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  • Chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking at the CBI conference in London on 25 November

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    Russia imposes travel ban on cabinet ministers, calling it retaliation for ‘Russophobic’ policies – UK politics live

  • A man walking near black mud encroaching on houses

    Storm Bert flooded 500 properties in England and Wales

    Welsh first minister to ask UK government for more money to make coal tips safe after Cwmtillery landslip
  • Jane Rubens and her daughter Cat Rubens.

    Axa threatened to cancel cover for Briton with brain injuries in US, says daughter

    Company said Jane Rubens, in a coma after being hit by vehicle on holiday, must be repatriated this week, against advice of neurologists

  • Environmental grants promised to farmers in England frozen

  • Vauxhall owner plans to shut Luton van factory, putting 1,100 jobs at risk

  • Water companies in England ‘using loopholes’ to avoid paying for outages

  • Senior UK bankers will get bonuses years earlier under plan to relax rules

  • Donald Trump’s trade tariffs could cost US consumers $2,400 a year – business live

  • Groups to ask for court ban on UK arms sales to Israel after Netanyahu arrest warrant

  • Mother pays tribute to ‘caring’ girl who died after exiting police vehicle on M5

UK politics

  • Nigel Farage holding his arms wide in front of a Welsh flag

    ‘More straight talking’: How Reform UK is gaining support in Wales

  • aerial view of military base with a long runway on a narrow strip of land surrounded by water

    UK government seeks meeting with Trump team over Chagos Islands agreement

    • Assisted dying could have major impact on courts, says ex-chief justice

    • How the far right is weaponising AI-generated content in Europe

    • Premier League and Channel 4 to train teenagers in Labour’s £45m work drive

    • FCA is ‘incompetent at best, dishonest at worst’, claim MPs and peers

    • Labour poised to announce £100m levy on gambling companies

    • About 20 terminally ill people in UK die in unrelieved pain each day, research finds

Analysis and explainers

  • Aerial image of flooded caravans beside a river

    Storm Bert offers stark reminder of UK’s underfunded flood defences

  • Shipping containers in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China

    Trump’s talk of tariffs raises fears of hit to economies worldwide

  • Profiles of five British men in graphic

    From Egypt to India, five jailed men who feel abandoned by Britain

  • People in masks hold signs including one reading 'the slippery slope is real'

    ‘Slippery slope’ fears over assisted dying have echoes of abortion debate

Culture

  • Rod Stewart performing in 2016.

    Rod Stewart to play Glastonbury 2025 legends slot: ‘I’m more than able to pleasure and titillate’

  • ‘Opera can manifest in so many ways’ … Netia Jones.

    ‘Opera should be an unstoppable art form’: Royal Opera announce Netia Jones as associate director

    The Royal Ballet and Opera have created a new role, allowing Jones to drive development and new commissions
  • Weaving together different narratives … Maryam Tafakory.

    Iranian artist Maryam Tafakory wins the 2024 Film London Jarman award

    Tafakory’s blend of reality and fiction is ‘a compelling exploration of displacement, memory and resistance’ according to the judging panel

  • Humbug: vandal smashes gravestone of Ebenezer Scrooge

  • George Stubbs dog painting expected to reach up to £2m at auction

  • Wales may introduce visitor levy for people staying overnight

  • Britain faces ‘talent drain’ of visual artists as earnings fall by 40% since 2010

Education

  • A boy walking on his own on the way back from school

    Send crisis in England and Wales leaving children more vulnerable, says report

  • Andy Leary-May standing outside Mossbourne Victoria Park academy

    Teachers at top academy in Hackney ‘screamed at’ and humiliated pupils, say angry parents

  • Janet Royall (Baroness Royall of Blaisdon), Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, who is also a candidate in the 2024 University of Oxford Chancellor election. Photographed near to Somerville College (with the new glass-fronted Blavatnik School of Government behind her to the right). Oxford. Photograph by David Levene 20/11/24

    Candidate for first female chancellor of Oxford focuses on student gender gap

  • A staff member helps children

    Children’s development ‘put back by years’ due to failure of special educational needs system

Society

  • The grand victorian building of Manchester Victoria station in sunshine

    Anger in Traveller community after children ‘forced on to trains’ by Manchester police

  • Birmingham city council was among those which did not submit any data

    Watchdog refuses to sign off UK public sector accounts over unreliable data

    • bear on floor<br>toy bear keeps door open

      Safeguarding agencies ‘ignoring children abused by family members’ in England

    • Technician using a light microscope to inject human sperm into a human egg cell (ovum) during in vitro fertilisation (IVF).

      Number of single UK women having fertility treatment trebles, report says

    • Ben Jennings on the UK’s assisted dying bill – cartoon

      Ben Jennings on the UK’s assisted dying bill – cartoon

Multimedia

  • People standing on geometric light patterns appear to hold up floating orbs

    Sensory art and grieving royals: photos of the day – Tuesday

  • Chancellor defends her tax-raising budget at the CBI

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    Rachel Reeves says she 'won't have to do a budget like this ever again' – video

    • Storm Bert: drone footage shows extent of flooding at English holiday park – video

    • Storm Bert brings significant flooding to UK – video

    • Rachel Reeves smiling in a crowd

      ‘No alternative’: is Rachel Reeves channelling Thatcher? – Politics Weekly Westminster

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