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PM Liz Truss will face MPs on Wednesday at noon for her first PMQs since Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-budget caused chaos in the financial markets. 

Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers have to wait until demonstrations meet a legal threshold of disruption before they can be shut down. Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said officers have to wait until demonstrations meet a legal threshold of disruption before they can be shut down.

Campaigners say emergency response to fuel poverty risks shifting focus away from government responsibility Scotland’s leading anti-poverty campaigners are urging councils and communities “not to repeat past mistakes” by allowing “warm banks” – for those unable to afford heating their homes over the winter months – to become as entrenched as food banks. The plea was made in a joint statement from the Poverty Alliance, Trussell Trust Scotland and the Cyrenians that cautions that emergency responses to escalating fuel poverty, however well-intentioned, risk shifting the focus away from government responsibility to ensure all citizens are able to heat their homes.…

THE SNP’s Ian Blackford was shut down by Liz Truss during a fiery clash in Prime Minister’s Questions over energy security. ​THE SNP’s Ian Blackford was shut down by Liz Truss during a fiery clash in Prime Minister’s Questions over energy security.

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The National Education Union wants a 5% offer to be increased. The National Education Union wants a 5% offer to be increased.

Economic confidence in UK seriously undermined by Kwarteng and Truss’s ‘guerrilla tactics’, Commons committee hears Today’s political news – live updates Senior economists have dismissed Liz Truss’s chances of reaching 2.5% economic growth in the next few years, as they said her government’s “guerrilla tactics” in last month’s mini-budget played a major role in spooking markets. Speaking to the Commons Treasury committee, the economists said the 2.5% growth target was “almost impossible”. The committee has launched its own investigation into the mini-budget in the absence of a formal forecast from the Office for Budget Responsibility. Continue reading… ​Economic confidence in…

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Liz Truss smacked down Labour leader Keir Starmer for questioning if she will make cuts to public spending. ​Liz Truss smacked down Labour leader Keir Starmer for questioning if she will make cuts to public spending.