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For Labour’s new MPs, a controversial vote to scrap the universal pensioners’ Winter Fuel Payment is a brutal wake-up call to the realities of...
It’s one of Westminster’s more flamboyant rituals. Deputy Speaker Nus Ghani donned white silk gloves and read out the numbers written on balls...
Even if David Cameron is not personally responsible for the harrowing deaths of 72 people in the Grenfell Tower inferno, his administration’s...
In France they take September’s la rentrée properly. Shops advertise back-to-school clothes while adults open their inboxes after August at the...
For all Sir Keir Starmer’s repeated insistence that the UK won’t make any concessions on a European Union youth mobility scheme, he knows it is...
Sir Keir Starmer deliberately chose Downing Street’s rose garden as the venue of his back-to-school speech to remind voters that it was the site of...
Sir Keir Starmer’s holiday plans have been put on hold as rioting sweeps the country. Fair enough. But there are some who are extremely eager to...
At 11:50am on Monday, Axel Rudakubana is alleged to have began his rampage with a knife in Southport. By 1pm the news had broken on mainstream news...
In politics, like history, the victors write their own version of events. Rachel Reeves will almost certainly convince voters that Jeremy Hunt spent...
“Rest in peace, little angels,” read the card on the sunflowers left in Southport on Tuesday morning in tribute to the pre-teen Taylor Swift fans...
Labour MP Liam Byrne’s note telling his successor at the Treasury “I’m afraid there is no money left” almost never saw the light of day. When...
Most Labour MPs are prepared to give Keir Starmer the benefit of the doubt that he will eventually scrap the two-child limit on benefits. Some are...
When Rishi Sunak first saw the demand from junior doctors for a 35 per cent pay rise, he thought it was a typo. Now Keir Starmer must be rubbing his...
Voters often complain they don’t understand what Keir Starmer stands for. Now they should be in no doubt: interventionism is a means to grow the...
If Donald Trump can forgive his pick for Vice President, JD Vance, for originally calling him an “idiot” and “reprehensible”, Foreign...
In Washington, amid jokes about how Sir Keir Starmer was about to bring football home, Joe Biden delivered a serious message to the new Prime...
Keir Starmer is clear that he’s “prepared to make enemies” to see through his vision to build 1.5 million extra homes in five years and to open...
Vultures picking over the carrion of the Conservatives’ defeat had started their gruesome meal long before Thursday’s ballots had been cast. A...
Labour won because the Conservatives lost. After 14 years, the “natural party of government” forfeit its right to rule. It wasn’t just their...
Depending on which political party you speak to, either the end is in sight, or the end is nigh. With just three sleeps until polling day, both...
Keir Starmer may come to regret suspending Labour candidate Kevin Craig for the second-tier misdemeanour of betting against himself in the coming...
A fight for TV remotes around the UK on Thursday night as the Spain vs Italy match was pitted against four middle-aged men on the BBC’s election...
Rishi Sunak is touring an apprentices’ classroom at Sizewell B Power station in Suffolk. The Prime Minister is learning how to use nuclear power...
When Labour’s Jonathan Ashworth stood on stage on Monday and pushed the Conservative manifesto through a shredder, “the most almighty cheer”...
Keir Starmer bet the house on economic growth as he launched his Labour manifesto, promising £8.5bn in tax rises, but none that affect ordinary...
Keir Starmer won Sky News’s Battle for No 10, but questions remain from a sceptical public, angry with a political class so out of touch with...
Rishi Sunak tried to convince wavering voters with a pledge to cut tax by £1,300 a year to “the average worker” when he launched a...
When Rishi Sunak stands up at a racing circuit on Tuesday to unveil his Conservative Party’s 76-page manifesto, his pit crew will want voters to...
Knocking on doors in Wales on Thursday, the Labour candidate pauses to check their step count. “Another street means I can have an extra glass of...
Bleary-eyed, confused and with a bad taste in their mouth, viewers of Tuesday night’s ITV debate between Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer no doubt woke...
Trailing 20 points in the opinion polls, Rishi Sunak had little to lose in the first TV leaders’ debate. Unexpectedly aggressive, he put Labour...