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Can Labour save the economy? Rachel Reeves speech analysed
Krishnan Guru-Murthy and guests analyse Rachel Reeves’s speech in this episode of The Political Fourcast live from the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
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Stagnation and decline if government doesn’t boost investment, warn leading economists
Rachel Reeves has been warned that she needs to “substantially increase” government investment to avoid “a vicious circle of stagnation and decline”.
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‘Ukraine has the right to defend itself…that includes striking on Russian soil’, says German ambassador to UK
Germany has supported Ukraine from the beginning of the war despite its industries relying heavily on cheap Russian gas.
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Should people be scared of being sick? We ask the health secretary
We sat down with the health secretary Wes Streeting and started the interview by putting it to him that we won’t find out what the NHS reforms will really look like until next year’s Spending Review.
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‘We need to keep people safe this winter’, says Labour MP critical of winter fuel cuts
We spoke to Rachael Maskell who is a Labour MP who has led criticism of the planned cuts and says she plans to abstain.
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Early release plan a ‘desperate measure’, says union representing probation staff
We spoke to Ian Lawrence, General Secretary of NAPO, the union representing probation staff.
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Exclusive: Some sex offenders to get early release from prison under government plans warn whistleblowers
Some serious sexual offenders and other violent criminals will be released under Labour’s prisoner early release scheme despite government assurances that serious crimes would be excluded from the policy, Channel 4 News understands.
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FactCheck: the probation service has been working over capacity every month since January 2023
Some 2,000 prisoners are set to be released in a single day next week.
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Germany’s far-right party AfD wins regional election
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has urged mainstream parties not to side with the far-right Alternative for Germany ‘AfD’ party.
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Far-right win German state election for the first time
Alternative for Germany (AfD), comes first in the state of Thuringia as mainstream parties pledge to keep the populist far-right party out of office.
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FactCheck: who will no longer get Winter Fuel Payments and who is eligible for pension credit?
The government has changed the rules on who will receive Winter Fuel Payments.
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Has child neglect been ‘normalised’ in the UK?
The UK’s leading children’s charity is warning that child neglect could become a national crisis, fuelled by the cost of living crisis and cuts in support services.
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Starmer rules out Brexit reversal but promises to ‘reset’ relations with EU
The Prime Minister has set out what he called a major reset in Britain’s relationship with Europe as he held talks with the German Chancellor in Berlin.
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Starmer proclaims British-German treaty but will it bear fruit?
Britain and Germany will start work on a “bilateral cooperation treaty” to deepen relations across a range of topics from migration to defence and trade. Unlikely to radically change existing British-German positions, both leaders hope it might at least provide an economic boost.
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Starmer under pressure from some of his MPs to scrap two-child benefits limit
The political row escalated in July when seven Labour MPs had the whip suspended after they rebelled and voted for an SNP amendment to the King’s Speech, calling for the two-child limit to be scrapped.