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Today’s news summary – Paper Talk: Tories face 1997-style wipeout Many of Monday’s front pages lead on domestic matters after…

Britain is sending 20,000 sailors, soldiers and aviators close to Russia’s borders in Nato’s biggest military exercise since the Cold War.

Most of Sunday’s front pages continue their coverage of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East as they note the grim 100-day milestone. 

I am hugely concerned about what precedent this is setting for British democracy, and the wider destabilisation in the Middle East.

In Review: Inside the Post Office Scandal The Post Office scandal has dominated the British news over the past few…

Since the release of the ITV drama – Mr Bates vs The Post Office – there have been widespread discussions…

Is PMQs on today? PM faces Starmer as Post Office scandal dominates Prime Minister’s Questions is back today, marking the…

Wanting a cheaper holiday is not a valid excuse to take children out of school, Labour warned yesterday.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has set an election date (sort of) ruling out an election in the first half of the year – that’s his “working assumption” anyway. 

The phrase “working assumption” does give Sunak wriggle room should circumstances change, and he has not ruled out a spring election.

But experts suggest a Mid-November election is most likely and with the Tories still trailing behind Labour by around 20 points in the polls, the longer Sunak can drag the year out, the better chance it’ll be for him. 

Polling suggests that despite the Tory noise around immigration, it’s the economy and the NHS that are the two top concerns for the British public.

‘Everyone has been shocked by watching what they have done over the past few days and beyond and it is an appalling miscarriage of justice.’