NEW: Strategic Defence Review: cyber experts to be deployed on battlefield alongside the regular armed forces as part of a major modernisation of the British military to prepare for drone warfare, by me @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/politics/ar…

▫ Prime Minister failing to defend nation, claims UK Defence Secretary ▫‘The Treasury is a danger to national security’: The defence row tearing Cabinet apart ▫@janemerrick23 @cazjwheeler @kitty_donaldson @RichardVaughan1 ▫tinyurl.com/26s2ju2k @theipaper #frontpagestoday #UK 🇬🇧

🪖 ‘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…

John Healey couldn't accept the disconnect between what Starmer was telling the public about the threat of Russia & how much the PM was prepared to spend on defence. Inside his resignation by me @cazjwheeler @kitty_donaldson & Richard Vaughan @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/politics/tr…

NEW: Tech bosses behind Russian drone simulators used to train school children and military units have travelled freely across Europe. As part of Kremlin military visits to schools, children are being given hands-on drone pilot training using their software. But developers appear to face few restrictions on international travel - visiting Venice, New York, and Disneyland Paris since the start of the war. The revelations raise serious questions about the ability of Western authorities to tackle Russian actors, as Moscow's aggression against Europe intensifies. 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 🧵 inews.co.uk/news/politics/an…

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 Read more: inews.co.uk/news/politics/de…

NHS staff have been told to check their stocks of PPE and look out for symptoms in patients recently returned from DRC and Uganda in NHS-wide urgent public health alert in response to the #Ebola outbreak, by me in @theipaper: inews.co.uk/news/politics/gp…

🚨Great scoop here on the Mandelson files from @cazjwheeler and @janemerrick23! (for @theipaper)

New: The King raised serious concerns about Donald Trump’s state visit to the U in the wake of the US President’s infamous bust-up with Volodymyr Zelensky, The i Paper understands. The monarch’s private reservations over the visit left officials scrambling, fearful that a royal snub of President Trump could detonate into a full-blown diplomatic crisis. Multiple senior Whitehall sources have told this newspaper that the King was reticent about hosting Trump at this time because of his treatment of Zelensky. One source said Charles was “jittery” about it, while another put it more starkly: the King “did not want to do it.” A flurry of emails and texts exchanged between Peter Mandelson, then US ambassador, and officials in March 2025 reveal a behind-the-scenes diplomatic scramble to alleviate Charles’s concerns over the visit. In one message, the peer thanks the most senior civil servant in Foreign Office for his “cool handling of the last 48 hours on the SV [State Visit]”, and in another exchange five days later Mandelson discusses how he is awaiting an update following the weekly audience between the King and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. The King’s concerns are understood to be included in a number of heavily redacted documents released in the so-called Mandelson files. W/ @janemerrick23 @singharj liveapp.inews.co.uk/category…

NEW: The King raised concerns about Trump's state visit to the UK going ahead after the president's showdown with Zelensky in the Oval Office - exc story by @cazjwheeler @singharj and me @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/politics/re…

Cabinet ministers turn on each other over WhatsApps with Peter Mandelson - by @cazjwheeler and others @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/politics/st…

The UK is running out of time to prepare for war. And insiders are in despair 🔴 Exclusive from @janemerrick23 ➡️ Read more: trib.al/SXnFVPt

Starmer cut his Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds out of trade talks between the UK and US after Peter Mandelson complained about leaks to the media, it has emerged in the docs - follow more on @theipaper liveblog inews.co.uk/news/politics/uk…

🚨EXC: Burnham as PM would not beat Farage at next general election, new exclusive poll shows inews.co.uk/news/politics/bu…

As a social media ban for under-16s nears, how Cabinet ministers feared a crackdown would upset Trump, by me and @singharj @theipaper inews.co.uk/news/politics/ca…

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🎉 Absolutely thrilled that @theipaper's Politics Unwrapped newsletter, authored by me and edited by @FaithLRidler, has been nominated for two awards at the Publisher Newsletter Awards We are up for Best Politics Newsletter and Best Newsletter Launch inews.co.uk/news/the-i-paper…

▫ Streeting will stand for PM on pledge to rejoin the EU ▫Streeting to double down on calls to rejoin EU – despite anger from ‘Red Wall’ MPs ▫@janemerrick23 ▫tinyurl.com/2csw8ctq @theipaper #frontpagestoday #UK 🇬🇧

▫ Streeting and Burnham start leadership battle to force out Starmer ▫‘S**t show at the f**k factory’: Inside Streeting’s plan B – and the stalled coup ▫@janemerrick23 @kitty_donaldson @RichardVaughan1 @singharj @ChaplainChloe ▫is.gd/Vf0nz8 @theipaper #frontpagestoday #UK 🇬🇧

The inside story of another insane day in British politics... by @janemerrick23, @kitty_donaldson, Richard Vaughan & @singharj for @theipaper 'S**tshow at the f**k factory': Streeting's plan B - and the stalled coup - inews.co.uk/news/politics/st…