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Angela Rayner’s pledge to resign if she is found to have broken the law has dramatically raised the stakes, writes Freddie Hayward. newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

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“He met with Donald Trump, whose policies he once described as ‘divisive, stupid and wrong’. But he was not welcomed on the Hill. He was snubbed by House speaker and Trump ally Mike Johnson.”

📫 Today’s Morning Call with Freddie Hayward
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“Or maybe Amy Winehouse would have been cancelled long ago, for saying something naughty about .”

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Will Angela Rayner’s gamble pay off? Freddie Hayward on the Labour deputy leader’s dramatic intervention. newstatesman.com/politics/labou…

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“Calls for prosecutions for tax evasion were silly when we were talking about Nadhim Zahawi; they’re plain daft when we’re talking about Angela Rayner.”

🖊️ Dan Neidle
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'I've been accused of being a misogynist Tory shill and a Labour puppet.'

Great piece by tax expert Dan Neidle showing his workings on the Angela Rayner council house capital gains tax story:

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“It is impossible to see Humza Yousaf as anything other than an underwhelming full-stop to the long era of SNP hegemony.”

🖊️ Chris Deerin newstatesman.com/politics/scotl…

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“On the gruelling journey back down, she met a fellow climber dying of altitude sickness.”

🖊️ Rachel Cunliffe
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“The question now is whether Rayner’s own gamble pays off. She seems confident that it will.”

Analysis:
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What single thing would make your life better?

If Keir Starmer was struck by lightning and it created a functioning spine.

❓ The NS Q&A, with Josie Long manifesting the baby sleeping through
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“Thames Water enjoys a natural monopoly; its 16 million customers in London and the south-east have no alternative provider. Only a dismal combination of greed and incompetence made the present crisis possible.”

🔴 This week’s New Statesman leader
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He was revered by Dickens, Darwin and George Eliot. Yet he also wrote about slavery in ways, as the guide in Cheyne Row cheerfully puts it, “that would probably get you prosecuted now”.

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“It’s exactly the kind of market failure governments exist for,” she insisted. “They have to see the vision of the future.”

🗣️ Rachel Cunliffe meets Ruth Herbert
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“David Cameron beguiled some last week with a mildly competent social media post.”

📫 Today’s Morning Call with Freddie Hayward
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“Starmer wants defence procurement to be seen as a domestic economic issue. There is a growing internal lobby for the party to commit itself to raising defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP quickly.”

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The Angela Rayner investigation: scandal or smear campaign?

Anoosh Chakelian and Freddie Hayward discuss on The New Statesman Podcast 🎧 newstatesman.com/podcasts/2024/…

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“Rayner’s response was not correct and suggested to me that she hadn’t received tax advice at the time, and may have misunderstood the position.”

🖊️ Dan Neidle
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On the latest The New Statesman Podcast episode, we answer listeners' questions!

Hannah Barnes joins Freddie Hayward and me to discuss the political implications of the Cass Review findings - and we analyse how special a Starmer-Trump relationship could be...

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