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EXC: Operation stop Farage: Polanski would work with Labour to keep Reform out of No 10 - if Starmer is ousted inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Exc: Rail workers should be given free flu jabs to help avert Christmas cancellations and delays, union says inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Brexit EXC: 🎓UK on course to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme from January 2027 = EU extends key deadline for universities to participate = Rising hopes on both sides of a deal by Christmas, crunch talks Monday t.co/xWPXRZ7vsC

Exc: UK stance on an under-30s visa deal with the EU boosted by a major new report which backs a 44k cap on numbers inews.co.uk/news/politic...

French sources say Starmer, Macron, Merz and Zelensky agreed a plan to bring the US back onside in Ukraine peace talks, amid concerns over Trump’s recent comments

UK 'entirely unprepared for war' in face of Putin's latest threats, triggering calls for even higher defence spending inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Exc: Treasury to host briefing to placate Labour MPs on 'pub tax' as some call for a climbdown from Rachel Reeves inews.co.uk/news/politic...

🚨UK-EU weapons fund talks collapse in blow to Brexit reset and economy inews.co.uk/news/politic...

EXC Brexit reset negotiations: 🧑‍🎓EU considers softening uni fees demand to get youth mobility deal over the line 🪖UK counter-offer on Safe rearmament proposes pay-per-project rather than pay billions up front inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Why Britons won't feel better off under Labour inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Rachel Reeves has privately indicated she will not target pension tax relief rates in next week’s Budget inews.co.uk/news/politic...

🚨Brexit reset defence deal unravelling as UK threatens to quit talks Defence Sec John Healey tells me Britain will not join EU weapons fund at "any price" inews.co.uk/news/politic...

🚨NEW Children face deportation under Mahmood's migration crackdown Home Office to start targeting families with under-18s for removal if their asylum claims fail. Reminder: Farage's Reform rowed back on plans to deport children in August inews.co.uk/news/politic...

'F**cking deranged': How No10's bid to squash Streeting for leader backfired Cabinet ministers, Government and party insiders, and MPs on Labour's new civil war inews.co.uk/news/politic...

🇬🇧🇪🇺 UK ready to quit crucial Brexit reset defence deal due to EU demanding billions But Brussels thinks London will pay as British defence firms have bids for cash ready to go this month inews.co.uk/news/politic...

BREAKING Reeves appears to admit she'll break tax pledge from manifesto in Budget inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Exc: Farage's 'gold plated' pension reform plan faces firefighters strike threat inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Councils spending thousands cleaning 'flag wars' graffiti exc by @eleanormia.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/council...

Rachel Reeves set to argue manifesto-busting tax rises may be needed to save austerity-hit public services or growth and cost of living will suffer inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Barracks plan to house asylum seekers ‘has been rejected before’ inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Home Office could house migrants in 'Portakabins' in bid to close asylum hotels inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Caerphilly analysis: Labour's by-election humbling signals doom - but Farage has failed too inews.co.uk/news/politic...

EXC: UK wants to protect Brexit freedoms on gene editing and animal welfare in EU food deal negotiations, official letter shows inews.co.uk/news/politic...

‘Voters will go to Reform’: Labour anger as Starmer pushes on with digital ID - big read as MPs return to Parliament inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Big read: Spectre of Farage pushes Tories to the right inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Asylum hotel closures could be be fast-tracked to help Reeves balance books in Budget, Treasury source indicates inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Support us or make Farage PM, Starmer tells anti-Reform voters Labour campaigners told to “squeeze” moderate voters who fear Farage as PM inews.co.uk/news/politic...

EXC Revealed: Lobbying firm's 'cash-for-access' to PM's speech briefing Anacta, run by the husband of Labour's general secretary, counts an Israeli-owned arms manufacturer among its clients inews.co.uk/news/politic...

EXC 🇬🇧🇪🇺 Crunch negotiations on Erasmus+ EU wants a quick deal by end of next month so student exchanges can start in 2027 inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Farage's plan to deport legal migrants 'would split families' inews.co.uk/news/politic...

EXC: Several Labour MPs tell whips they have no confidence in Keir Starmer inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Big read on new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood: Labour's Thatcher-lite 'street-fighter' tasked with saving Keir Starmer inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Mahmood looking at changes/reforms to UN Refugee Convention. Great scoop from @arjsingh.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/politic...

EXC: Home Secretary set to target global refugee laws in bid to end small boat crossings Shabana Mahmood exploring if changes are needed on the Refugee Convention to make deportation easier Comes amid reports Trump wants to redefine asylum at the UN inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Starmer moves to stop damaging splits undermining his leadership as Rayner quits inews.co.uk/news/politic...

🇬🇧🇪🇺EU could accept a cap of around 50k under-30s visas on new youth mobility scheme with the UK, senior source says This would be roughly in line with the UK’s scheme with Australia - EU initially wanted no cap inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Starmer seizes grip of Budget after Reeves ‘mistakes’ hit Labour in polls inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Cooper must get a grip of small boats or stand aside, Labour insiders say inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Icymi Foie gras and gene editing sticking points of Brexit reset inews.co.uk/news/politic...

UK considering push for temporary exemption from post-Brexit EU carbon tax, amid threat to bills and jobs t.co/JG4lExYlcs

UK considering push for temporary exemption from post-Brexit EU carbon tax, amid threat to bills and jobs inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Deals with the Taliban and Iran’s Ayatollah central to Farage's asylum plan inews.co.uk/news/politic...

New post-Brexit border controls that will require any Britons aged 12 and over to input photographs and fingerprints could spark “chaos” for holidaymakers travelling to the EU from October, insiders warn t.co/Ds6VZ79Tcl

EXC: RAF set to drop aid into Gaza as Starmer calls starvation 'indefensible' UK working with allies on a plan, say diplomatic sources inews.co.uk/news/politic...

🇬🇧🇪🇺EXC EU still pushing for extensive youth mobility scheme in Brexit reset Secret negotiating mandate believed by UK officials to be similar to last year’s draft, demanding four year visas and free NHS inews.co.uk/news/politic...

🇬🇧🇪🇺Exc w/@HugoGye UK sets end of year deadline to negotiate EU weapons fund access, and will press sceptical France on it during Macron’s visit inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Exc: Home Office wrongly classed hundreds of child asylum seekers as adults inews.co.uk/news/politic...

NEW 50,000 children will be lifted out of poverty due to welfare reform rebellion and PIP U-turn - official figures But plans save none of the £5bn envisaged inews.co.uk/news/politic...