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The Guardian Politics8 Jun 2026

Top chefs back Andy Burnham for prime minister to cut VAT on hospitality

Tom Kerridge says ‘whole of hospitality’ should get behind Burnham who has called for VAT cut from 20% to 10% Chefs and restaurateurs have said they hope Andy Burnham becomes prime minister after he backed calls to cut VAT tax for hospitality businesses. Burnham, who is standing as the Labour candidate in the Makerfield byelection and is expected to launch a challenge to Keir Starmer’s leadership if he wins, has called for the rate to be cut from 20% to 10% to be in line with European rates. Co

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The Guardian Politics8 Jun 2026

Silicon Valley including Meta has embraced Maga politics, says Nick Clegg

Meta’s former head of global affairs says executives pivoted right in some cases for ‘rather more self-interested’ reasons Silicon Valley companies including Meta have decided to embrace Maga politics, some for “rather more self-interested” reasons, the former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has said. Clegg, who spent nearly seven years at Meta as the head of global affairs, told The Rest is Money podcast that it felt like “a very good time for me to move on” when he left the company in Marc

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The Guardian Politics7 Jun 2026

Zelenskyy meets key allies in London aiming to build on strikes on Russia

Keir Starmer hosts Ukrainian, French and German leaders in Downing Street amid optimism in Kyiv over state of war Volodymyr Zelenskyy met his staunchest allies at Downing Street on Sunday night, hours after a Russian drone strike damaged a storage centre for spent nuclear fuel nine miles from the Chornobyl nuclear power plant. Keir Starmer welcomed Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz for a meeting to discuss ongoing support for Ukraine as the country seeks to capitalise on a series of

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The Guardian Politics7 Jun 2026

UK readies sanctions against Israel to deter proposed illegal West Bank settlement

Move comes as 137 Labour MPs sign letter demanding ‘urgent, concrete action’ to stop settler violence The UK Foreign Office and a group of western countries are due to announce a package of sanctions against Israel this week designed to deter companies from becoming involved in a proposed West Bank settlement that would split the territory in two and render the concept of a two-state solution near impossible. Nine countries including France, the UK and Australia have warned that settlement viole

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The Guardian Politics7 Jun 2026

Confessions of political liveblogger: ‘I enjoy it professionally – but, as a citizen, you can think the country’s going to hell in a handcart’

Andrew Sparrow has been writing the Guardian’s daily political live blog for more 15 years. How does he cope with the relentless psychodrama of British politics? On Monday at 14:12 BST, the Guardian’s Andrew Sparrow posted two sentences announcing one of the largest government document dumps in British political history: The Cabinet Office has published the Mandelson files. They are in three volumes. Many people despair at the quality of governance in Britain at the moment, but in one respec

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The Guardian Politics7 Jun 2026

Rachel Reeves may be unpopular, but she is quietly rebalancing UK plc

Policy U-turns could define her stint at No 11 despite many sure-footed advances on devolved spending to help kickstart growth An air of unreality settled on a Westminster conference room last week, as Rachel Reeves, upbeat in a powder pink power suit, gave a speech about boosting jobs and growth along the “OxCam corridor”. “If we get this right, working together, this corridor will not just compete globally, it will lead globally. We can do that together!” she told the audience of investors, po

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The Guardian Politics7 Jun 2026

Delays to defence investment plan have damaged UK’s credibility, say MPs

Committee calls for apology from government amid reports navy’s hunter-killer submarines are all docked A parliamentary committee that scrutinises public spending has made scathing comments about the impact of delays in the publication of the government’s defence investment plan (Dip). The Dip, originally expected last autumn, has been repeatedly postponed amid warnings that the military faces a huge funding gap over the next four years. It is due to be published before a Nato summit early next

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The Guardian Politics7 Jun 2026

Police wanted to release statement during trial of Henry Nowak’s killer – UK politics live

The local police force wanted to address what it described as online ‘disinformation’ during active court proceedings against Vickrum Digwa, a report said Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of UK politics. The justice secretary, David Lammy, is being interviewed by the BBC and Sky News this morning and will likely be asked about the future of police reform in the wake of the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak. The case has come under fresh scrutiny today with a report in the Sunday Tim

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The Guardian Politics6 Jun 2026

Starmer to host Zelenskyy and EU leaders for Ukraine talks

Volodymyr Zelenskyy to attend meeting along with French president Macron and German chancellor Merz Keir Starmer will host Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz for talks in Downing Street on Sunday to discuss support for Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader will visit the UK with the French president and German chancellor after a week of heightened hostilities and Vladimir Putin’s rejection of his proposal of face-to-face talks on Moscow’s war. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics6 Jun 2026

Leaked WhatsApps, embarrassing emails: it’s bad for British politics that privacy is now dead | Simon Jenkins

The principle underlying the release of the Mandelson papers is that officials are always ‘on the record’ – but our leaders must be able to speak their minds freely Did you know a Cabinet Office minister commiserated with Peter Mandelson on his being sacked as ambassador to Washington, saying that he was “so sorry”? How could Darren Jones possibly sympathise with a friend who lost his job? Yet his sympathy was not even on the public record, in the 1500 pages of new revelations about the Mandelso

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The Guardian Politics5 Jun 2026

Thames Water should be nationalised, says Andy Burnham

Exclusive: Labour’s Makerfield byelection candidate advocates public ownership of water companies as he prepares for potential leadership bid Thames Water should be nationalised, Andy Burnham has said, revealing public ownership of water companies would “absolutely be an option” under his potential leadership of the Labour party. Burnham, Labour’s candidate in the Makerfield byelection, has previously called for “greater public control” over the companies. In an interview with the Guardian, he h

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The Guardian Politics5 Jun 2026

Chagossians urge UK to complete islands’ handover to Mauritius

Delegation of Chagos refugees visiting Britain says issue has been ‘hijacked within the halls’ of politics A Chagossian delegation visiting the UK has urged parliamentarians to complete stalled legislation to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, which they say has been “hijacked within the halls” of UK politics. The six-person contingent from the Chagos Refugees Group expressed their full support for the UK to conclude an agreement after the government was forced to shelve legislation when the

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