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Lie of the week: “Labour promised to keep energy prices frozen.”

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See inside the Cheer up, Keir! edition

The portrait of Margaret Thatcher, commissioned by Gordon Brown in 2007, which has been taken down from Keir Starmer’s office after he found it ‘unsettling’.
Photo: Richard Stone

Framing Starmer

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher

Image: The New European/Getty

Britain: Unarmed and dangerous

Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them