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Labour needs £25bn a year in tax rises to rebuild public services, warns IFSThinktank says tax increases in budget will be necessary even if Rachel Reeves changes fiscal rules
- AnalysisWill Rachel Reeves’s rules on debt and spending survive the budget?
- AnalysisWill Rachel Reeves’s rules on debt and spending survive the budget?
- Israel says Iran strike will be ‘lethal, precise, surprising’; Biden tells Netanyahu to ‘minimise harm’ in Lebanon
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- World Biden and Netanyahu speak as Gallant warns of ‘deadly’ surprise attack on Iran
- Hurricane Milton: Florida braced for landfall
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Residents braced for potentially catastrophic storm surge as state pounded by severe winds and heavy rain
- USTropical storm-force winds reach Florida before ‘storm of the century’
- Florida Seven tornadoes hit Florida in advance of arrival of Hurricane Milton
- 'We hope and pray'Some stay despite warning they may not be rescued
Workers' rights
New enforcement agency will protect workers’ rights as part of ‘watershed’ billGreece
Former Sheffield United defender George Baldock dies aged 31Fossil fuels
Foreign aid for fossil fuel projects quadrupled in a single year
Politics
Labour and Lib Dems gleeful as Badenoch to face Jenrick in Tory leadership raceTaylor Swift
Ministers facing questions over Met’s VIP protection for Taylor SwiftTata
Indian tycoon Ratan Tata dies at age 86Tesla
California police department debuts ‘first police Cybertruck in the nation’ to impress kidsUS
More than 100 raccoons besiege house of woman who had been feeding them
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Labour’s employment rights bill: what key changes will it bring?Ukraine war briefing
End the war in 2025 through ‘decisive action’, says ZelenskyyUkrainian president to meet Keir Starmer and Nato’s new secretary general, Mark Rutte, in London on whirlwind tour. What we know on day 960
Analysis
Cock-up, rather than conspiracy, the likely cause of Cleverly’s surprise exitLaw of unintended consequences more likely to have played key role in Tory leadership election
Spotlight
Documentary
One Day in October review – the interviews with Hamas terror attack survivors are heartbreakingThis disturbing documentary about the attack on Be’eri kibbutz is full of troubling interviews and phone/CCTV footage. Sadly, it also demonises Gazans as either killers or looters
Philippines
Stage set for battle of the dynasties as Rodrigo Duterte eyes return to politics in the Philippines
The Tory leadership contest continues to deliver – for Labour
John Crace
James Cleverly had been the one Tory talking a small amount of sense, so of course he lost to Kemi Badenoch and Robert Jenrick
Well actually
Breast milk for adults: wellness elixir or unscientific fascination?- WellnessDoes wearing a bra make breasts more or less perky?
Film
Blitz review – Steve McQueen’s rousing wartime adventure is surprisingly old-fashionedTheatre
King Troll (The Fawn) review – this nerve-jangling thriller never lets upMy best shot
The hidden underside of an iceberg: Laurent Ballesta’s best photographPass notes
Flopping at the box office, hated by the critics – could Joker: Folie à Deux possibly be any worse?
The new Tory leader will be Badenoch or Jenrick. Either would be a one-way ticket to another political planet
Martin Kettle
MPs spurned the chance to renew their party. Their chosen path is further right, a blow for all who want an effective opposition, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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Ella Baron on Hurricane Milton
Celebrities are coughing up millions to bring back the dodo. This could end very badly
Arwa Mahdawi
Director Peter Jackson has given $10m to a startup aiming to revive extinct animals, writes Arwa Mahdawi. Did he learn nothing from Jurassic Park?
Pity the families devastated by having a loved one go missing, who are then traumatised by the press
Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff
I now know that the ordeal suffered by Nicola Bulley’s relatives is common. Lurid headlines, speculation – none of it helps
Trump is falsely blaming Harris for high prices. His plans will cause huge inflation
Steven Greenhouse
Massive rent hikes, dodgy landlords – unlike many MPs, I know what renting is like. We have to fix it
Chris Curtis
Don’t indulge the Thames Water whingers next week, prime minister
Nils Pratley
Kim Kardashian recommends a full-body MRI scan – should I get one?
