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    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      COP28
      Starmer to stress Labour’s green credentials at COP28

      Opposition party leader will accuse Rishi Sunak of watering down efforts to hit net zero by 2050

      Sir Keir Starmer visits an on-shore wind farm near Grimsby in Lincolnshire
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      FT live news
      News updates from November 30: Global stocks record best month in 3 years on rate cut hopes, US oil production rises to fresh record
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      ObituaryAlistair Darling
      Alistair Darling, UK chancellor, 1953-2023

      Treasury chief who played a central role in forging the global response to the financial crisis

      Alistair Darling
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      UK locked down 3 weeks too late, Hancock tells Covid inquiry

      ‘Toxic culture’ in government hampered response, former health secretary says

      Screengrab of Matt Hancock giving evidence during the UK’s Covid-19 inquiry on November 30 2023
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      UK tax
      Labour rules out scrapping inheritance tax relief for farmland

      Plans welcomed by landowners but could constrain party’s fiscal headroom if it wins power next year

      Sheep graze in in the Leicestershire countryside, England, with cottages in the background
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour set to outline plans to protect Britons’ access to cash

      Proposals include building 350 ‘banking hubs’ as physical money services dwindle across UK

      Rachel Reeves
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Britain after Brexit
      UK political climate on immigration toughens task of ‘fixing’ EU ties Premium content

      Plus, concerns over levels of net migration to Britain have diverged among Tory and Labour voters since 2021

      Rishi Sunak and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      UK labour disputes
      RMT to end UK rail strikes after members accept pay deal

      Agreement ends 18 months of national action by rail workers, but walkouts by train drivers to continue

      RMT members on a picket line during strike action outside London’s Euston railway station in January
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Alistair Darling
      Former UK chancellor Alistair Darling dies at 70

      Labour politician ran the Treasury between 2007 and 2010

      Alistair Darling
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Inside Politics
      Losing BBC Newsnight’s investigation arm is bad decision

      Funding squeeze risks dulling the power of its dogged reporting in holding the broadcaster to account

      A woman walks past a set of TV screens broadcasting the news
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      Buy-to-let
      Scotland’s rent controls pile pressure on landlords

      Edinburgh government’s housing bill prompts fresh concerns

      Edinburgh’s New Town
    • Thursday, 30 November, 2023
      National Health Service
      Nurses from ‘red list’ nations boost NMC register

      Health professionals warn about over-reliance on ‘unethical’ hiring from overseas

      Two nurses walking towards an ambulance
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      UK employment
      ONS ‘experimental’ data lowers UK unemployment rate to 3.5%

      Rosier picture of jobs market comes on top of upgrades to GDP but statistics agency urges caution

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    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      UK Budget
      Hunt says budget too tight to restore overseas aid funding

      UK chancellor commits to lift spending to previous levels when it becomes fiscally possible

      Jeremy Hunt, UK chancellor
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Media
      MPs call for national security check of Telegraph deal

      Conservative backbencher move comes as culture secretary is set to ask watchdogs to probe RedBird IMI’s bid

      Laptop showing telegraph.com website
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      UK immigration
      Under 2% of people arriving in UK by small boats removed since 2018

      Data highlights pressure on PM to tackle backlog in asylum claims ahead of next election

      Lifeboat crew and people thought to be migrants onboard the RNLI Dungeness following a small-boat incident in the Channel
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      UK foreign policy
      Sunak dismisses talk of Britain rejoining EU

      UK prime minister steps up attack on Greek counterpart over Elgin Marbles

      The so-called Elgin Marbles in the British Museum in London
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      UK Covid inquiry
      Boris Johnson ‘not in charge’ in lead-up to pandemic, inquiry hears

      Sajid Javid says former UK PM allowed Dominic Cummings to make key government decisions in early days of crisis

      Sajid Javid giving evidence at the Covid inquiry
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Labour Party UK
      Labour loses Muslim support over stance on Israel-Hamas ceasefire

      ‘Heartbroken’ voters angered by Keir Starmer’s position, threatening party’s political momentum ahead of election

      IT worker Mohammed Rahman outside a mosque in Bethnal Green, London, England
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Robert Shrimsley
      Spare us the sanctimony on fit and proper media owners

      The UAE-Telegraph deal should probably be blocked but the roll call of UK press barons is hardly one to shout about

      Illustration of hands guiding a person to read a newspaper.
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Diane Coyle
      Britain needs a new public body to spur productivity

      This would help in tackling the country’s chronic under-investment and policy churn

      Montage of intermeshed cogs in the foreground with a fed graph line running through them against a background of the UK Houses of Parliament
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Inside Politics
      ‘Safest graveyard’ phrase will stick amid Tory worry about financial regulators

      Also in this newsletter, why row over Parthenon Sculptures is not a ‘dead cat’ strategy by Rishi Sunak

      A view of City of London
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Nato’s reassurances to Ukraine are starting to ring hollow Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Greece’s ‘universal’ outrage over the Parthenon marbles

      Jens Stoltenberg
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Anjana Ahuja
      How (not) to do science in a crisis

      It is a way of thinking that is open to the curious, not a boxful of unchanging truths only for the initiated

      Andy Carter illustration of a scientist and a politician holding off a huge hurricane, closing it together as if it were curtains
    • Wednesday, 29 November, 2023
      Politics23 min
      Sketchy Politics: Sunak sets out his stall for the election

      How the British prime minister hopes to tempt voters to support the Conservatives

      Sketchy Politics: Sunak's election offer
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