If No 10 briefer is found Keir Starmer will sack them, Miliband says 13. November 2025 (10:49) Cabinet minister says PM would not have backed attacks on Wes Streeting but briefing is ‘longstanding aspect of politics’UK politics live – latest updatesEd Miliband has said he was certain Keir Starmer would sack whoever had briefed against Wes Streeting, after a chaotic 48 hours in which No 10 launched an operation to shore up the prime minister against an anticipated leadership challenge.The prime minister apologised to the health secretary in a phone call with him late on Wednesday. Starmer is facing mounting calls to sack his chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, over the row. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Latest Epstein emails cast further doubt on Andrew’s claim of cutting ties 13. November 2025 (10:15) Messages sent months after former prince said he ended relations and also appear to confirm Virginia Giuffre photoNewly released Jeffrey Epstein emails have cast further doubt on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s account of when he cut ties with the child sex offender and his denials about meeting his accuser Virginia Giuffre.In March 2011, four months after he later claimed to have ended his relationship with Epstein, the former prince told him and the convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell: “I can’t take any more of this,” in response to allegations put to him by the Mail on Sunday. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Amid disappointing UK growth, how can Rachel Reeves escape the doom loop? 13. November 2025 (10:01) Stronger finances require a stronger economy, but budget tax rises and spending cuts could squeeze activity further• Business live – latest updates• Economy grew by just 0.1% in third quarter amid hit from JLR cyber-attackRachel Reeves’s autumn budget is not simple: Britain’s economy is misfiring and things need turning around fast. Yet a fiscal consolidation on the scale the chancellor is expected to require could push in exactly the opposite direction.The latest figures from the economy are hardly encouraging. Growth slowed from 0.3% in the second quarter to just 0.1% in the third, driven down in part by the cyber-attack on Jaguar Land Rover. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
