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Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, speaking in the garden of 10 Downing Street, warned that the Budget in October is ‘going to be painful’, and that ‘things will get worse before they get better’. ‘I didn’t want to means-test the winter fuel payment, but it was a choice we had to make,’ he said. ‘A garden and a building that were once used for lockdown parties are now back in your service.’ Meanwhile, it was discovered, a pass to Downing Street had been given to Lord Alli, the Labour peer and party fundraiser, who gave £10,000 to the Beckenham and Penge constituency party; the seat was won by Liam Conlon, the son of Sue Gray, Sir Keir’s chief of staff. Lord Alli also donated £18,700 worth of ‘work clothing’ (suits) and spectacles for Sir Keir and held a party in the garden of No. 10 for donors and party workers.
Sir Keir flew off to Berlin intending to ‘turn a corner on Brexit’. New border checks from November to enter the EU would be prepared with £3.5 million each for Dover, Folkestone and St Pancras. People in Blaenau Gwent were found to have up to ten dustbins, for paper, plastics, cans, glass, cardboard and food, with options for textiles, batteries, small electrical items, garden waste and nappies. Sven-Goran Eriksson, the former England football manager, died aged 76.
In 2023-24, 204,526 people aged 17 or under were referred to NHS mental health services for anxiety; in 2019-20 the total had been 98,953 and in 2016-17, only 3,879. Fire engulfed a block of flats with ‘known fire safety issues’ in Freshwater Road, Dagenham.
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