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The Guardian Politics20 May 2026

Badenoch says Labour ‘just want a better salesman’. It would be a good start

Starmer has a reasonable list of achievements in power but has undermined himself with a lack of political storytelling Net migration down by three-quarters, the biggest fall in NHS waiting lists for 17 years, knife crime cut by 10%, the economy growing the fastest in the G7, rising wages, energy bills and petrol prices held down, the biggest sustained rise in defence spending since the cold war, a massive expansion of free childcare … If Keir Starmer did tub-thumping lists of Labour’s achieveme

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The Guardian Politics20 May 2026

The Treasury’s supermarket food price cap wheeze was bananas | Nils Pratley

Retailers such as M&S need not worry – the UK is not in a state of emergency and competition is clearly working Call for food price caps ‘preposterous’, says M&S boss “Completely preposterous,” said Stuart Machin, chief executive of Marks & Spencer, about the Treasury’s proposal for voluntary price caps on food staples. He was outdone in the outrage stakes by City analyst Clive Black at Shore Capital, who thought the government “appears to be losing its mind in an orgy of neo-Soviet policy ide

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Express Politics20 May 2026

Rachel Reeves slapped down by M&S boss over 'preposterous' supermarket price cap plans

'Idiotic' proposal blasted as Labour urged to cut tax and regulatory burden instead

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Conservative Home20 May 2026

PMQs Badenoch brands Labour government as ‘like the Soviets won’

The Tory leader likened Britain under Sir Keir Starmer to the Soviet Union as she attacked his foreign and economic policies at PMQs The post PMQs Badenoch brands Labour government as ‘like the Soviets won’ appeared first on Conservative Home.

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Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

THE BURNHAM RECEIPTS: Arch-Blairite Andy Supported Reduction in Wealth Taxes

Burnham has had varied views on tax policy. It’s almost as if he doesn’t know what he is talking about and will say anything… When he was Chief Secretary to the Treasury he defended the lower capital gains tax rates introduced by the Blair government. He said that Labour’s reforms represented “the right balance between…

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Express Politics20 May 2026

Fury as Rachel Reeves to impose £2,500 extra council tax on thousands of homes

New charge slapped on the most expensive properties on top of existing payments

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Express Politics20 May 2026

Rachel Reeves, hope is not a viable strategy – and neither is a betrayal of Brexit

If I wanted to do great harm to the British economy, I'd pursue exactly the kind of 'strategy' Labour is espousing.

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Express Politics20 May 2026

Rachel Reeves accused of plotting to hit pensioners with conservatories with more tax

Rachel Reeves has been accused of plotting to hit pensioners with a further tax should their home feature a conservatory

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Express Politics20 May 2026

Sadiq Khan's decade of failure laid bare in damning report

Sadiq Khan's decade as London Mayor has been branded a monument to failure with 150 days of strikes, and 80% council tax rise.

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The Guardian Politics20 May 2026

Rachel Reeves to protect ‘critical’ clean energy projects from legal challenges

Chancellor’s planning shake-up would ‘reduce exposure from judicial review on all but human rights grounds’ Rachel Reeves is ​preparing to announce a planning shake-up ‌that would fast-track clean energy ​and infrastructure projects by curbing judicial reviews, the ​Treasury said. The chancellor will propose that parliament should be able to designate and approve the most important clean energy projects as of “critical national importance”, as part of a wider package seeking to blunt the impact

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Express Politics20 May 2026

Fury as Rachel Reeves plots 'cruel' new 'pay as you die' tax

Sir James Cleverly, the shadow housing secretary, said many pensioners would feel pressured to defer payments before passing the debt on to their children.

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Guido Fawkes20 May 2026

Net Zero Labour Eases Sanctions on Putin to Buy More Russian Crude

Last night the government waived some Russian oil sanctions to allow imports of diesel and jet fuel from Russian crude processed in third countries. Indian products mostly… Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury Dan Tomlinson could not say he was comfortable with the move on Sky News when asked but did say: “There’s a whole range of…

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