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  • 2 days ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

    In the chaos of government, few weeks are ever truly make or break. But for Britain’s chancellor Rachel Reeves, the lead-up to the spending review on 11 June is beginning to feel like it might be one of them. It is a huge moment not just for her but also for the majority of cabinet ministers, who are waiting with bated breath to see how much money their departments will be allocated for the next few years and thus what they’ll be able to do while in office.

  • 1 week ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

    The two-child benefit cap has lingered in British politics for almost a decade. What was once seen as a settled legacy of austerity is now at the centre of an intensifying debate that could reshape the welfare state. The Conservative-era policy that parents can only claim child tax credit — a means-tested benefit to help with the cost of raising a child — for their first two children affects the lives of hundreds of thousands of families.

  • 2 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

    After more than 18 months of brutal war in Gaza, this week saw a huge shift in western diplomacy towards Israel. The UK prime minister Keir Starmer, French president Emmanuel Macron and Canadian premier Mark Carney told Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, in unequivocal terms, that they were not happy with Israel’s conduct. The three leaders, in a joint letter, warned that the decision to let in a “basic quantity of food” after an 11-week siege was “wholly inadequate”.

  • 3 weeks ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

    For 15 years, prime ministers have stood before the public and made firm promises to bring net migration down — only to watch the numbers rise instead. David Cameron pledged in 2010 to reduce net migration to the “tens of thousands”; today, it sits at more than 700,000, nearly three times the figure it was when Cameron first stepped into Downing Street. Every prime minister since then has repeated the promise and none have delivered.

  • 1 month ago | hyphenonline.com | Shehab Khan

    Successive British governments have been talking up the economic promise of a post-Brexit Britain for years, one in which the UK is free to strike independent trade deals across the globe. Among those potential deals, few have loomed larger than India: forecast to become the world’s fourth-largest economy in 2025, a rising geopolitical power, and home to a rapidly growing middle class hungry for high-quality goods.

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Shehab Khan ITV
Shehab Khan ITV @ShehabKhan
14 May 25

RT @ShehabKhan: I've written about it here: https://t.co/9daQocYnxd

Shehab Khan ITV
Shehab Khan ITV @ShehabKhan
12 May 25

PM says high immigration hasn't delivered growth in recent years. Genuine question: has there been modelling on what UK output would’ve been in the last few years if we had lower net migration in that period? Would it be the same? Lower? Higher?

Shehab Khan ITV
Shehab Khan ITV @ShehabKhan
9 May 25

RT @onlinehyphen: After years of slow and often difficult negotiations, a free trade agreement between the UK and India has finally been st…