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One point worth noting on this morning's sentencing story. Shabana Mahmood has written to the Sentencing Council urging them to change course. But a government source confirms this morning she cannot order them to do so (1/2)

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Breaking: Oliver Ryan has been suspended from the Labour Party www.bbc.com/news/article...

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NEW: Parliament’s national security strategy committee has written to Keir Starmer complaining that Jonathan Powell hasn’t agreed to speak to them. They have contacted the National Security Adviser 3 times to ask for a session. Every previous NSA has given evidence to them

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NEW: The government is preparing to put welfare reform at the centre of its economic agenda. Rachel Reeves wants to end the “perverse incentives” in the system, with more people who receive sickness benefits set to be told to seek work

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This is a lovely short piece about a type and business model journalism that is being lost and drifting off into the night. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/w...

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Breaking: Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury has pleaded guilty at Chester Magistrates' Court to assault by beating after punching a man in Frodsham, Cheshire in October

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My analysis of what trouble in the markets could mean for Labour’s economic plans www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Both the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats are now calling for Rachel Reeves to cancel her trip to China as the pound falls and government borrowing costs rise www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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NEW: Keir Starmer just announced that Tulip Siddiq has referred herself to the independent adviser on ministerial standards, Laurie Magnus. He advises the PM on whether ministers have broken ethics rules www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

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Bit embarrassed to do this but... my phone was stolen out my hand by someone on a bike this AM. They've managed to change the email for my Apple ID (1/2)

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NEW: A hearing at the Royal Courts of Justice at 2pm today will consider whether the alleged Chinese agent "H6" should remain anonymous

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EXCL: Civil servants have been told they will have to "do things differently" by the new cabinet secretary Chris Wormald on his first day in the job www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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One of the most striking themes in Keir Starmer’s speech today — his frustration with Whitehall For weeks I’ve been asking Labour people what they make of their time in government and one sentiment comes up again and again: “Dominic Cummings was right” www.bbc.com/news/article...

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NEW: The prime minister has appointed Chris Wormald as the new cabinet secretary and head of the civil service One of the most experienced senior civil servants - 8 years running the health department (quite a lot happened) after 4 running education www.gov.uk/government/n...

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This mini-reshuffle (as a result of Louise Haigh’s resignation last week) means that Sarah Sackman is the first of the 2024 intake to make it to minister of state. The others are parliamentary under-secretaries, which in itself is controversial in some quarters

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Wherever this legislation goes now, this is a huge moment in British social policy — and the House of Commons has made a big moral judgment www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c9...

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Cabinet ministers among the 147 Labour MPs who voted against assisted dying: - Anneliese Dodds - Darren Jones - David Lammy - Shabana Mahmood - Bridget Phillipson - Angela Rayner - Jonathan Reynolds - Wes Streeting

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Cabinet ministers among the 147 Labour MPs who voted against assisted dying: - Anneliese Dodds - Darren Jones - David Lammy - Shabana Mahmood - Bridget Phillipson - Angela Rayner - Jonathan Reynolds - Wes Streeting

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NEW: Heidi Alexander is appointed transport secretary. She's a former deputy mayor of London for transport

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Analysis of Louise Haigh's rapid - and to many in Labour, surprising - resignation, by Chris Mason and me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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NEW: Louise Haigh has resigned as transport secretary

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How service charges in flats spiralled out of control www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Some breaking news this morning: The former deputy prime minister John Prescott has died aged 86, his family have announced. We’ll be talking about his life and career with guests from the New Labour era on @BBCr4today @BBCBreakfast @bbc5live www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

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Today's #newscast with me, Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O'Connell www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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With the latest expansion of Bluesky more and more people are looking for reliable news - here is a starter pack of #BBCjournos - journalists and freelancers who make excellent #BBC content and worth checking out go.bsky.app/8gWbLmD

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As per FT and Guardian, Sue Gray will not become the prime minister’s envoy to the nations and regions after all. A Downing Street source told the BBC: “We think she has made the right decision”

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