🚨NEW: UK intelligence officials have been repeatedly targeted in Chinese “honeytrap” plots.

Six UK intelligence sources said China is ramping up efforts to glean national secrets through seduction and blackmail. Four had been targeted personally.
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'For a long time, I wiggled away from 'child free'. The sadness & liberation implied didn’t reflect my feelings. Now I have a new moniker - “foster carer” and I love it.'

The ever wonderful Kiri Pr'chard-McLean in i newspaper. Please read this lovely piece❤️

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Keir Starmer interview with i newspaper today

▪️Hike UK defence spending to 2.5% GDP
▪️Close links with Biden camp, no contact with Trump team
▪️Threats from China
▪️HS2 project ‘blown’
▪️Interested in ‘personal liability’ for water bosses

by Hugo Gye

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Friday’s i - “Starmer: Labour will hike UK defence spending amid threat from China and Russia” #TomorrowsPapersToday

Keir Starmer interview with i newspaper today

▪️Hike UK defence spending to 2.5% GDP
▪️Close links with Biden camp, no contact with Trump team
▪️Threats from China
▪️HS2 project ‘blown’
▪️Interested in ‘personal liability’ for water bosses

by Hugo Gye

inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

i newspaper Our interview with Keir Starmer is on the front of tomorrow's i newspaper - or read online now with a digital subscription: inews.co.uk/subscribe

i newspaper Starmer's view on China: Beijing poses a challenge with 'human rights abuses, surveillance, interference' but we must work together to tackle problems such as climate change. Doesn't rule out trip to meet Xi Jinping if he becomes PM. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

i newspaper Starmer tells me: 'The nuclear deterrent is expensive, but it's absolutely vital and needed. It is the foremost protection that we have because, as the name suggests, it is the deterrence against the highest form of threat that our country could face.'
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Starmer's comments in i newspaper interview come ahead of trip to Barrow tomorrow where he will double down on backing for UK's nukes, promising a 'triple lock' of support - 4 new nuclear subs, continuous at-sea deterrent, all necessary future upgrades.
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Ambition to boost spending to 2.5% of GDP (currently just under 2.3%, compared to Nato target floor of 2%) puts Labour in line with govt - both say they want defence budget to rise but won't commit to a timeframe.
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EXCLUSIVE

Keir Starmer joins calls for 🇬🇧 military budget to increase to 2.5% of GDP.

He tells i newspaper: 'On defence spending, obviously we want to get to 2.5% as soon as resources allow that to happen.'

Read the full story: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

🚨🌹 EXC i newspaper

Keir Starmer says 'I believe in the triple lock' but *won't* yet commit to putting the policy in his election manifesto.

Read here: inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

There's more to come from our interview with the Labour leader... inews.co.uk stay tuned

🧵 It was sad visiting the UK's largest train factory this week

🚄 Alstom's site in Derby is meant to make HS2 trains - but faces imminent closure, costing thousands of jobs

🚅 I met workers baffled by government inaction

🚈 My i newspaper long read:
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Why Luton are the real victims of the Everton FFP fiasco

Thanks to Kevin Harper from Luton Town ST for some great insight into the club's current situation - I'll admit I was wrong at the beginning of the season on how this would all turn out

#LTFC

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FFS. For the record I do *not* go to bed in a tie.

'Thames Water treatment facility leaves entire town reeking of sewage.'

I'd be tempted to rewrite that headline. Thames Water 💧 leaves the whole water industry in a stinking mess. 😎

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The Premier League is campaigning against an independent regulator. None of this will be easy, but it may be our last chance to rein in complete self-interest and ensure English football’s future. It cannot be missed.

Column

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🚨 UK's biggest train factory needs an order of just 10 trains to survive

Otherwise the Derby site, meant to build HS2 trains, will be 'lost', warns Alstom boss

My i newspaper report on Nick Crossfield's interview with Richard Bowker CBE for Green Signals
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'Thames Water sewage floods my garden as dead fish float by – it’s disgusting’.'

Yep. Some people can't even get away from it on their own homes. Welcome to Thames Water 💧.

Actually is Thames Water 💧 still a thing?

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Labour set to effectively renationalise the bus network - allowing local authorities to take control as in London & Manchester.

Story i newspaper by David Parsley: inews.co.uk/news/labour-pl…