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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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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Nick Thomas-Symonds: Labour’s Brexit repair man
The EU relations minister on Keir Starmer’s determination to cling on, and the UK’s changing relationship to Europe
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Farage now tied with Starmer as “best prime minister”
An exclusive Ipsos survey shows the Reform leader is level with his Labour opponent for the first time.
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Ed Davey squares up to Nigel Farage
The Lib Dems have found their enemy
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Can Keir Starmer defend his left flank?
The Prime Minister is being more careful to avoid fights with his party
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Trump’s week as king
The state visit was a humiliation ritual for Britain. Was it worth it?
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“Fear and frustration” in Labour, warns Lucy Powell campaign
Powell’s deputy leadership bid is betting on the underdog factor
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The Tories’ collapse has hurt Labour
In Reform, Keir Starmer faces an opponent without a record
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At London’s anti-Trump rally, I sensed the death of liberal England
Condemning the president has become passé
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Combustible Britain
As unrest grows on the nation’s streets, Keir Starmer must hold off civil war in his own cabinet
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The missing trusts from the maternity review
Why has the government excluded some of the worst-performing hospital units from its investigation?
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