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PM to bolster Downing Street at expense of Cabinet Office

PM plans to cut a fifth of the civil service, or 91,000 jobs, within three years

A round-up of the headlines from the UK front pages

Conclusion of police investigation paves way for senior civil servant’s Partygate report to be published

The Queen makes a surprise visit to Paddington Station to open new line

Watt absent from ‘Wagatha Christie’ libel trial after being accused of doing her client’s ‘dirty work’

Jet left Scottish airport after flights were banned between UK and Russia

Home secretary proposing to curb mayoral influence over Met hiring and firing decisions

The government was elected in 2019 on an ‘unrealistic’ pledge to build 300,000 homes a year

Sources say chancellor may bring forward 1p income tax cut roll as inflation hits 40-year high

Conservative Party bracing for further sexual misconduct allegations

New cases of the rare virus appear to have been contracted in London

‘Toxic combination’ of factors make Britain especially vulnerable to economic pain

Spike in deadly attacks blamed on ‘impulse purchases through lockdown’

The government announced earlier this month it would send £1.3bn in military support to war-torn country

Proposal for upper house to move out of London causes a stir

Blackpool forward, 17, is the UK’s only openly gay male professional footballer

Speculation mounting that Labour and the Lib Dems will agree a joint anti-Tory strategy

A one-off levy could fund measures to ease the cost-of-living crisis, says Labour

Former health secretary said he ‘doesn’t rule out a return in the future’

A look at how the jubilee will be celebrated over the bank holiday in June

Boris Johnson visits Belfast in a bid to end political deadlock

Policies rooted in imperialism policies influence today’s tax and trade systems and even the wine we drink

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Some would ‘do well to rethink their whole relationship to smartphones and social media’

Washington delegation heading to UK amid stand-off over post-Brexit trade plan

PM orders civil service ‘bloodbath’ to ease cost-of-living crisis

Delays in the delivery of two new CalMac passenger ferries have caused a major political scandal

Research showing MPs more likely to drink excessively has fuelled concern about Parliament’s ‘poisonous’ drinking dens

UK government to propose scrapping parts of the post-Brexit plans for trade

Ministers accused of ‘tone-deaf media interviews’ amid cost-of-living crisis

Concerns raised about whether Prince of Wales would continue to interfere in politics as monarch

Labour shadow attorney general accuses Tories of a smear campaign against Keir Starmer