Improving relations on security and trade at heart of Thursday’s Blenheim Palace gathering
Pro-Palestine grouping seeks to push Sir Keir Starmer on Gaza stance and UK arms sales to Israel
Forget the critics, the deputy prime minister is the most relatable MP I’ve ever seen
Prime minister promotes several newcomers straight into junior front bench roles
Also in this newsletter: Wall Street profits, Amazon union vote, science round-up
More than half of Sir Keir Starmer’s top team have criticised current Republican candidate in recent years
From packed prisons to closed police stations and courts, law and order is in retreat
Labour to shorten automatic release point for some prisoners from 50% to 40% of sentence
Plus, the FT’s William Wallis on the state of the UK’s dangerously overcrowded prisons
Incident off French coast reflects rise in hazardous small boat crossings this year
Labour bill to axe hereditary peers from UK’s upper chamber to feature in monarch’s address next week
Party’s manifesto commitment to end child poverty piles pressure on government to act
Bills are rising across the country and the UK’s biggest water company is in special measures
The chancellor’s mission to stoke economic growth faces dire headwinds, and might call for harsh trade-offs
Nigel Farage’s vow to build a ‘national movement’ rings alarm bells after slew of second-place election results
Power generator RWE says government risks securing ‘less than half’ of new capacity needed under current support scheme
Political bloc struggles to rally behind a united message and broaden its appeal
Politics loves a winner but counterparts around the world face the perils of incumbency
It would be naive to see the UK as immune to this phenomenon; Reform UK is not yet ready
UK chancellor seeks to establish government’s drive for higher economic growth as a ‘national mission’
Data released ahead of Labour announcement on freeing more prisoners to ease overcrowding
The UK government has also pulled support from a Cumbrian coal mine
Reform UK’s leader had previously hosted a show but stepped down when the election was called
Policy affected record 1.6mn children in the year to April 2024, according to new data
Also in this week’s newsletter, the government’s plans to ‘get Britain building’