The government insists it has no plans to remove funding from children or schools, and that the object of the white paper ...

The sell of Starmerism was simple, dangerously so in fact. We now know that a country with little growth, an ageing ...

All this is all very enjoyable. Try to follow politics without laughing at it, after all, and you’ll go mad, plus some of the ...

The Starmer-Reeves regime is bruised, it needs a new comms strategy.

But at last, the grotesque staple of Britain’s late-2010s summer evenings is having its moment in the Yankee sun. We should ...

As the Labour government fits and reels, the left is organising. A week of disastrous climb-downs and workarounds from the ...

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Keir Starmer’s government does not represent the true Labour Party.

Can things still only get better? As the government marks one year in office, Anoosh Chakelian sits down with Andrew Marr, Tom McTague and Rachel Cunliffe to discuss Keir Starmer’s highs, lows and the ...

he pictures of a distraught Rachel Reeves on the government benches during Prime Minister’s Questions will cruelly and ...

If you believe Donald Trump, Iran’s nuclear programme was “completely and totally obliterated” by the US strikes on 21 June.

Pat McFadden, the cabinet minister often touted as Reeves’s successor, insists that the quad of top ministers will stick it ...