The Times reports, external the Chancellor Rachel Reeves told the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) that she plans to increase income tax. The Guardian leads, external with the comments from Labour's deputy leader, Lucy Powell, that the party should stand by its commitment not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT. Tim Davie must "explain or quit", is the message from Boris Johnson to the BBC director general in the Daily Telegraph, external. According to the Times, external, a cabinet colleague has described as "cowardly" the justice secretary David Lammy's handling of a row about the mistaken release of inmates from prison. The Daily Telegraph says , externalthe images were "damning", with a "huge cordon of police vans, Jewish people corralled behind wire mesh and a marauding hoard of pro-Palestinian disruptors".

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Rachel Reeves billed her £38 billion in tax increases last year – the biggest tax-rising Budget since Black Wednesday – as a ‘one and done’ approach. Reeves is increasingly expected to hike income tax by 2p next month. Reeves is increasingly expected to increase hike tax by 2p next monthReeves could change her plans, but its inclusion is a strong signal that she will break Labour’s manifesto pledge not to increase income tax rates. There are countless clips, tweets and statements of Reeves and her colleagues repeatedly insisting that Labour would not raise income tax, from before, during and after the election. Lucy Powell, the newly-elected deputy leader, told the BBC yesterday that Labour should stand by its manifesto commitment not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT.

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William travelled to the South American country to stage his Earthshot Prize in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday and the following day gave a landmark speech at the Cop30 UN Climate Change summit in Belem, a city in the Amazon. He told delegates, including Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer: “Where Indigenous people and local communities have secured land rights, deforestation is lower, biodiversity is richer, and carbon is better stored. It aims to help indigenous, Afro-descendant, and local communities secure ancestral land rights, enabling them to protect critical natural ecosystems for generations to come. Earlier this week the prince pledged to back those “standing up and defending nature” with a new fund covering indigenous advocates protecting the Amazon. In his speech at Cop30, William said: “At London Climate Action Week, I convened governments, philanthropists, and Indigenous leaders to issue a Call to Action – for land tenure and forest finance pledges to be delivered at Cop30 here in Brazil.

Private John Parr was killed in a skirmish with German troops in Belgium on August 21, 1914, when he was just 17. A Tommy silhouette sculpture had been installed previously — but was uprooted by thieves in 2024. “It was deeply saddening to hear about the theft of the Tommy sculpture,” said Barnet mayor Cllr Danny Rich. Martin Russell, the King’s representative Deputy Lieutenant of the London Borough of Barnet, said: “John Parr was the first of many local lads to die in the Great War. “Regrettably this silhouette was damaged and illegally removed last year.”Plaque to John Parr... first soldier killed in 1914 (Image: Barnet LB)The new bench bears a plaque saying: “Remembering Private John Parr and other local dead of the Great War.

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Friday November 07 2025, 11.10am ,Britain’s military is officially preparing for a possible war in Europe. Britain has not embarked on a defence strategy like this since the Cold War ended over thirty years ago. But Britain’s defence chiefs are deeply uneasy about something else: whether everything from cash machines to the health service, government systems and control of our airspace could be kept going. For three decades, we’ve assumed that a full-scale war wouldn’t reach our shores, and because of that we don’t have clear answers to some very uncomfortable questions. And how would we even find and train enough troops to keep fighting if things truly escalated?