Striking unions “are running out of money” | Speculation over new Covid travel restrictions | Blair backed a seat for Putin at the “top table” | Tax increases “will mean biggest income squeeze in a century”
Sunak ‘urged’ to speed up’ new anti-strike laws as rail chaos continues | ‘Cabinet row’ between Gove and Braverman holds up publication of Prevent counterterrorism review | May ‘backs Holyrood’ against Westminster gender bill interference | Rees-Mogg ‘considers running to be next Tory leader’ and ‘could make a bid’ if they lose the next election
NHS 1) Sunak told care system at risk of collapse if workers not paid as much as nurses | NHS 2) Ministers plan to scrap targets to ‘boost efficiency’ | Gove declares war on ‘eyesore’ urban planning blighting towns and cities | Labour attacks delays to online safety bill as it highlights Christmas scams
The Government ‘threatens to block’ Scottish gender recognition law | Asylum seekers get 10 per cent cost of living boost, after Braverman loses high court case | Badenoch joins the EU in criticising Biden’s green subsidies package | Fraser Nelson: There’s a good case against hiking NHS pay. The Tories aren’t making it
Strikes 1) Teachers should be happy with their pay, says Education Secretary | Strikes 2) Military morale hit as ministers increasingly turn to army to fill civilian roles | Braverman ‘considering housing asylum seekers in cruise ships’ | Raab floats data law exemption for journalists
The Prime Minister ‘remains tight-lipped’ over Rwanda targets | Unions have made conscious choice to ‘inflict harm’ on patients, says Barclay | Spencer announces new fishing deal with the EU | 15-year-old children will be able to begin process of changing gender under SNP trans law
Braverman restates Rwanda deportation goal after court ruling | Britain isn’t a racist country – it’s resilient, says Sunak | Hunt to deliver next UK Budget in March | Starmer accused of ‘staining House of Lords benches’ after Watson is sworn in
The Prime Minister rallies European allies to send more support to Kyiv | Hunt ‘freezes booze duty’ until August in ‘a welcome U-turn’ | Dowden promises nurses a ‘pay rise at a later date’ if they call off Christmas strikes | ‘Fake grass crackdown’ planned by Gove in ‘war on plastic’
Sunak accuses Lynch of being the “Grinch” who stole Christmas | Military not ‘sufficiently trained’ to cover NHS strikes, unions say | Prime Minister scraps Truss’s long-term energy deal taskforce | Shapps launches campaign advising people how to save money this winter
Labour wins Stretford and Urmston in ‘second electoral test’ for Sunak as Prime Minister | He holds talks with Stormont leaders on first visit to Northern Ireland in his role | Downing Street denies the UK’s chief nurse ‘speaks for the Government’ as she joins the picket line | Health insurance should be considered to help pay for the NHS, says Javid
Strikes 1) Nurse strike marks tragic day for patients, says union chief | Strikes 2) Rail showdown talks planned as country comes to a standstill | Strikes 3) Sunak eyes laws that he vows will ‘protect lives and livelihoods’ | The polite radical: the Prime Minister on economic repair, migrants and faith
UK inflation ‘eases’ to 10.7 per cent as annual rate of price increases slows | The Prime Minister pledges to ‘fix appalling asylum farce’ and vows to ‘swiftly’ detain and send back those arriving in the UK illegally | Steve Barclay: My door is open to nursing leaders but my priority is to keep people safe this winter | Labour ‘would have’ 314 majority if general election was held now, a poll suggests
Last-minute talks to halt nurse strike break down | Strike support threshold could be raised to 50pc | ‘Tide is turning’ against rail unions, says Harper | Sunak will unveil crackdown to tackle asylum case backlog
Nurses union wants talks with Health Secretary | Drafting in troops ‘won’t prevent NHS strike chaos’ | The economy shrank over last quarter – despite October recovery | Streeting’s criticism of the BMA prompts Labour row
Sunak puts Brexit bill ‘on ice’ as hopes rise of EU deal | He is planning to ‘seize control’ of the Channel migrants crisis as Red Wall MPs are ‘losing patience’ | Barclay says NHS strikes ‘pose a significant risk to patients’ as up to 100,000 nurses ‘prepare to walk out’ this week | Daniel Hannan: First Gordon Brown broke the constitution – now he wants to see it burn