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Rayner’s housing plan at risk as construction sector warns UK does not have workers to build 1.5 million homes

Exclusive: The construction industry has poured cold water on the government’s plans to fix the housing crisis, saying a failure to tackle a growing recruitment crisis is ‘not only short-sighted but also dangerous’

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BBC Host Fiona Bruce Clashes With Labour Minister Over Immigration Policy Debate

In a heated exchange on BBC Question Time, host Fiona Bruce clashed with Labour Minister Baroness Jacqui Smith over the Government's controversial new immigration policy.

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BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce and Labour minister Jacqui Smith in heated clash over migrant crackdown

BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce clashed with Labour minister Baroness Jacqui Smith over the government’s immigration policy.

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GB News Star Destroys Labour Minister with Savage Six-Word Reform Slam

Labor Minister Jacqui Smith faced a tough grilling on GB News over her party's recent anti-immigration adverts targeting the North East.

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11 Labour Councillors Suspended Over Vile WhatsApp Messages Mocking Pensioners, Jews and Gay MPs

Labour has suspended 11 councillors over a vile WhatsApp group where members exchanged racist, sexist, and homophobic messages, sparking outrage and calls for accountability.

International Business Times UK

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown pay tribute to 'working class hero' at John Prescott's funeral

Labour leaders past and present gathered at Hull Minster to remember the former deputy prime minister

Evening Standard

Starmer, Blair and Brown among mourners at Prescott funeral

The service for the former deputy prime minister, who died in November aged 86, is being held at Hull Minster.

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Ministers to revise university freedom of speech legislation

Contentious liability clause that could have exposed institutions to being sued by Holocaust deniers is scrapped

The Guardian - UK

Fact check: Home Office memo advised police how to deal with vulnerable children

The Home Office circular did not contain the quote, or sentiments, that online users have attributed to it.

Evening Standard

England has highest proportion of adults ‘overqualified’ for their jobs – report

The OECD study assesses the literacy, numeracy and problem-solving skills of adults from 31 countries and economies.

Evening Standard

England has highest proportion of ‘overqualified’ adults, report finds

The British university system has been accused of ‘overextending itself’

The Independent UK

College staff should have pay ‘matched’ with school teachers – Jacqui Smith

Baroness Jacqui Smith said further education staff felt ‘rightly’ disappointed that they had not got the same pay rise as school teachers.

Evening Standard

Who are the key New Labour figures in Keir Starmer’s government?

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

The Guardian - UK

Raise tuition fees to ease pressure on English universities, says Peter Mandelson

Labour peer says costs should rise in line with inflation but that universities would still have ‘tough choices’

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Outdoor smoking ban likely to encourage people to quit, says minister

Jacqui Smith hits back at critics of plan and claims smoking is ‘biggest nail in coffin of most people’ in Britain

Evening Standard

Margaret Thatcher portrait will stay on display in No10, minister says after backlash

Sir Keir Starmer is reported to have found one portrait of his Tory predecessor ‘unsettling’ and wanted it to be moved

The Guardian - UK

Workers in UK could get right to request four-day compressed week

Employees could work longer hours over fewer days under government proposals for flexible working

The Guardian - UK

Government seeking to make ‘fewer places where you can smoke’ – as it happened

Jacqui Smith says Labour hopes to ‘make it much more likely’ that smokers will want to give up

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Keir Starmer blasted as he gives expenses scandal MP plum job and peerage

KEIR Starmer has been slammed for appointing a disgraced former Labour politician who claimed expenses for pornography viewed by her husband to his…

The Guardian - UK

Familiar faces but not all from politics: meet the surprise Labour ministers

Keir Starmer made some eye-catching new appointments, including a human rights barrister and a rehabilitation campaigner

The Independent UK

All the Labour cabinet members who aren’t MPs from Patrick Vallance to James Timpson

The cabinet includes senior ministers from the Tony Blair era, and those given peerages to sit in the House of Lords

The Guardian - UK

Labour planning to replace NHS England chair with party loyalist

Exclusive: Alan Milburn, Jacqui Smith and Sally Morgan would be contenders to take over from Richard Meddings

The Independent UK

Iain Dale drops out of Tunbridge Wells election race after 3 days as embarrassing LBC radio clip resurfaces

LBC presenter Iain Dale has quit the election race just 48 hours after announcing he would stand as a Tory MP

The Guardian - UK

Housing asylum seekers on barge ‘untenable’ after legionella discovery, says charity – as it happened

Asylum seekers removed from Bibby Stockholm after legionella bacteria found in water system onboard

Daily Mirror

Good Morning Britain star rushed to hospital for an operation after scary accident

The Good Morning Britain regular was rushed to hospital following the incident on the London Underground

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