News Highlights – Wed 26th March 2025

Spring Statement 2025 LIVE: Inflation falls to 2.8% as Rachel Reeves prepares to unveil spending cuts (Standard)

Rachel Reeves sets out cuts to balance the books after budget watchdog’s verdict (MSN)

Economic growth forecast slashed from 2% to 1%, Chancellor Rachel Reeves tells MPs (Standard)

Welfare cuts could cost lives, warn health experts (Independent)

Assisted dying bill is ‘flawed and dangerous’ after changes, says group of Labour MPs (Guardian)

UK’s first permanent facial recognition cameras to be installed in south London despite backlash (Standard)

Kemi Badenoch spent a week at residential hosted by climate sceptic Tory donor (LeftFootForward)

Pakistani paedophile allowed to stay in UK because he is an alcoholic (Telegraph)

Furious row erupts over harassment report into ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe (The Independent)

H5N1 is greatest pandemic threat to Britain, says health watchdog (The Telegraph)

Sir John Curtice: ‘Inevitable’ the SNP will be at the core of next Scottish Government (Scotsman)

Jackie Baillie: ‘Keir Starmer not a liability’, as senior Labour figure admits to communication problem (Scotsman)

Abortion buffer zones: What is the law on buffer zones in Scotland? Are protests allowed? (Scotsman)

Scotland economy outperforming UK as whole, new figures show (The National)

‘Unjustifiable’ Israeli attacks must end, warns Streeting after Netanyahu breaks Gaza ceasefire (Independent)

Russia may be ‘dragging feet’ on achieving peace in Ukraine, Trump says (CNN)

EU Commission urges stockpiling of emergency supplies (Reuters)

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