellors to means-test winter fuel allowance

Policy ‘always shot down immediately’ by Tories but was part of prepared series of options presented to Rachel Reeves, insiders say

The Guardian - UK

Labour refuses to publish impact assessment of winter fuel payment cuts until after MPs have voted

Exclusive: Energy minister Miatta Fahnbulleh confirmed her department has assessed the impact the policy change will have on pensioners living in fuel poverty, but said only that it will be published ‘in due course’

The Independent UK

Committee ambitions of Labour’s new intake raise hackles among veteran MPs

Some experienced members of party in the Commons voice concerns colleagues may have overstepped the mark

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

National Crime Agency 'on its knees', report warns with 'Britain's FBI' facing brain drain

The agency is at the heart of Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to ‘smash the gangs’ bringing people across the English Channel in small boats

The Guardian - UK

This winter fuel fiasco will save Labour £1.3bn this year. But it will cost Starmer more

The PM’s poor approval rating suggests a tricky road ahead, and the Treasury’s macho posturing won’t help anyone, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

The Independent UK

Winter fuel payment cuts will aid rise of far right and Farage, TUC president warns Starmer

Exclusive: TUC president Matt Wrack tells The Independent the rise of Nigel Farage and summer riots should be ‘a wake up call’ for Keir Starmer to ‘bring hope not austerity’

The Independent UK

Voices: Is the UK right to suspend arms sales to Israel? Join The Independent Debate

While some have blasted Sir Keir Starmer’s move as ‘shameful’, others have dubbed it ‘brave’. Now we want to know if you think the suspension goes too far – or not far enough

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The National (Scotland)

Boos of God Save the King at Ireland-England game criticised by Irish deputy PM

IRELAND'S deputy premier has criticised the booing of God Save the King ahead of Saturday's England-Republic of Ireland game in Dublin ...

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s warmth is welcome – but Ireland’s appetite for shifting to British whims has waned

Brexit poisoned the well of UK-Ireland relations. But the Irish consciousness is not as consumed by Britain as it once was, says history professor Diarmaid Ferriter

The Independent UK

Starmer right to block arms sales to Israel, says Jewish peer

In a significant intervention, senior peer and barrister Lord Carlile says the prime minister’s controversial decision to suspend arms exports licences is courageous and correct under the rule of law

Evening Standard

Keir Starmer locked in stand-off with union barons demanding U-turn on winter fuel payment cuts

Unite general secretary Sharon Graham directly told the PM that he should reverse the controversial policy

Al Jazeera

Grenfell Tower survivors: ‘The system isn’t broken, it was built this way’

Survivors and family members say they didn’t need to wait seven years to be told what they already knew.

The Guardian - UK

Rachel Reeves tells Labour MPs she is ‘not immune’ to concerns over winter fuel allowance plans – as it happened

Chancellor tells meeting of parliamentary Labour party there will be more difficult decisions to come

The Independent UK

Cut to winter fuel payment could kill 4,000 people, Labour’s own research suggests

Analysis published by Labour in 2017 said plans to means test winter fuel payments would be the ‘single biggest attack on pensioners in a generation’

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