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Catherine, Princess of Wales, says it has been ‘incredibly tough couple of months for our family’ – live reaction

UK News: Princess of Wales says tests after an operation found cancer was present and she is in the early stages of preventative chemotherapy

* Princess of Wales receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer
* What we know about the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis
* Princess of Wales reveals she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy – video

The Guardian’s health editor, Andrew Gregory, has written this explainer on what we know about the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis. He writes:

The Princess of Wales, 42, has been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer. Kensington Palace said it would not be sharing any further medical information about the form or stage of cancer that was discovered.

We all know the suffering and distress that a cancer diagnosis brings to individuals, their families and friends. I wish Kate well in her battle, and have no doubt that her words will be of comfort and support to others facing their own.

On behalf of Londoners, I wish the Princess of Wales a swift recovery as she undergoes treatment. My thoughts are with her and her family. Cancer has an impact on so many of us and her bravery in sharing her diagnosis will help raise awareness and encourage others to get checked. Continue reading…
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Britain’s slimmed-down monarchy has been left vulnerable in wake of cancer diagnoses

Fewer engagements are being conducted, and possible role of Harry as regent could raise constitutional issues

A decade ago, the royal family notched up more than 4,000 engagements in a year, travelling across the UK and criss-crossing the globe.

The then Prince of Wales travelled to Saudi Arabia, Mexico and Colombia; Prince Harry went to Brazil and Chile and the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh carried out more than 660 engagements between them, including trips to France and Italy. Continue reading…
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Catherine, Princess of Wales, says it has been ‘incredibly tough couple of months for our family’ – live reaction

Princess of Wales says tests after an operation found cancer was present and she is in the early stages of preventative chemotherapy

* Princess of Wales receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer
* What we know about the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis
* Princess of Wales reveals she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy – video

The Guardian’s health editor, Andrew Gregory, has written this explainer on what we know about the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis. He writes:

The Princess of Wales, 42, has been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer. Kensington Palace said it would not be sharing any further medical information about the form or stage of cancer that was discovered.

We all know the suffering and distress that a cancer diagnosis brings to individuals, their families and friends. I wish Kate well in her battle, and have no doubt that her words will be of comfort and support to others facing their own.

On behalf of Londoners, I wish the Princess of Wales a swift recovery as she undergoes treatment. My thoughts are with her and her family. Cancer has an impact on so many of us and her bravery in sharing her diagnosis will help raise awareness and encourage others to get checked. Continue reading…
http://dlvr.it/T4T7HC

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UK Blog News Service in the United Kingdom

Catherine, Princess of Wales, says it has been ‘incredibly tough couple of months for our family’ – live reaction

Princess of Wales says tests after an operation found cancer was present and she is in the early stages of preventative chemotherapy

* Princess of Wales receiving chemotherapy treatment for cancer
* What we know about the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis
* Princess of Wales reveals she has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy – video

The Guardian’s health editor, Andrew Gregory, has written this explainer on what we know about the Princess of Wales’s cancer diagnosis. He writes:

The Princess of Wales, 42, has been diagnosed with an unspecified form of cancer. Kensington Palace said it would not be sharing any further medical information about the form or stage of cancer that was discovered.

We all know the suffering and distress that a cancer diagnosis brings to individuals, their families and friends. I wish Kate well in her battle, and have no doubt that her words will be of comfort and support to others facing their own.

On behalf of Londoners, I wish the Princess of Wales a swift recovery as she undergoes treatment. My thoughts are with her and her family. Cancer has an impact on so many of us and her bravery in sharing her diagnosis will help raise awareness and encourage others to get checked. Continue reading…
http://dlvr.it/T4T7HC

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Government suffers four defeats on Rwanda bill as peers vote to tighten safeguards – UK politics live

UK News: Lords back amendments saying bill must comply with international law, on classifying Rwanda as a safe country and independent monitoring

Yesterday I covered quite a lot of comment on the Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture based on a three-page press release sent out by Labour with advance extracts. The full speech runs to 8,000 words and it is certainly worth a read. Here is some commentary published after the full text was made public.

Paul Mason, the former economics journalist who is now an active Labour supporter, says in a blog for the Spectator that Reeves is proposing an approach that should make it easier for the government to justify capital investment. He explains:

Reeves effectively offered markets a trade-off. She set out the same broad fiscal rule as the government: debt falling at the end of five years and a deficit moving towards primary balance. She will make it law that any fiscal decision by government will be subject to an independent forecast of its effects by the OBR. But, she said: “I will also ask the OBR to report on the long-term impact of capital spending decisions. And as Chancellor I will report on wider measures of public sector assets and liabilities at fiscal events, showing how the health of the public balance sheet is bolstered by good investment decisions.”

Why is this so big? Because the OBR does not currently model the ‘long-term impact of capital spending decisions’. It believes that £1 billion of new capital investment produces £1 billion of growth in the first year, tapering to nothing by year five. Furthermore, since 2019 it has repeatedly expressed scepticism that a sustained programme of public investment can produce a permanent uplift in the UK’s output potential.

George Eaton at the New Statesman says the Reeves speech contained Reeves’ “most explicit repudiation yet of the model pursued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s governments”. He says:

In her 8,000-word Mais Lecture, delivered last night at City University, the shadow chancellor offered her most explicit repudiation yet of the model pursued by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown’s governments. Though she praised New Labour’s record on public service investment and poverty reduction, Reeves warned that the project failed to recognise that “globalisation and new technologies could widen as well as diminish inequality, disempower people as much as liberate them, displace as well as create good work”.

She added that the labour market “remained characterised by too much insecurity” and that “key weaknesses on productivity and regional inequality” persisted. This is not merely an abstract critique – it leads Reeves and Keir Starmer to embrace radically different economic prescriptions.

Mais lecture is the most intellectually wide-ranging speech Rachel Reeves has given. Worth reading for takes on Lawson, austerity, New Labour, link between dynamism & worker-security, and how geo-politics changes our national growth story (& more besides) Continue reading…
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