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Kemi Badenoch's uncosted £10bn anti-missile plans were seized on by the rightwing press as the moment it anointed a new champion against Andy Burnham, Guardian columnist Jane Martinson writes.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham told MPs he will pursue deeper cooperation with the EU on youth mobility, food and drink, and energy at next month's summit, claiming the agreements could add £10bn a year to the economy by 2040.
Shadow energy secretary Andrew Bowie branded the prime minister's comments 'dangerous and divisive', while Lib Dem leader Ed Davey praised Burnham for saying what 'needed to be said by a prime minister'.
The Conservatives plan to scrap the future homes standard, the Greens have backed new nuclear and Labour has put oil-drilling decisions on hold, according to an analysis of the UK party conference season.
A Russian plague researcher’s death, a botched US execution, and the Tory party conference frame a week in which Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Rivals are organising for a possible byelection in Nigel Farage's Clacton seat, with speculation growing that the standards inquiry into a £5m gift is close to concluding.
Labour's Sagal Abdi-Wali beat Green leader Zack Polanski in the Holborn and St Pancras byelection – a result psephologist Peter Kellner called one that 'defied history'. Writing in the Guardian, Jonathan Freedland argues the PM's rivals are handing him an easy start in No 10.
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch has pledged to scrap inheritance tax on family homes and allow couples to leave £1m tax-free.
Kemi Badenoch has wrapped up her address to the Conservative party conference in Birmingham, with BBC analysis noting her personal poll ratings are rising while the party's are not.
