
Pippa Crerar
Political Editor at The Guardian
Political Editor, The Guardian @pippacrerar.bsky.social
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4 days ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar |Kiran Stacey |Axel Kacoutié
Keir Starmer promised to make Britain ‘battle-ready’ as he announced the government’s defence spending plans. But what does that actually look like? And how will the government pay for it? Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss the strategic defence review and ask: is the UK really ready for war? Plus, they look ahead to next week’s spending review.
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1 week ago |
msn.com | Pippa Crerar |Jessica Elgot
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar |Jessica Elgot
The government-backed child poverty taskforce is likely to recommend the return of early years service Sure Start, the Guardian understands, though there are doubts in government about whether it could be funded. Senior ministers including Rachel Reeves, Liz Kendall and Bridget Phillipson have praised the service in the past, citing it as one of the crowning achievements of the last Labour government.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar
Labour’s flagship child poverty strategy has been delayed until at least the autumn amid concerns at the top of government that the financial cost of key proposals outweighs the political benefit, even though tens of thousands more children will fall into poverty as a result.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Pippa Crerar
Keir Starmer has announced a partial U-turn that would make more pensioners eligible for winter fuel payments, as government figures opened the door for more tweaks to controversial policies. After a major backlash against one of the most unpopular measures announced by the Labour government, the prime minister indicated he would look again at the £11,500 threshold over which pensioners are no longer eligible for the allowance.
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Keir Starmer sums up his approach to government in five words: "Serious pragmatism defeats performative politics".

Car export tariffs cut from 27.5% to 10% for 100k yearly quota, almost total UK export last year. Steel tariffs cut from 25% to zero. New reciprocal market access on beef – with UK farmers given tariff free quota for 13k metric tonnes. No 10 insists no weakening of food

EXCL: More than 40 Labour MPs have warned the prime minister that planned disability cuts are “impossible to support” and have called for a pause and change in direction @jessicaelgot reveals https://t.co/1aeGGbheKa