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]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/70a9fed5-b7a9-4663-89fa-c43a5b79acd6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">70a9fed5-b7a9-4663-89fa-c43a5b79acd6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform UK loosens vetting criteria for candidates ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Populist party adopts ‘common sense’ approach and welcomes previously rejected applicants ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/0c18b032-6ed0-489b-b4a2-99173fab01a4</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0c18b032-6ed0-489b-b4a2-99173fab01a4</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:39:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Starmer’s next fight with his MPs: special needs funding in schools ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Charities say ministers must learn lessons of welfare fiasco if prime minister is to avoid another climbdown  ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/482da0f5-c4e0-436b-9b71-da9198b4fab8</link><guid 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19:52:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[London to lose out in UK government spending review, says City Hall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mayor Sadiq Khan has been pressing chancellor Rachel Reeves for more transport funding]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/90073619-30e3-4517-99ed-c63570b0ad7a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">90073619-30e3-4517-99ed-c63570b0ad7a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 12:45:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Facing down a fiscal firestorm]]></title><description><![CDATA[A look ahead to the spending review ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/892d781d-44c3-47e1-aad7-88a964ce2997</link><guid isPermaLink="false">892d781d-44c3-47e1-aad7-88a964ce2997</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 13:56:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reeves vows to reinstate some winter fuel payments this year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chancellor also rules out raising income tax, VAT or employee national insurance ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a60f5c91-058e-40fb-aeef-0db3113bf475</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a60f5c91-058e-40fb-aeef-0db3113bf475</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:20:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Labour forced to postpone £5,000-a-head business conference]]></title><description><![CDATA[Speakers were to include chancellor Rachel Reeves and business and trade secretary Jonathan Reynolds]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/cbb18737-a5ff-49dd-b226-162c498f350d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">cbb18737-a5ff-49dd-b226-162c498f350d</guid><pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:00:42 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reeves to back Manchester-Liverpool rail link in transport spending boost]]></title><description><![CDATA[Chancellor lines up £113bn infrastructure investment package as part of next week’s government spending review]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/9e2dba53-1fb9-46b0-8900-c6b251e3db26</link><guid 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But they seek government funding to make the projects work]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b49e569a-179f-4c8f-a2d7-f759c821c436</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b49e569a-179f-4c8f-a2d7-f759c821c436</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform UK inherits a financial firestorm in English councils ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Party faces familiar problem of finding large-scale savings while avoiding unpopular choices]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/9d5f7c54-44f7-43d8-8dbb-d6b55c818e83</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9d5f7c54-44f7-43d8-8dbb-d6b55c818e83</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 16:00:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Police arrest man after car hits pedestrians at Liverpool Football Club parade]]></title><description><![CDATA[Merseyside force says incident is not being treated as terrorism after PM Keir Starmer describes scenes as ‘appalling’ ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/eaad9177-5cf1-46fd-b09b-cdb8cf68a031</link><guid isPermaLink="false">eaad9177-5cf1-46fd-b09b-cdb8cf68a031</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 22:58:40 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform UK’s first week running local government]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rightwing populist group has inherited acute financial crises after election wins across England]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ef262672-eeca-4af4-9d73-15faea4012c6</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ef262672-eeca-4af4-9d73-15faea4012c6</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 04:00:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keir Starmer makes U-turn on winter fuel payments]]></title><description><![CDATA[UK prime minister tells MPs he wants ‘more pensioners’ to receive the benefit]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/9761affa-6c67-4396-baa7-35424051865f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9761affa-6c67-4396-baa7-35424051865f</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 18:52:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reform mayor backs pro-green investment partnership]]></title><description><![CDATA[Luke Campbell joins northern partnership with clean energy focus despite party’s anti-net zero stance ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/973da1ee-0866-4d56-bf1b-b4b04a1a7d7a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">973da1ee-0866-4d56-bf1b-b4b04a1a7d7a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 17:15:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK growth plan ‘cannot rest’ on south-east projects alone, says Blunkett]]></title><description><![CDATA[Labour grandee calls for increase in infrastructure spending in the north as mayors lobby for investment]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/f92f1be0-9952-4e59-8099-65ebcf015df9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f92f1be0-9952-4e59-8099-65ebcf015df9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 23:01:10 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experts sent in to rescue debt-laden local authority in northern England]]></title><description><![CDATA[Inspectors find Warrington council does not ‘recognise severity of the issues it faces’]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/e5024825-402e-48db-8b3f-74af3faaaa64</link><guid isPermaLink="false">e5024825-402e-48db-8b3f-74af3faaaa64</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 16:15:15 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What are Reform UK’s main policies?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Following sweeping local election victories there is intense scrutiny of the rightwing party’s platform]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/c3b25079-f394-4a40-84af-2c11fa0f6338</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c3b25079-f394-4a40-84af-2c11fa0f6338</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 11:00:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Nigel Farage has gained ground with trade union members]]></title><description><![CDATA[Local elections cement union concerns about Labour’s traditional base pivoting to populist right]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/99f22666-c2f0-4485-aa86-317b7fd9575c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">99f22666-c2f0-4485-aa86-317b7fd9575c</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 16:35:14 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Farage claims transformation of British politics as Reform makes major gains]]></title><description><![CDATA[Widespread local election wins raise prospect of populist party becoming Labour’s main opposition]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/db93435f-2d41-4abc-b84d-5d7fa9bb9b45</link><guid isPermaLink="false">db93435f-2d41-4abc-b84d-5d7fa9bb9b45</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 17:49:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hitler memes and calls to ‘nuke Islam’: Reform UK’s patchy efforts to clean up its candidates ]]></title><description><![CDATA[People in Nigel Farage’s party say changes to vetting process are bearing fruit ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/1ff8e6cd-27e0-43ac-9665-d869a5f306de</link><guid 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Our local elections guide]]></title><description><![CDATA[Plus, Starmer pivots to patriotism]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a06e0bc5-44df-46bc-be33-8eb38fba5d3e</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a06e0bc5-44df-46bc-be33-8eb38fba5d3e</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:48:13 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Need more joined up thinking on the north]]></title><description><![CDATA[Also in this week’s newsletter, regional disparities in the government’s ‘growth spending’]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/af6e00a2-9da6-49e6-8c8d-e6e95bcfc845</link><guid isPermaLink="false">af6e00a2-9da6-49e6-8c8d-e6e95bcfc845</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:01:31 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>