The Independent - January 10, 2025

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January 10, 2025

Food prices could rise by a fifth as financial crisis looms

Fears of recession fuel calls for Reeves to cancel trip to China

5 mins

Pot calls kettle black? Truss says Reeves is pushing UK to brink of economic crisis’

Rachel Reeves has been blamed by Liz Truss for a dramatic drop in the value of the pound, which has sparked fears of a new recession.

2 mins

Lammy declares 'Trump is right' on defence spending

David Lammy has declared that the hard-won “post-Cold War peace is well and truly over” as he used his first major speech of 2025 to take aim at Vladimir Putin and Russian aggression.

3 mins

Begum will not return to UK, says foreign secretary

Shamima Begum will not be returning to the UK, David Lammy said following calls from Donald Trump’s incoming counterterrorism chief for the repatriation of British members of Isis being held in Syrian prison camps.

2 mins

CBI boss defends Phillips.after Musk 'throws darts'

Churchill's grandson Rupert Soames backs Labour minister described as 'a rape genocide apologist' by the tech tycoon

2 mins

Peer suspended from Lords after verbal assault on staff

A former Marks and Spencer boss has been suspended from the House of Lords for six months after he was found to have launched a tirade of abuse at members of parliamentary staff.

2 mins

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