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With Labour on the brink of power, what will the party's first priorities be in government?
The Labour Party is set for a landslide majority if the exit poll is right. But once inside No 10, what will its first priorities be?
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The TelegraphStarmer has already made three fatal mistakes
My teenage son, who cast the first vote of his life last week (for Labour), surprised me yesterday by revealing that he’d actually been paying attention to political developments in the last few days. “I think Starmer is doing a pretty good job,” he told me, making me immediately nervous lest he decides to copy his old man’s mistakes and pursue a political career.
- PA Media: UK News
Nigel Farage hits out at ‘little man’ John Bercow during first Commons speech
Former speaker Mr Bercow oversaw proceedings in the Commons as MPs debated Brexit.
- The Telegraph
The BBC’s ‘diverse’ Battle of Hastings drama is a farcical distortion of our history
Yes, it’s happened again. In December last year, a non-white actor played Isaac Newton in Doctor Who. Then, in April this year, it was announced that non-white actors had been cast to play Tudor courtiers in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. And now, non-white actors have been cast to play Anglo-Saxon noblemen in King and Conqueror, a drama series about the Norman conquest of 1066. And all these shows are on the BBC.
- Manchester Evening News
ITV Good Morning Britain viewers issue same complaint minutes into show
ITV Good Morning Britain fans asked 'is it appropriate' as Ed Balls returned to host alongside Susanna Reid
- The Telegraph
Anneliese Dodds isn’t just naive. Her weakness is a danger to women
Days after the major Cabinet appointments were announced, Anneliese Dodds – a one-time shadow chancellor – has been given the brief that no sane politician wants. Now in post as minister for women and equalities, Dodds will be expected to do the impossible: uphold Labour’s manifesto commitment to protect women’s rights to single-sex spaces, while apparently liberalising the Gender Recognition Act (GRA), which allows people to change gender legally.
- The Daily Beast
Desperate Russia’s Wild Lies Leave Soldiers Waving Red Underpants
Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine continues to claim lives, as the Kremlin’s military leadership resorts to increasingly brutal tactics against civilians—including a ghastly attack on a children's hospital in Kyiv and other sites across Ukraine. In their comments on state television, prominent propagandists often reiterate that Moscow’s campaign of senseless brutality is designed to prompt Ukrainians to overthrow their government. Russian talking heads also resort to nuclear threats, which is
- HuffPost
Maggie Haberman Says 'This Is Exactly What Trump's Advisers Had Been Concerned About'
It’s turned it into “a bigger deal,” said the New York Times reporter.
- Manchester Evening News
Labour's plans for minimum wage affecting hundreds of thousands of workers
The party has promised to introduce new laws within 100 days
- Glasgow Times
Reform UK makes admission over 'invisible' candidates at election in Glasgow
Thousands of people in Glasgow voted for election candidates who existed in name only.
- The Independent
Full list of 175 Tory MPs that lost their jobs in election bloodbath
Penny Mordaunt, Jacob Rees-Mogg and former prime minister Liz Truss were among the Tory big beasts who lost their seats
- Sky News
Jess Phillips made minister following frontbench resignation over Middle East
Jess Phillips has been appointed to the Labour government as a minister, focusing on tackling violence against women and girls and domestic violence. Ms Phillips had the role of shadow domestic violence and safeguarding minister from 2020 to 2023 under Sir Keir Starmer but resigned over the party's stance on the Middle East conflict in November. This defied the Labour whip, and so Ms Phillips had to step aside.
- The Telegraph
‘Living under Labour will cost me millions – it’s unbelievably depressing’
Wealthy taxpayers are quitting the country “by the plane-load” amid fears Labour is plotting to turn the screws on the rich.
- Sky News
Ex-army chief issues WW3 warning and brands 'new axis powers' more dangerous than the Nazis
A former army chief has warned members of NATO the world is facing "as dangerous a moment as any time that we've had since 1945" as he called on members to invest more into their arms. General Sir Patrick Sanders, who served as chief of the general staff until last month, told The Times that Russia, China and Iran were the "new axis powers", and a third world war could break out within the next five years if action was not taken. Arguing the countries posed even more of a threat than the Nazis in 1939, he said: "They are more interdependent and more aligned than the original axis powers were."
- HuffPost
Trump Isn't Being Quiet. But For Once, Nobody's Paying Attention To Him.
And he probably hates it.
- The Independent
Ukraine war: Why China is conducting military exercises in Belarus
Belarus has played a vital role in Russia’s war against Ukraine
- BuzzFeed
21 Gen Z'ers Are Confessing Who They're Supporting For President, And It's Definitely Not What I Had Predicted
"I’m sick of all these people (mostly white men) in offices who are far older than my boomer parents making decisions for me that I’ll see into my retirement."
- Associated Press
Tehran police close Turkish Airlines office after its employees defy Iran's headscarf law
Police in Iran shut down the Turkish Airlines office in the capital of Tehran, Iranian media reported Tuesday, after female employees there apparently refused to wear the mandatory headscarf, or hijab, in an act of defiance of the country’s law. The semi-official Tasnim news agency said police officers went to the Turkish Airlines office in Tehran on Monday to issue what is called a first warning over the “non-observance of hijab” by the company's employees.
- Business Insider
Videos show what hit a Ukrainian children's hospital, and Russia is 'gaslighting,' war and weapons experts say
Russia says it's not responsible for the attack on the children's hospital, but experts are challenging its claims about what happened.
- The Telegraph
Thornberry ‘surprised’ by Starmer Cabinet snub
Emily Thornberry has said she is “sorry and surprised” to have been snubbed after being left out of Sir Keir Starmer’s Cabinet.
- The Telegraph
Reeves paves way for tax rises as she orders review of public finances
Rachel Reeves ordered a review by Treasury officials that could pave the way for autumn tax rises as she warned that Britain is facing the worst public finances since the Second World War.