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Express Politics24 Mar 2026

Major pensions warning as Brits ‘oblivious to major Rachel Reeves changes'

Rachel Reeves is set to take more of the £5.5trillion expected to pass between generations over the next three decades.

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The Guardian Politics24 Mar 2026

Reeves slips into yoga voice to try to soothe fears over costs of Trump’s war | John Crace

The chancellor was meant to set out her contingency plans but it was an announcement without any announcements in it You have to feel a bit sorry for the chancellor. Roughly four weeks ago, Rachel Reeves had come to the Commons to deliver her spring statement. A moderately upbeat picture of the nation’s finances that didn’t necessarily coincide with people’s lived experience. Still, it more or less did the trick. Bought her another six months until the autumn budget. Or so she thought. Now, than

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The Guardian Politics24 Mar 2026

UK defence firms ‘bleeding cash’ as delayed spending plan leaves industry in ‘paralysis’

Industry groups say delay to defence investment plan (DIP) leaving UK behind in global race for funding Defence manufacturers are going bust while others have been left in “paralysis” and “bleeding cash” as they wait for a long-delayed UK military spending plan for the next decade, MPs have heard. Industry groups said that a more than six-month delay to the defence investment plan (DIP) has also left the UK behind Germany and the US in attracting cash from global investors. Continue reading...

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BBC Politics24 Mar 2026

Reeves plans energy bill help for those 'who need it most'

The US-Israel war with Iran is having an impact on costs domestically, with oil and gas prices soaring.

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The Guardian Politics24 Mar 2026

What levers could Rachel Reeves pull to help with rising prices?

What the chancellor could do to counter the economic impacts of Iran war, from stopping price gouging to cancelling fuel duty rises Reeves rules out universal support on energy bills Business live – latest updates Rachel Reeves updated MPs on Tuesday about the steps the government was taking to cushion the impact of the Iran war on consumers and the UK economy. The chancellor stopped short of announcing specific immediate support but said she was contingency planning for the tough months ahea

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The Guardian Politics24 Mar 2026

Starmer’s press tormentors are merciless. He either needs to fight back or bypass them | Jane Martinson

Now the rightwing press are accusing the PM of cowardice over Iran. He must stop letting them craft his narrative and create his own If there was one thing Keir Starmer might have hoped the UK media would support him over, it was his refusal to follow a US president blindly into war in the Middle East. After all, his Labour predecessor Tony Blair only really got hammered in the press over warmongering in Iraq. Those hopes must now be dashed. On Sunday, three major newspaper groups led with dire

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BBC Politics24 Mar 2026

Reeves plans energy bill help for those 'who need it most'

The US-Israel war with Iran is having an impact on costs domestically, with oil and gas prices soaring.

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The Guardian Politics24 Mar 2026

MPs accuse social media firms of Iran misinformation

Parliamentary hearing focused on online harms from X, TikTok and Meta including use of AI to nudify young girls UK politics live – latest updates MPs have accused “complacent” social media giants of spreading Iran war misinformation, allowing political deepfakes that could threaten elections and still enabling the use of AI to nudify young girls. In a testy parliamentary hearing that exposed deepening frustration among MPs with big tech firms, X, TikTok and Meta listed measures they have taken

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Express Politics24 Mar 2026

Rachel Reeves is making UK poorer – while helping US and Norway get rich

OPINION - TIM NEWARK: Call me old-fashioned, but I think the job of the Chancellor should be to bring prosperity to Britain

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The Guardian Politics24 Mar 2026

The Peaky Blinders film is pandering to these populist times – I should know, the Nazi in it is my father | Francis Beckett

The film-makers would say they’re making drama, not history. But this is not the moment for yet another second world war film with a heroic myth The new Peaky Blinders film, The Immortal Man, offers us a character, John Beckett, who is a British Nazi. One of the two founders of Britain’s first Nazi party in 1937, alongside William Joyce and John Angus Macnab, was indeed a man named John Beckett. He had been director of publications for Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists, but that year he

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The Guardian Politics24 Mar 2026

No fuel shortage in Britain, says minister, as Reeves prepares to set out economic response to Iran war – UK politics live

Energy minister Michael Shanks reassures drivers ahead of chancellor’s statement to MPs Good morning. At lunchtime Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, will give a statement to MPs that will cover what the government is doing, and (more tentatively) might do, in response to the soaring global energy prices caused by the Iran war. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, also creating a global energy shortage, the Conservative government ended up spending £40bn supporting families and firms with energy bi

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Express Politics24 Mar 2026

Nigel Farage vows to scrap 'puritan' smoking ban as he insists 'we know the risks!'

Farage has pledged to scrap the generational smoking ban, branding it 'utterly unworkable' and warning the 'puritanical spirit of Cromwell stalks the land'.

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