New: Andy Burnham will leave the triple lock untouched and consider a tax cut for pensioners paying income tax because of the freeze on tax thresholds, known as “fiscal drag”.
In an exclusive interview with The i Paper, Burnham says ripping up Labour's manifesto commitment would be 'very damaging' - despite calls for it to be ditched
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Morgan McSweeney is back advising the Prime Minister – four months after he resigned over his role in the Mandelson scandal
🔴 Exclusive from @cazjwheeler & Richard Vaughan
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NEW: Labour MPs should “skip a generation” and install Al Carns as prime minister, supporters of the former defence minister told The i Paper.
But fair to say the admiration is not universal...
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Picking up some Cabinet unease Sir Keir Starmer may pick Luke Pollard as the new Defence Secretary.
This is the damning verdict on Pollard earlier from Admiral Lord West in an exclusive interview with The i Paper:
🪖 ‘The Treasury is a danger to national security': The defence row tearing Cabinet apart - tonight’s big read on why John Healey really resigned and the fury at Rachel Reeves’s department - by @janemerrick23 and @theipaper’s political team inews.co.uk/news/politics/tr…
🚨Wild scoop from @Richard_AHolmes for @theipaper. His investigation lifts the lid on a Russian drone tech boss’s unhindered travel to Disneyland and across Europe - as his software is used to train Putin’s next generation of killer drone pilots inews.co.uk/news/pictured-ru…
EXC: Andy Burnham expected to challenge Sir Keir Starmer ‘within a fortnight’ Cabinet ministers said, as they predict him to win in Makerfield 🧵
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New: Diplomats and civil servants were told to delete emails and Whatsapps discussing the King’s concerns about Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK, The i Paper understands.
Documents released in the so-called Mandelson files show that Government officials ordered the deletion of the messages as they scrambled to contain the fallout from the US President’s bust-up with Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. With @janemerrick23
Diplomats and civil servants were told to delete emails and Whatsapps discussing the King’s concerns about Donald Trump’s state visit to the UK
🔴 Exclusive from @janemerrick23 & @cazjwheeler
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Exclusive | One source told The i Paper that Charles was “jittery” about the visit, while another put it more starkly: the King “did not want to do it.”
🔴 @cazjwheeler, @JaneMerrick23 and @SinghArj report: trib.al/CQt1VuK
The Putin regime is running scared of my old colleagues at @theipaper and particularly @Richard_AHolmes, who has been banned from entering Russia in retribution for his reporting
In today’s column I’ve taken a look at how the government could get welfare reform through next year after *those* Pat McFadden comments
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Keir Starmer 'destroyed' his own authority by U-turning on benefit cuts - his own welfare minister says in secret texts to Mandelson
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