Taxpayers can't fund payouts for Waspi women, Starmer says

Waspi campaigners say they will keep fighting on pensions after the government rejects compensation.

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What does the China 'spy' row show? That Starmer can't just muddle through on foreign policy | Rafael Behr

The PM’s attitude to China exposes the void where there should be a strategic concept of Britain’s place in the world. When Keir Starmer met Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Rio last month he ...
The Guardian - 11h
Campaigners furious as women hit by pension age rise denied payouts

Campaigners say they were not properly informed of a pension age rise to bring them in line with men.
BBC News - 15h
Beshear says he does not support taxpayer-funded surgeries for transgender inmates

Kentucky's Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Thursday said he does not support using taxpayer dollars for gender-affirming surgery for transgender inmates as the state's corrections department looks ...
The Hill - 4d
Starmer defends sandwiches as Badenoch says they are 'not real food'

The Conservative leader says sandwiches are "not real food" while the PM says they are a British institution.
BBC News - 6d
No plan for more tax rises but we can't rule it out - Starmer

The PM says voters can judge him at the next general election on whether their living standards have improved.
BBC News - Dec. 6
Women's health research needs funding boost, report says

Click in for more news from The Hill {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Women's health research needs funding boost, report says Roughly 9 percent of the National Institutes of ...
The Hill - Dec. 5
Orange Co. SOE defends controversial taxpayer-funded scholarship by linking it to voter access

Orange Co. SOE defends controversial taxpayer-funded scholarship by linking it to voter access
Yahoo Sports - Dec. 3
As Hunter Biden pardon sparks backlash, experts say it can't be overturned

Joe Biden is the first president to pardon his child.
ABC News - Dec. 3
Britain need not choose between Trump and EU, Starmer says

UK prime minister vows to strengthen ties with Washington, Brussels and Beijing in set-piece speech
Financial Times - Dec. 2