Arj Singh
Deputy Political Editor, The i Paper
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- EXC: Home Office push to widen one-in, one-out migrant returns deal likely to be rebuffed by Germany in a blow to Labour inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- 'Rayner's back in the game': Inside the de facto Labour leadership race inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- EXC Revealed: The industries caught employing the most illegal workers inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Exc: UK universities face £580m Brexit reset bill if EU students get discounted fees - British negotiators urged not to give way inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- EXC: Majority of voters want Keir Starmer replaced as PM now, new poll suggests inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Exc: Home Office set to step up deportations to Syria in the coming months despite safety fears inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Eating out and hotel stays to cost more from April inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- The hidden flaws in Home Office migration plan, from tax rises to care shortages inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Greenland deal includes a multinational Nato force as first reported by @theipaper.com this week as part of the 'off-ramp' for Trump: inews.co.uk/news/politic... inews.co.uk/news/raf-nav... inews.co.uk/news/us-invi...
- EXC RAF and Navy in talks to join Nato force in Greenland inews.co.uk/news/raf-nav...
- UK plots Nato security deal in Arctic to stop Trump trade war inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- EXC Starmer ignored No 10 advice not to link digital ID to small boats or make it mandatory inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- 🪖War could be coming to Europe - and the UK has no plan for the NHS inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- EXC: Home Office to start evicting asylum seekers from hotels in spring Shabana Mahmood will end the Government’s legal duty to automatically support asylum seekers as she looks to close more hotels inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Starmer's leadership rivals plotting softer Brexit, sounding out experts on policy inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- EXC Private school parents face faster fee hikes as VAT to raise £40m extra a year for Rachel Reeves inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Exc: Firefighters threaten nationwide strike over job cuts inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Britain 'left open to attack by emboldened Putin' over £800bn defence shortfall inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Exc: Teachers back Govt move to lift two-child benefit cap, and say it will help them and pupils focus on learning inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- You heard it @theipaper.com first
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- EXC: Operation stop Farage: Polanski would work with Labour to keep Reform out of No 10 - if Starmer is ousted inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- EXC: Operation stop Farage: Polanski would work with Labour to keep Reform out of No 10 - if Starmer is ousted inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Exc: Rail workers should be given free flu jabs to help avert Christmas cancellations and delays, union says inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Brexit EXC: 🎓UK on course to rejoin Erasmus student exchange scheme from January 2027 = EU extends key deadline for universities to participate = Rising hopes on both sides of a deal by Christmas, crunch talks Monday t.co/xWPXRZ7vsC
- Exc: UK stance on an under-30s visa deal with the EU boosted by a major new report which backs a 44k cap on numbers inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- French sources say Starmer, Macron, Merz and Zelensky agreed a plan to bring the US back onside in Ukraine peace talks, amid concerns over Trump’s recent comments
- UK 'entirely unprepared for war' in face of Putin's latest threats, triggering calls for even higher defence spending inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Exc: Treasury to host briefing to placate Labour MPs on 'pub tax' as some call for a climbdown from Rachel Reeves inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- 🚨UK-EU weapons fund talks collapse in blow to Brexit reset and economy inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- EXC Brexit reset negotiations: 🧑🎓EU considers softening uni fees demand to get youth mobility deal over the line 🪖UK counter-offer on Safe rearmament proposes pay-per-project rather than pay billions up front inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Why Britons won't feel better off under Labour inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Rachel Reeves has privately indicated she will not target pension tax relief rates in next week’s Budget inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- 🚨Brexit reset defence deal unravelling as UK threatens to quit talks Defence Sec John Healey tells me Britain will not join EU weapons fund at "any price" inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- 🚨NEW Children face deportation under Mahmood's migration crackdown Home Office to start targeting families with under-18s for removal if their asylum claims fail. Reminder: Farage's Reform rowed back on plans to deport children in August inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- 'F**cking deranged': How No10's bid to squash Streeting for leader backfired Cabinet ministers, Government and party insiders, and MPs on Labour's new civil war inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- 🇬🇧🇪🇺 UK ready to quit crucial Brexit reset defence deal due to EU demanding billions But Brussels thinks London will pay as British defence firms have bids for cash ready to go this month inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- BREAKING Reeves appears to admit she'll break tax pledge from manifesto in Budget inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Exc: Farage's 'gold plated' pension reform plan faces firefighters strike threat inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Councils spending thousands cleaning 'flag wars' graffiti exc by @eleanormia.bsky.social inews.co.uk/news/council...
- Rachel Reeves set to argue manifesto-busting tax rises may be needed to save austerity-hit public services or growth and cost of living will suffer inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Barracks plan to house asylum seekers ‘has been rejected before’ inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Home Office could house migrants in 'Portakabins' in bid to close asylum hotels inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Caerphilly analysis: Labour's by-election humbling signals doom - but Farage has failed too inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- EXC: UK wants to protect Brexit freedoms on gene editing and animal welfare in EU food deal negotiations, official letter shows inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- ‘Voters will go to Reform’: Labour anger as Starmer pushes on with digital ID - big read as MPs return to Parliament inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Big read: Spectre of Farage pushes Tories to the right inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Asylum hotel closures could be be fast-tracked to help Reeves balance books in Budget, Treasury source indicates inews.co.uk/news/politic...
- Support us or make Farage PM, Starmer tells anti-Reform voters Labour campaigners told to “squeeze” moderate voters who fear Farage as PM inews.co.uk/news/politic...
