Can Mary Barton save Britain’s badgers?
Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back
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On patrol with Labour’s Mike Tapp
The migration minister is hawkish on protecting Britain’s borders – but rejects Reform’s politics of division
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Labour has a Green problem
Zack Polanski’s first month as leader shows he’s the biggest threat Keir Starmer has faced from the left.
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Who is Jonathan Powell?
The national security adviser finds himself at the centre of events once again
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Kemi Badenoch is pretending to be tough on China
It’s a shame the leader of the opposition never thought this way before
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Jonathan Reynolds breaks bread with suspended MPs
The new chief whip has scheduled meetings with the banished backbench MPs
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Clarkson’s click farm
The former Top Gear presenter is again sounding out whether he could run for parliament
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To boost growth, Labour should lean into liberalism
Later licensing hours for pubs and clubs are a start. But what other illicit activities could be legalised to help…
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Labour and the Tories are trapped in a tax hole
By misreading the past, Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch are being hobbled in the present
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Inside No 10’s Policy Unit shakeup
A document circulating among Labour advisers suggests the party fight on “home turf”
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Labour’s deputy leadership election gets nasty
Lucy Powell’s critics say she’ll be frozen out of big decisions if she wins
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Kemi Badenoch rides Tory conference high – for now
The Tories have consciously uncoupled from reality
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Can Shabana Mahmood win Jewish trust after Manchester?
The burden of the government’s response to last week’s anti-Semitic attack will fall on the Home Secretary
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Why is Labour so cheery?
Every faction believes that it could own the future
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It’s too late for Starmer
For the sake of the Labour Party and its values, we need a change of leader
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Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets
Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra…
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Is the government about to lift the two-child benefit cap?
Pre-conference pressure means the policy could be abolished next week. But why has it taken so long?
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Douglas Alexander: “We must be a remedy for Reform, not a replica”
The Scotland Secretary on his political comeback, taking on the SNP, and the crisis in Labour
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How much trouble is Morgan McSweeney in?
A leaked email suggests McSweeney may not have been totally honest during an investigation into the funding of Labour Together
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Keir Starmer must forge a future-facing nationalism
Criteria for belonging can be based on the common good
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