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Ignore the online CV truthers. If anything, Rachel Reeves is overqualified to be UK chancellor

Gordon Brown and George Osborne studied history, but neither faced the questions of suitability levelled at the first woman in the job, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Post Office campaigner Alan Bates says he’s been waiting a month for reply from PM about compensation delays – as it happened

Former post office operator tells Commons committee that Keir Starmer has not responded to requests for help with settling claims for Horizon scandal

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‘High energy, high risk’: Tories already wonder if Kemi Badenoch will last until the next election

She says virtually nothing on policy, but this is no cautious ‘Ming vase’ strategy. Her appetite for chaos will make or break her, says Katy Balls, political editor of the Spectator

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Greggs scoffs at reports of snub by its Christmas ad star Nigella Lawson

TV chef, who has signed up for bakery chain’s first ever festive advert, says she is a fan of its sausage rolls

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After Reeves’s historic budget, Labour has time to pursue its revolution. What it needs now is public trust

The government is operating in an unforgiving time and lacks capital with voters. It will be crucial to address that, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

At last, a government willing to spend – but this budget will expose it to two great dangers

The good news: more money is on the table. The problems lie around how it will be raised – and who doesn’t stand to benefit, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Rachel Reeves borrows George Osborne’s mantra in ‘strivers’ Budget

But Keir Starmer vows no return to austerity as he paves way for tax rises and spending cuts

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Rachel Reeves claims her Budget is for strivers amid uncertainty over ‘working people’

Echo of Tory chancellor George Osborne’s claims as Labour prepares to raise taxes

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Jeremy Hunt claims Labour changing debt definition will ‘punish families with mortgages’ – as it happened

Former chancellor says ‘increasing borrowing means interest rates would be higher for longer’ as Reeves says it will ‘make space for investment’

The Guardian - UK

George Osborne backs ‘HS2-lite’ plan for Manchester-Birmingham route

Exclusive: Business leaders seek support for scheme in budget as former chancellor calls it ‘good investment’

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At least 10,000 children have fallen into poverty under Labour, analysis finds

Campaigners say key reason for rising hardship is two-child benefit cap, which PM and chancellor have refused to axe

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British history is being destroyed before our eyes – and it has nothing to do with culture wars over statues

Brutal cuts to council budgets have decimated museums and forced some to close. We’re at risk of losing our shared memory, writes Guardian columnist John Harris

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The crisis-hit Tories need good advice. Will they really get it from Michael Gove’s Spectator?

The Speccie was a wise voice compared to the rest of the rightwing media. But can it remain so within the stable of the man who owns GB News, asks Archie Bland, editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter

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OPINION - George Osborne: Does Rachel Reeves really care about London?

Then she needs to prove it in the Budget — here’s how I’d do it, says former Chancellor George Osborne

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‘I have £7 in my bank account’: how the two-child benefit cap changed Britain

The limit was introduced by George Osborne and has pushed whole households into poverty. Why isn’t the Labour government ditching it?

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Keir Starmer is ‘the new George Osborne’ says John McDonnell

Former Labour shadow chancellor attacks plan to curb welfare fraud and says the prime minister is becoming a ‘replica’ of the former Tory chancellor

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Starmer promises swift action against welfare fraudsters

PM to pledge to ‘leave no stone unturned’ in bid to rebuild public services and save £1.6bn over five years

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Keir Starmer says Labour can deliver change and national renewal in conference speech – as it happened

PM promises to ‘leave no stone unturned’ as his government seeks to ‘rebuild our public services’

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Starmer leads with compromise for new family pet – and gets ‘dog-like’ cat

Siberian kitten at No 10 may get frosty reception from chief mouser Larry, who took on George Osborne’s cat, Freya

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Labour’s decision to cut winter fuel payments is mean and politically inept

Means-testing will hit up to 2 million people. Rachel Reeves would be wise to admit she was wrong, says Guardian economics editor Larry Elliott

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I believed Starmer and Reeves were too smart to repeat austerity. It appears I was wrong

New governments usually come into power offering hope and a break with the past. This one is squandering the opportunity for a fresh start, says David Blanchflower

Evening Standard

OPINION - Rachel Reeves's impossible choice: Truss or Osborne?

Liz Truss or George Osborne? For Rachel Reeves, neither is exactly her political lodestar. From a Labour perspective, the former moved far too fast with her 'mini-Budget' and in doing so sparked a run on gilts. In contrast, the latter slowly strangled the UK economy with cuts to capital spending…

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'Austerity Anas' accused of 'hypocrisy' after voting for £30bn of Tory spending cuts

THE leader of Scottish Labour has been branded “austerity Anas” after it emerged he backed £30 billion of Tory cuts while an MP – as his…

The National (Scotland)

Stephen Flynn delivers speech to SNP conference – read in full

STEPHEN Flynn said the SNP must “re-root ourselves in the priorities of Scottish people” as he delivered his speech to SNP conference.

The Guardian - UK

Can new towns give Keir Starmer the answer to Britain’s housing crisis?

It’s a huge challenge, as shown in Ebbsfleet, where one such new town was launched by George Osborne in 2015, but now only has 3,000 or so of the 12,500 promised homes

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