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New: First post election YouGov poll for The Times and Sky - Reform ahead of the Tories and just one point behind Labour Labour 26% Reform UK 25% Conservatives 22% Lib Dem 14% Greens 8%

If you read one thing this weekend read this - the extraordinary inside story of the £100million HS2 bat tunnel from Chris Smyth and Tom Whipple From the fateful flight of Bat 60, who first sparked the saga by unwittingly crossing the path of HS2, to the 'acoustic deterrents'

How well do you remember Brexit? Take The Times quiz thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Senior officials have been asked to deliver 5% budget cuts. Failure to meet targets will trigger performance plans and potential dismissal ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Revealed: What Gen Z really think about Britain - and themselved. All this week in The Times thetimes.com/uk/society/art…

"This is a generation that has struggled with wage stagnation and found it far harder to accumulate wealth...But cultural issues have also become far more central to politics than in the past." Bobby Duffy spoke to The Times about Gen Z thetimes.com/article/3ac52c…

Half of Gen Z think that Britain is a racist country and only a tenth would risk their lives to defend it in a war, landmark research for The Times shows. Our research gives a voice to a young generation disillusioned with national institutions. thetimes.com/uk/society/art…

Assisted dying campaigners drop plan for a High Court judge to sign off on people wanting to end their own lives - despite claiming two weeks ago there was "no way" that would happen

The end of the one night stand: Gen Z turns their back on casual sex thetimes.com/uk/society/art…

You're not going to read anything funnier today than Simon Hart's diaries of the dying days of Tory government Come for the Spad crapping on someone's head Stay for the casual dismissal of Kemi Badenoch thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Shoppers hit by £2bn packaging tax ‘to prop up failing councils’ thetimes.com/article/7a31fb…

‘It’s the hope that kills you’ - The Times’s weekend read as Keir Starmer waits for Donald Trump’s next move * Growing hopes of a potential ‘deal in desert’ - Zelensky and Trump could meet next week in Saudi Arabia * MoD shock at decision to suspend intelligence sharing -

Inside the cabinet revolt against Keir Starmer’s cuts - Free to read, alongside every else this weekend, at thetimes.com thetimes.com/article/eeb13e…

500,000 second-home owners face paying twice as much council tax thetimes.com/article/763ca3…

Exc: Bridget Phillipson has suggested making free school meals for infants means-tested instead of universal, as part of spending review negotiations. The education secretary has put forward controversial proposals that Treasury insiders say are deliberately politically

Very pleased to announce I’ll shortly be moving to the US to become Washington Correspondent for the Times. Sad to be leaving incredible colleagues after five years in Westminster. But very excited for the new job!

It is Wednesday night and a man in the Helter Skelter pub in Frodsham is ­complaining. Loudly. He is furious with the way the Labour Party is being run and the decisions made to cut winter ­fuel payments and disability benefits. His particular ire is aimed at Sir Keir Starmer,

EXC w/ ⁦Oliver Wright⁩ ⁦Matt Dathan⁩ EU rejects UK plea to use crime and illegal migration databases British negotiators now proceeding on basis no youth mobility deal will be agreed at summit later this month thetimes.com/article/b2b379…

Happy to share that from Friday I will be joining The Times and The Sunday Times' team in the lobby this summer, reporting on politics live from SW1 🗳️ If you'd like to get in touch about a story or for a coffee, please reach out via DMs or through the email address in my bio📧

It's been one hell of a journey Back August 2024 my colleague Oliver Wright first revealed that ministers were prepared to enter into a youth mobility scheme with the EU Number 10 denied it on the record. Sir Keir Starmer denied it repeatedly on the record. But we kept hearing