Despite the adoring support from Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Javier Milei’s radical-right free-market nightmare is unravelling, and the people are beginning to score major victories against the government in the streets and in elections, reports BEN HAYES

UNIONS want Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Budget to put “flesh on the bones” for a strong industrial strategy and Labour to adopt “flexible” fiscal rules that do not hold back growth, the TUC’s general secretary says.
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the start of the union federation’s annual Congress in Brighton, Paul Nowak explained why he is confident the government will deliver the New Deal for Working People in full.
The union leader called for wider welfare reforms, including targeted support, so pensioners due to lose winter fuel payments aren’t afraid to put on the heating this winter.

More than 100 protesters expected to hold signs opposing Palestine Action ban outside the venue in Liverpool