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May 18
🚨🇺🇸 I'm moving to DC next month to join @thetimes team across the pond as Washington Correspondent
Will miss my incredible colleagues here after two years in Westminster but very excited for the new job!
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Jun 8
PM confirms our story from last week in a speech this morning 👇
Jun 4
EXC: Tech bosses will be threatened with prison time if they fail to block children from seeing naked images on their phones
Ministers to force companies such as Google and Apple to stop children using their devices from sending, receiving, viewing or sharing naked pictures
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Max Kendix retweeted
Jun 7
"STARMER BAN ON 'HARMFUL' SOCIAL MEDIA FOR CHILDREN"
@MaxKendix / @Stefan_Boscia / @Oliver_Wright for @TheTimes
Sir Keir Starmer is preparing to announce a ban on “harmful” Social Media platforms for under-16s.
#TheTimes
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Jun 7
Exc: Labour could give many of Reform UK’s target areas tax breaks under plans being discussed by ministers
Small businesses in more than 280 areas selected by the government under the “Pride in Place” scheme could be given a business rates holiday
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Jun 7
Exc: Starmer will cap ground rents paid by more than four million leaseholders a year earlier than expected after pressure from Labour MPs
Ministers will pledge to implement the ÂŁ250 cap by late 2027 instead of late 2028
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Jun 4
EXC: Tech bosses will be threatened with prison time if they fail to block children from seeing naked images on their phones
Ministers to force companies such as Google and Apple to stop children using their devices from sending, receiving, viewing or sharing naked pictures
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Jun 3
Exc: Labour is ripping up local government for “politically driven” reasons, putting social care in jeopardy and costing taxpayers as much as £1 billion extra, a majority of affected council leaders have claimed
Nineteen council leaders writing to PM and Steve Reed with concerns
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Jun 1
Exc: Ministers to refuse to cap companies’ donations to political parties based on profit, a key recommendation of government review into foreign influence in British politics
Rycroft recommendation turned down in favour of cap on company’s total revenue, a much weaker test
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May 25
Exc: Families on benefits could be paid hundreds of pounds a month to stop them discouraging their teenage children from taking apprenticeships
Ministers are considering grants in cases where those aged 16 and 17 can cause their parents to lose money by leaving education
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May 24
"MONEY FOR PARENTS TO SPUR YOUNG INTO WORK"
@MaxKendix / @Geri_E_L_Scott for @TheTimes
Families on benefits could be paid hundreds of pounds a month to stop them discouraging their teenage children from taking apprenticeships.
#TheTimes
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May 21
Exc: Private providers of social care face having “excessive or unjustified” profits capped amid concerns of councils being sent into bankruptcy
Steve Reed will write to council leaders today to ask for “unreasonable cost escalation or particularly egregious Âbehaviour”
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May 21
Government sources say they aim to introduce caps in “any aspect of local government servicing that is clearly being gouged”
Full story here
thetimes.com/article/45097a7…
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May 20
Excl w/ @MaxKendix & @breeallegretti: Wes Streeting is likely to abandon his bid for the Labour leadership and fall in behind Andy Burnham if the Greater Manchester mayor wins the Makerfield by-election, senior allies believe.
Figures organising for the former health secretary told The Times that there was an emerging feeling that “no one can beat Andy” if Burnham makes it back to parliament and launches a putsch against Sir Keir Starmer.
A source close to Streeting dismissed the suggestions as “rubbish” and said that he could not have been clearer that he would stand in any race.
But another suggested there had been open discussions about whether Streeting would eventually fall in behind Burnham.
They said: “The consensus among the team is that if Andy wins Makerfield, it turns to bargaining for the best possible secretary of state position. If he loses, that’s a different matter.”
Another added: “There is a world where Wes has looked at the polling and doesn’t go over the top.”
A third senior ally of Streeting in parliament said: “I don’t think it’s clear cut. If Andy wins the by-election it’s obviously a real success. But where he stands on a whole range of issues is unknown and there’s clearly a case for having a good open process where we figure out.”
A spokesperson for Streeting said: “Wes couldn’t have been clearer: he wants Andy to win Makerfield, wants him in the battle of ideas we need in Labour, and Wes will be a candidate the coming contest.”
thetimes.com/article/110e75c…
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May 20
Midgley's now told MPs that she'll be "joint political lead" with Louise Haigh now that the "brilliant" Andy Burnham has been confirmed
Sally Jameson and David Baines will be "candidate aides": Jo Platt will be "helping with PLP visits and liaison"
All 5 called for PM to resign
May 19
New: Anneliese Midgley, the leading the Makerfield by-election campaign for MPs, has sent this message to the PLP this morning
Includes a link to sign up for daily canvassing and leaflet deliveries until May 30, including on "Super Sunday" and a "Bank Holiday Monday Bonanza"
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May 19
Exc: James Roscoe, who has been removed as UK deputy head of mission in Washington, has faced questions in an investigation into the leak of top-secret discussions from a meeting of the National Security Council, Foreign Office sources say
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May 19
The reason for his departure is still unknown, with some explanation due to be given to shaken diplomats and friends in the next day
Full piece here
thetimes.com/article/e44d64a…
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