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I’ve had the best time working with the brilliant The Times and The Sunday Times Scotland team over the last four months I am now working on the London section The Times and The Sunday Times - tips welcome! A few of my favourite pieces I worked on in Scotland below 🧵

Universities face tax on foreign students’ tuition fees under new immigration rules announced in today’s white paper ✍️ thetimes.com/article/600286…

🇬🇧 Migration Plan To Curb 100,000 Arrivals A Year ▫Sir Keir Starmer announced sweeping reforms including tighter visa restrictions and promised to ‘take back control of our borders’ ▫@Matt_Dathan Daisy Eastlake #frontpagestoday #UK The Times and The Sunday Times

Beyond thrilled with this, what a nice surprise!! 📊

Excl: Britain faces "horrible reality” of releasing prisoners early as part of long-term fix to the prisons crisis, Shabana Mahmood admits. Full and frank interview with The Times and The Sunday Times as she prepares to announce major shakeup of sentencing laws on Thursday: thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Here's a detailed breakdown of the key measures in David Gauke's Sentencing Review with assessments on their chances of working. By Daisy Eastlake and me: thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

How does David Gauke think the prison population can be cut by 10,000? A full debrief of the Independent Sentencing Review, by myself and Matt Dathan ✍️ thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Well there we are

Beyond excited to announce I'm joining The Times next month to work for Wesmintster's best lobby team under Steve Swinford. I'll be taking charge of the daily politics newsletter, while also finding stories for the paper. Let's go!

🚨 NEW: No 10 says the Spending Review is now complete and ready to be delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves on Wednesday

Spending review summary: the winners and losers thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Badenoch tells a room of business representatives at an investment conference that “there is a gap in the market for a serious centre right plan… that is the space that I fill”

Badenoch making a pitch for Conservative membership to business at a conference this morning: “To be quite frank we need an army”

MPs have voted to pass the assisted dying bill Ayes - 314 Noes - 291 Meaning Leadbeater's bill moves to the Lords with a narrow majority of 23, under half the majority of 55 that it held at second reading

Rachel Reeves yesterday said explicitly that there will be ‘no u-turn’ on welfare reforms Starmer has said similar over and over again. This from last week: ‘We need reform and we will be getting on with that reform when the bill comes’ But with 100+ Labour MPs now in open

Yesterday I asked Rachel Reeves if she could guarantee there will be no u-turn on welfare benefit cuts. She insisted - "no, there will be no u-turn. we will vote on it next week." Not sure she's feeling so confident today...

Whips are trying to muddy the water saying some of the names on the list last night did not consent to be put on Rebels having none of it - every name was checked and verified they say

Trump says Israel and Iran ‘don’t know what the fuck they’re doing’