✍️ 'Labour’s delicate response to a terrible idea exposes the leader’s biggest weakness' | Writes Kate Andrews

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Labour had an opportunity this week to boost its pragmatic credentials and prepare (and excite!) the country for a house building boom. They blew it.

Today's Telegraph Business column 👇

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Guys, you can just disagree with him

number of international students paying deposits to study at UK universities has “plummeted” after Sunak put restrictions on education visas

Enroly said deposits to a sample of 24 British universities had declined 57% year-on-year as of May

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Britain’s economy has both Labour and the Tories tongue-tied.

Today’s Telegraph Business column 👇

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'Forecasters are taking the news as an indication that the UK economy’s performance this year could be better than anticipated'

✍️ Kate Andrews

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Genuine asylum seekers. People who have experienced levels of abuse and persecution that we cannot fathom, who have no formalised route to the UK except to show up.

They will be put on planes to Rwanda with no pathway back.

Goodbye recession.

Details on Coffee House 👇

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🗣 ‘Who seriously says that taxation is tyranny?’

📺 Kate Andrews (Kate Andrews) and Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on what ‘the right’ really believes about taxes

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'Whether a summer rate cut is delivered in June or August will have big implications – not least for the government, which is banking on economic improvements this summer that allow voters to feel a bit better off.'

✍️ Kate Andrews
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Andrew Bailey's comments about today's rate hold were more optimistic than the MPC's minutes. But whether a cut comes in June or August - or September - could make a very big (political) difference.

Details on Coffee House 👇

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👀 Penny Mordaunt: “I am not about to defect to the opposition benches. They wouldn't be interested in me - I'm too left wing”

Still no real progress on bringing down England's NHS waiting list.

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Slavoj Žižek: My Britney Spears Theory of Action. spectator.co.uk/article/my-bri…

Great article from Annabel Denham — on Coffee House now 👇

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Conservatives (conservatives!) want to open the can of worms of sectoral minimum wages, having govt mandate higher pay in a labor intensive, low productivity sector where demand is surging due to an ageing population. Just to stop foreigners doing the care. #WarOnPrices

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🗞️ Drama students: universities have raised a generation of activists, writes Yascha Mounk

✍️ In the mag:

• A dispatch from the protest camps
• Slavoj Zizek: why Taylor Swift provokes fury
• Plum Sykes: ‘People don’t want to be Meghan Markle’

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