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              UK general election

              • Monday, 22 July, 2024
                UK employment
                Starmer pledges to ‘fire up’ the training of UK workers to boost growth

                Prime minister insists government will resist ‘easy lever’ of foreign labour

                Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Farnborough International Airshow
              • Monday, 22 July, 2024
                UK energy
                UK set to miss 2030 clean power targets, experts warn

                Analysis by Cornwall Insight points to scale of challenge in transitioning electricity system away from fossil fuels

                Offshore wind turbines
              • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
                Pensions
                ‘Government must act to avoid retirement crisis’

                Industry warns on pensions bill’s missed opportunity on minimum contributions

                Commuters at London’s Canary Wharf
              • Friday, 19 July, 2024
                UK politics
                UK seeks ‘regular’ EU meetings to rebuild post-Brexit relations

                Starmer’s new envoy wants to see Britain ‘reconnected on the world stage’

              • Friday, 19 July, 2024
                Camilla Cavendish
                Starmer’s machismo state is preparing for battle

                The King’s Speech identified a government ready for fights on housebuilding and welfare

                Illustration of piles of documents with King Charles’s crown balanced on top of one of the piles, against a background of pink wallpaper with a royal insignia design
              • Friday, 19 July, 2024
                Toby Nangle
                Change is under way at last in UK pensions

                New bill tackles some pressing issues but much more reform is needed

                A man places a coin in a white piggy bank in front of a Union Jack
              • Friday, 19 July, 2024
                UK employment
                Overhaul of workers’ rights raises alarm among employers

                Businesses say Labour’s proposals to give protection against unfair dismissal from day one lack clarity

                An Amazon delivery worker pulls a delivery cart full of packages
              • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
                Robert Shrimsley
                Keir Starmer’s never-ending insurgency

                Those around the prime minister want to wage a permanent campaign for change that voters will give them credit for

                Illustration of Keir Starmer in a beret with a red start on it against a red background
              • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                Labour’s Britain champions a more active state

                The government should strive to be an enabler, not a controller

                King Charles III and Queen Camilla lead a procession through the House of Lords
              • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
                UK tax
                HMRC clamps down on abuse of tax-saving workplace childcare scheme

                Employers are failing to meet the eligibility criteria as third party ‘agents’ reap profits, experts warn

                A child playing at nursery
              • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
                Labour party UK
                Labour to hold majority of select committee chair roles

                Party’s share of top oversight roles in parliament set to more than double after election victory

                Sir Keir Starmer
              • Monday, 15 July, 2024
                Inside Politics
                Why the Conservatives are in no rush to find a new leader

                A longer leadership contest helps MPs build momentum around their preferred candidates — and it worked in 2005

                Kemi Badenoch is sworn in as MP in July 2024
              • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
                Josh Simons
                To beat the populist right, Labour must be an insurgent government

                Politicians in the main parties have been put on notice and given a simple mandate by insecure voters: fix things

                A rosette badge on the jacket of a supporter of Reform UK
              • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
                Scottish National party
                SNP funding pressures weigh on party after bruising election

                Defeat at the hands of Labour means the nationalists have just £358,000 of annual funding from Westminster, down from £1.3mn

                John Swinney
              • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
                Labour party UK
                Corbyn and other independent MPs form loose coalition to pressure Labour

                Pro-Palestine grouping seeks to push Sir Keir Starmer on Gaza stance and UK arms sales to Israel

                Jeremy Corbyn and Iqbal Mohamed on stage with other campaigners at a pro-Palestine protest in London on Saturday
              • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
                Jo Ellison
                The brassy brilliance of Angela Rayner 

                Forget the critics, the deputy prime minister is the most relatable MP I’ve ever seen

              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                Labour party UK
                Starmer’s relegation of 31 Labour MPs and peers creates cohort of potential troublemakers

                Prime minister promotes several newcomers straight into junior front bench roles

                Emily Thornberry
              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                The Big Read
                How will Rachel Reeves run the UK’s finances?

                The chancellor’s mission to stoke economic growth faces dire headwinds, and might call for harsh trade-offs

              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                News in-depthReform party UK
                Can Reform win over Labour’s heartlands?

                Nigel Farage’s vow to build a ‘national movement’ rings alarm bells after slew of second-place election results

                Reform UK’s Richard Tice, left, and Nigel Farage launch the party’s manifesto in Merthyr Tydfil in June
              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                News in-depthNorthern Ireland
                Northern Ireland’s unionists grapple with fragmenting support

                Political bloc struggles to rally behind a united message and broaden its appeal

                Bonfires form part of celebrations to mark Protestant King William III’s victory over Catholic King James at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690
              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                Claire Ainsley
                Labour must heed warnings from the global centre-left

                Politics loves a winner but counterparts around the world face the perils of incumbency

                Keir Starmer leans over and shakes hands with Joe Biden
              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                Data PointsJohn Burn-Murdoch
                Why is the populist right surging across Europe, but not Britain?

                It would be naive to see the UK as immune to this phenomenon; Reform UK is not yet ready

                Marine Le Pen, Nigel Farage and Giorgia Meloni with red and blue graph lines running behind them
              • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
                Nigel Farage
                Nigel Farage set to return to GB News

                Reform UK’s leader had previously hosted a show but stepped down when the election was called

                Nigel Farage on GB News
              • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
                Free LunchMartin Sandbu
                Labour’s ‘seatslide’: when a landslide is not a mandate Premium content

                (And a mandate is not a landslide)

                Keir Starmer waves as he stands in front of a lectern with the slogan ‘Change begins’ as supporters standing behind him applaud and wave flags
              • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
                Alan Beattie
                The immigration dilemma Labour hopes will go away

                Starmer’s government faces a familiar trade-off between the economics and the politics of foreign workers

                An inflatable craft carrying migrants crosses the shipping lane in the English Channel
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