Melissa Davey
Editorials & Letters
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The Guardian view on the Conservative leadership contest: normality is not on the ballotSee AlsoQuantum Numbers for Atoms2.2: Atomic Orbitals and Quantum NumbersGuardian L - AscensionSet: 2 Guardian L - AscensionEditorial
The Guardian view on inequality in the UK: what kids can teach usLetters
Questions of identity and safety for Muslims and JewsLetters
Use your local museums or lose them
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Like a cricketing Michelangelo, Root has chiselled his name in Test history
Ali Martin
Modest England batter passed Cook’s runs milestone with a typically understated 35th century – and there’s more to come
- ‘Run-scoring machine’Cook hails Root after passing landmark
- Day threeRecord-breaker Root and Brook make hay in Multan
- As it happenedRead our writers' over-by-over report
Tennis
You cannot be serious? Wimbledon drops line judges after 147 years- TennisBadosa apologises after being accused of racism
Klopp shakes English football’s god delusion with Red Bull embrace
Jonathan Liew
- Jürgen KloppGerman returning to football with Red Bull
Football
‘A lot of similarities’: Stones senses Carsley’s Guardiola-like style- EnglandStones ready to be captain despite City frustrations
Women's Champions League
Man City 2-0 Barcelona: Layzell and Shaw stun WCL holdersWomen's Champions League
Bayern Munich 5-2 Arsenal: Harder hits 13-minute hat-trickIs City’s rage against the machine more a posture than a plan?
Paul MacInnes
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Environment
Anger at UK’s ‘bonkers’ plan to reach net zero by importing fuel from North KoreaAnalysis
US emergency crews struggle as climate crisis fuels ‘unprecedented’ competing disastersEnvironment
Global heating makes hurricanes like Helene twice as likely, data showsEnvironment
China to head green energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years
Food banks
More than 9 million Britons vulnerable to reliance on food banks, research findsOne million more people are in what Trussell charity defines as ‘hunger and hardship’ than five years ago
- ExplainedHow many people in the UK are in ‘hunger and hardship’?
- ExplainedHow many people in the UK are in ‘hunger and hardship’?
Northumberland
Boy who stabbed ex-girlfriend to death in Hexham named as Logan MacPhail
Film
Angela Rayner reconsiders rejected application for Marlow film studioTreasury
Reeves mulling national insurance on employer pension contributionsLily Ebert
King Charles honours ‘extraordinary’ Holocaust survivor after death aged 100Politics
Former defence secretary Ben Wallace takes role advising Saudi ArabiaBusiness
New UK laws to stop repeat of P&O mass sackings scandal go before parliamentAmmanford
Ammanford school stabbing trial collapses as ‘compromised’ jury dischargedLucy Letby
Lucy Letby encouraged by manager to visit Alder Hey children’s hospital, inquiry hearsBristol
Two boys murdered in case of mistaken identity, Bristol court told
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European summit to discuss Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s ‘victory plan’ is postponedWorld leaders pull out from talks in Germany after Joe Biden withdraws due to Hurricane Milton
- Nato‘Trump-proof’ European security by setting up ‘Nato bank’, thinktanks urge
- Nato‘Trump-proof’ European security by setting up ‘Nato bank’, thinktanks urge
European Union
Plan to fingerprint passengers on entry to EU to be delayed again
Television
Emmanuel Macron: We will fight hard to keep Emily in Paris in FranceSee Also2.2: The Four Quantum NumbersUS
‘Formidable’ female bear wins Alaska’s Fat Bear Contest for second year in rowUnited Nations
Former foreign policy adviser to three UK PMs appointed as UN aid chiefWorld news
El Salvador faces scrutiny for ‘political’ trial of five environmental activistsEnvironment
Europe was a leader on saving nature. Now, its backsliding could threaten global progressEurope
Ursula von der Leyen attacks Viktor Orbán over pro-Russia stanceGaza
Unrwa: 400,000 people trapped by Israel’s offensiveSpain
Pedro Sánchez unveils plans to help migrants settle in Spain
Stage
Too much theatre memorabilia is being lost to private collectors, says David HareAs hundreds of personal effects belonging to playwright John Osborne go up for sale, Hare laments that the V&A is not bidding
Interview
‘I was always the sexy tootsie’: Kelly Bishop on Broadway hits, Gilmore Girls – and how to do the Dirty Dancing lift
Games
Silent Hill 2 review – psychological horror remake leaves you lost in the fogTheatre
The Other Place review – a searing, gasp-inducing take on SophoclesSwitzerland
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Enda Walsh delivers a five-star dazzler and Forced Entertainment make mischief at Dublin theatre festival
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Antarctica
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