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  12 hours ago

  Sunak’s first speaking engagement earns him PM’s salary in three hours

  The Telegraph - Amy Gibbons

  Rishi Sunak was paid £160,000 for a three-hour speaking engagement last month, nearly as much as he was entitled to in an entire year as prime minister. The former Tory leader has officially entered the highly lucrative political speaking circuit, taking home roughly four times the average UK salary …

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  13 hours ago

  Starmer’s comic turn will end in tears of a clown

  The Telegraph - Madeline Grant

  Representatives of the British Overseas Territories were in Parliament for Questions to the Prime Minister on Wednesday. Once this would have been a statement of great imperial pride, the colonies come to see the mother parliament in action; now it’s probably the case that they’ve been summoned to …

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  4 hours ago

  Brown sounds alarm over Reeves’s ‘worrying’ benefits cuts

  The Telegraph - Dominic Penna

  Gordon Brown has sounded the alarm over Rachel Reeves’s “worrying” benefits cuts, urging her to do more to ease their impact. The former prime minister and chancellor said he was “hopeful” Ms Reeves would use her second Budget in the autumn to prevent an expected rise in poverty. The Chancellor has …

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  17 hours ago

  Politics latest news: Starmer learning a very great deal from Reform on immigration, claims Farage

  The Telegraph

  Nigel Farage claimed Sir Keir Starmer was “learning a very great deal” from Reform UK on immigration. The Reform leader urged the Prime Minister to “go further” and declare a “national security emergency” in the English Channel. His comments, made during Prime Minister’s Questions, came after Sarah …

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  15 hours ago

  Starmer: Firebombs were ‘attack on democracy’

  The Telegraph - Genevieve Holl-Allen

  Sir Keir Starmer has described an arson attack on his family home as an “attack on democracy”. On Wednesday, a 21-year-old man arrested on suspicion of targeting two properties and a car linked to the Prime Minister was continuing to be questioned by counter-terror detectives in connection with the …

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  10 hours ago

  David Lammy accused of refusing to pay £590 taxi fare

  The Telegraph - Henry Samuel

  David Lammy has been accused of refusing to pay a £590 fare for a taxi ride from Italy to France. The driver claimed he collected Mr Lammy and his wife at the town of Forli near Bologna after they had accompanied the King and Queen on a three-day state visit to Italy in April. The Foreign Secretary …