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Pressure eases on Rachel Reeves as UK economy grows by 0.1% in November

Fall in UK trade with EU should spur rewrite of post-Brexit rules, says IPPR

Thinktank’s report details decline in trading position and also calls for new strategy as Trump takes power in US

Keir Starmer hails ‘closer than ever’ partnership with Ukraine on Kyiv visit

Two countries to sign deal to deepen existing defence relationship and boost economic links in non-military areas

• UK rail firms urged to issue ‘yellow card’ warnings instead of penalty

• Can Labour fix the broken NHS? – Politics Weekly UK

• Hospital patients dying undiscovered in corridors, report on NHS reveals

• Ministers pledge record £410m to support UK nuclear fusion energy

• The resignation of Tulip Siddiq – podcast

• UK should seek new customs union with EU, Lib Dems to say

• Unexpected drop in inflation lifts pressure off Rachel Reeves

• No 10 accused of having ‘revolving door’ after new Treasury minister embroiled in China row

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Opinion

Liz Truss is long gone from Downing Street – but zombie economics lives on

Aditya Chakrabortty

Labour could hardly have written KemiKaze a better script – and she blew it

John Crace

Keir Starmer’s handling of the Tulip Siddiq affair forms part of a worrying pattern

Martin Kettle

At last, Britain has a legal drug consumption room – thanks to one man’s civil disobedience

Kojo Koram

• Labour’s AI plan could be good for British people – except the creatives it will throw under the bus

Ed Newton-Rex

• In the new Trumpian era, liberal democracies must hold their noses – and engage with difficult partners

Timothy Garton Ash

• Keir Starmer is right to gamble on an AI revolution, but it might not pay out in time

Rafael Behr

• The Guardian view on Rachel Reeves: turbulence caused by caution, cuts and criticism

Editorial

• Stride’s Hamlet gag saves Reeves from slings and arrows of economic fortune

John Crace

• Is Andrew Tate going to reinvent himself as a politician and ‘save Britan [sic]’?

Arwa Mahdawi

• Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair

Owen Jones

• Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better

Polly Toynbee

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Features & Analysis

‘Absolute pandemonium’: stories of ‘corridor care’ from the NHS in England

Dip in UK inflation offers respite for Reeves and paves way for interest rate cut

Giving Tulip Siddiq anti-corruption job seen by insiders as own goal

‘It’s our house, but it’s their home’: tenants and landlords discuss renters’ rights bill

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Politics Weekly UK

Every Thursday, Guardian political columnist John Harris hosts a cast of voices from up and down the country as well as across the political spectrum to analyse the week’s political news.

Ben Jennings on the preparations for Donald Trump’s inauguration – cartoon

Martin Rowson on Joe Biden and Gaza – cartoon

In his last speech, Anthony Blinken talks of the need to ‘forge a new reality’ in the Middle East

Ben Jennings on Trump in Greenland – cartoon

What do Greenlanders make of the US president-elect’s proposed advance on their home?

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