Starmer’s Farage-focused local elections launch shows he knows Reform are the real threat to Labour
As well as threatening to pick up hundreds of council seats next month, Reform are frontrunners for the Runcorn and Helsby by ...
Conservatives should stand aside and let Reform win Runcorn by-election, says senior Tory MP
The Runcorn and Helsby by-election next month will see both Reform and the Conservatives attempt to overturn Labour’s 15,000 ...
‘Fantasy figure’ to claim families £3,500 poorer under Labour, says Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Conservatives of using a “fantasy figure” to claim that families will be £3,500 poorer due ...
Runcorn by-election: Inside the town that will see Starmer’s first major test at the ballot box
Having spent the first nine months in power struggling to get a grip on the narrative, a by-election loss in such a safe ...
Starmer targets Reform as Labour kicks off local election campaign
Sir Keir Starmer said there was “nothing patriotic” about Reform UK’s attitude towards Vladimir Putin as he launched Labour’s local election campaign with a promise to “bring change to Britain”.
Minister visits Birmingham amid calls for Government to intervene in bin strike
Local government minister Jim McMahon will meet council chiefs in an effort to end the strike, which has seen tonnes of ...
Extra 400,000 people to be signed off as unfit for work under Labour’s welfare reforms, government admits
Work and Pensions Secretary Liz Kendall has insisted the changes are needed to fix the ‘broken’ system left by the last ...
Is Labour turning to the right in its approach to immigration?
Sean O’Grady examines the prime minister’s latest plans to tackle irregular migration, and asks what might come next in what ...
Dail speaker needs to ‘build bridges’ with opposition after confidence vote – TD
The speaker of the Irish parliament needs to “build bridges” with the opposition after the confidence motion is held on ...
Labour’s hero-worship of Ed Miliband won’t save him
Party members love the energy secretary, but Keir Starmer has already demonstrated his ruthlessness, says John Rentoul ...
No evidence Labour welfare cuts will get more people into work, OBR says
Labour’s plan to support more people into work through cost-cutting welfare reforms has been called into question by the ...
UK to sign migration deal with Serbia as Lammy visits Western Balkans
Foreign Secretary David Lammy will ratify the “co-operation agreement”, first announced by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ...