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Senior Labour MPs demanded yesterday that Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood take action to stop top Tories “electioneering at taxpayer’s expense.”
Shadow cabinet office minister Jon Trickett said the Civil Service chief must put an “immediate halt” to party political campaigning by ministers on government business.
He told the Star: “We’re getting close now to a position where this is a breach of fundamental constitutional principles.”
The 2025 Budget shores up the PM’s political position with headline-grabbing welfare U-turns, but with no improvements on offer to declining public services or living standards, writes MICHAEL BURKE
The BBC and OBR claim that failing to cut disability benefits could ‘destabilise the economy’ while ignoring the spendthrift approach to tens of billions on military spending that really spirals out of control, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Our two-tear Chancellor’s woes at PMQs caused a multimillion-pound sinking feeling on the bond market, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY