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Manchester Evening NewsState pension Winter Fuel Payments axe campaign issues new update on progress
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is facing calls to scrap plans to means-test Winter Fuel Payments
- Wales Online
DWP will decide from today whether you get £300 Winter Fuel Payment
Monday, September 16, marks a key date and you will get a letter telling you if you qualify
- Evening Standard
Nigel Farage told to 'put up or shut up' on small boats Channel crisis by senior Tory MP Sir Roger Gale
Reform UK leader accused of offering no solutions to stop illegal cross-channel crossings
- The Independent
The inside story of how Putin torpedoed Starmer’s first big foreign policy ‘tough decision’ moment
News analysis: Starmer wants us to believe that he is the prime minister who ‘will make the tough decisions’ but his trip to Washington DC proved that he finds this much easier in regards to Britain’s pensioners than dealing with Putin
- The Guardian
Labour MPs who missed winter fuel vote given ‘feudal’ warning by whips
Letter warns abstainers over future conduct, while the one rebel MP apparently retains whip
- The Northern Echo
Starmer faces fresh attacks over 'extremely foolish' Winter Fuel Payment change
The Prime Minister and Chancellor Rachel Reeves have insisted the Winter Fuel Payment decision was necessary to help address a £22 billion “black hole”
- HuffPost UK
Clip Of Starmer Lecturing Boris Johnson Over 'Cash For Curtains' Scandal Resurfaces Amid Sleaze Row
The current PM has been accused of not declaring gifts from donors – much like one of his predecessors.
- The Telegraph
Graham Brady: ‘I spotted Cameron’s fatal flaw after being a thorn in his flesh for over a decade’
I had my first run-ins with David Cameron long before he became prime minister. We hadn’t started on what Dave would have seen as the right foot for me to be an easy chairman, which was one of the reasons he repeatedly tried – always clumsily – to get rid of me or sideline the 1922 Committee throughout his premiership. At least, though, he had a veneer of politeness, which his political other half George Osborne lacked.
- The Telegraph
End ‘shocking’ lack of contact with us, Muslim Council of Britain urges Starmer
The head of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has urged Labour to end a “shocking” ban on government talks with the lobby group.
- The Independent
How has Italy reduced small boat arrivals by more than 60% in a year – and what is the Albania scheme?
Sir Keir Starmer says he is looking to Italy for answers on how to reduce Channel crossings
- The Telegraph
Edinburgh council forced to backtrack on holiday let crackdown
Hundreds of holiday-let owners in Edinburgh have had suspensions lifted after the city council was threatened with legal action.
- PA Media: UK News
Welsh FM tells opponents to take winter fuel payments criticism to Westminster
Eluned Morgan faced questions over the UK Government’s plans to cut winter fuel payments for millions of pensioners during her first FMQs.
- The Hill
Johnson faces crossroads with no good options in spending fight
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is at a critical crossroads in the charged debate over federal spending, confronting few options to prevent a government shutdown — and all of them with risks. The funding fight is the last major legislative challenge facing Johnson before this year’s elections, but it’s been snarled not only by the internal…
- Reuters
North Korea's foreign minister leaves for Russia, embassy in Pyongyang says
"Russian Ambassador (Alexander Ivanovich) Matsegora saw off North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui at the Pyongyang International Airport," the embassy said in a post on its Vkontakte social network. The embassy said that the minister's speeches and participation in discussions are planned at the forum, which will take place Sept. 18 to 20.
- Wales Online
Cardiff Parkway project would give a £5bn boost to the Welsh economy
The Welsh Government is still to make a planning decision on the new train station and integrated business park at St Mellons on the outskirts of Cardiff
- Associated Press
Do you know the 3 branches of US government? Many don't, leading to a push for civics education
On the first day of his American National Government class, Prof. Kevin Dopf asks how many of his students are United States citizens. “So, how did all you people become citizens?” he asks. Based on his years of making his students at the University of South Carolina Beaufort take the test given to immigrants seeking U.S. citizenship, most would be rejected.
- Oxford Mail
Police officer resigns after stealing £2.50 to pay off tuck shop debt
A misconduct hearing found that a former police officer who stole £2.50 to pay off his tuck shop debt would have been dismissed if he had not resigned.
- Evening Standard
David Lammy sounds alarm on global warming 'accelerating towards us' as thousands flee central Europe floods
In Poland, Prime Minister Donald Tusk declared a disaster in flooded areas
- CNN
PA Gov. Josh Shapiro: ‘JD Vance should be ashamed of himself’
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro tells CNN’s Dana Bash that “people’s lives are at risk because of JD Vance” after his unverified claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio.
- CNN
Speaker Johnson navigates Trump and a narrow majority in government funding fight
Speaker Mike Johnson is once again facing a major challenge as he navigates a government funding fight while under pressure from an extremely narrow majority in the House and former President Donald Trump.