Exclusive: London councils to raise council tax by over 5% cap without public vote under major local government reforms inews.co.uk/news/politic...

EXCLUSIVE: Reeves tells loyalist MPs that expensive homes will be taxed in next week’s Budget as she urges them to trumpet higher taxes on wealthier households inews.co.uk/news/politic...

After a tumultuous week in Westminster, Rachel Reeves‘s Budget has now taken on even greater significance inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Fairly sure this featured in the Alien: Earth series…

Is the 12% the Treasury?

Amazing

No shit Virgil van Dijk header should have stood, rules Premier League expert panel www.thetimes.com/article/9d86...

Absolutely gobsmacking this, after the last couple of weeks. Chosen to pick fights with dozens of interest groups. Bizarre.

Scoop: Treasury looking at handing “asset rich, cash poor” deferment from a mansion tax until the home is sold, under current plans It reheats proposals put forward by Ed Balls in 2014 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Latest on the No10 Starmer-Streeting farago... I think we can call it a farago, no? inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Now confirmed. Govt will also offer housebuilders time-limited relief from Infrastructure Levy, which pays for roads, schools etc in bid to get houses built faster. Big changes to building in the capital...

Exclusive: Labour to allow London developers time-limited cut to affordable homes target or risk having to share profits with councils inews.co.uk/news/politic...

How do you deal with all of the UK's past, present and future nuclear waste for the next 250,000 years? You build a hole up to 1km under the Irish Sea in what will be one of the UK's most complex infrastructure projects - the geological disposal facility: t.co/r2KOKRi0dK

The campaign itself seems quite disorientating in retrospect. The most pro-European party was the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher. Papers like The Sun, The Daily Mail & the Telegraph all backed staying in. The young were more Eurosceptic than the old, and women more hostile than men.

UK's Trump deal threatens CO2 shortage - hitting meat, beer and NHS operations inews.co.uk/news/politic...

“We need to stop the foreigners coming in,” says another attendee. What about the Brits, I ask, not disguising my accent. “There are too many Brits, too many Chinese, too many Europeans.” DC sounds...erm...interesting www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

NEW Angela Rayner will this week set out a raft of reforms to end the dominance of major housebuilders and give smaller developers a greater market share to help the Government meet its 1.5m new homes target. Exclusive by @richardvaughan.bsky.social for @theipaper.com inews.co.uk/news/politic...

For years it was something written off as being always "50 years away" but now the UK is among the leaders in developing fusion energy... And it could arrive sooner than you think: inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Not sure that is its most significant (or most brutal) flaw.

💥Labour 2024 intake warn of a 'huge' breakdown in trust between them and No 10 PM due to face a fractious party in PLP meeting on Monday. One MP summarising the mood said there was anger at the Govt plan to “tell the best of our movement to walk into the machine guns". inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Starmer's right-hand man has become a lightning rod for Labour anger, but is he really to blame? @richardvaughan.bsky.social, @whazell.bsky.social and @eleanormia.bsky.social report

"The very fact that Tories are even discussing the idea of changing leader, demonstrates how big a challenge Badenoch has on her hands" 🔎 Analysis by Richard Vaughan, Kitty Donaldson and Arj Singh trib.al/5SCQO25

Andrea Jenkyns is the new Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire. Wonder what her message to the Conservatives will be?

Teaching union tells school to drop investigation into staff member over misconduct allegations. School refuses. Union calls strikes over next three weeks during GCSEs inews.co.uk/news/politic...

With both sides talking of local council coalitions, could a Tory-Reform alliance at the general election be next? 🔎 Big read by @richardvaughan.bsky.social, @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social and @arjsingh.bsky.social

Only 67% of Brits believe climate change is manmade according to YouGov

I needed this. Quality #content.

Has Starmer joined the Times as a weekly columnist? My only priority is making British people better off www.thetimes.com/article/78fe...

On Ladies Day at Aintree, it’s important to pay no attention whatsoever to bad faith actors from right-wing newspapers looking to pour scorn on working-class women enjoying themselves.

Reynolds refuses to rule out that the Online Safety Act is part of the trade talks with the US but insists that the talks are about "goods and services in the main"

Reynolds claims that MPs concerns are "misplaced" if they believe the US trade deal is looking at watering down the Online Safety Act...

Reynolds says there has been nothing relating to the NHS or health in his talks with the US on a potential "economic prosperity deal"

Shadow Business Secretary Andrew Griffith says the Government should be thanking the Conservatives for "getting Brexit done" which has spared the UK thousands of jobs as a result of Trump's tariffs

Reynolds tells MPs that he is launching a 4 week consultation seeking the views from business on any potential UK response to US tariffs

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds says the Govt is "disappointed" by the White House's decision to impose tariffs on UK exports

This, from @chrisgiles.ft.com, is un-fucking-believable... www.ft.com/content/2433...

Insiders point to autumn Budget as 'opportune moment' to hike taxes to raise defence spending @richardvaughan.bsky.social reports

Farage suggests he would secure a US trade deal that would open up the UK to chlorinated chicken

Sewage spills in England last year were longer than ever recorded - just a week before households hit by verage £86 bill rise - total duration of spills up 0.2% to 3,614,428 hours - total number of spills fell 2.9% to 450,398 - Anglian Water biggest relative increase, up 39% - Thames Water up 36%

Further sign the country’s sliding towards anarchy… Forever festive: Christmas food sales are still surging in March www.thetimes.com/article/bec1...

One Russian newspaper today: “America now has more in common with Russia than Washington does with Brussels or with Kyiv.” #ReadingRussia

Trump clearly a fan of the why did the Romans build straight roads joke... (Because they were designed by their rulers)

Happy Friday! www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

This week, someone said of the UK's net zero target: "Why is it 2050 in the first place? No-one knows." It feels like a good time to be resharing this @newscientist.com primer, on what net zero actually means. Few years old but the basics stand👇 www.newscientist.com/question/net...

CBI warns that 'now is not the time to step back' from green growth opportunities @richardvaughan.bsky.social reports

Government accuses of open access rail firms of withholding performance data from passengers at stations in new spat with the sector inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Looking forward to her inevitable podcast and $WOMBAT meme coin pump & dump scandal

I first thought it was Dominic Cumming’s sticking his head through one of those face in the hole boards

Raising benefit limit from two to three children remains an option. But overall cap will stay prompting 'deep disappointment' among backbenchers 🔴 Exclusive from @ChloeChaplain.bsky.social, @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social and @RichardVaughan.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/politic...

They must be gutted Parliament's sitting so they can't demand it be recalled