British Politics

Replacing unfair, outdated levies with taxes based on land value would benefit 77% of us and help the country level up

Predictably, the right wing paper has gone back on its promise to stop obsessing about immigration

Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them

During a recent book event with school children in Glasgow, the issue didn't register highly on their radar

If Rachel Reeves wants to be a truly reforming chancellor, she should embrace a more radical approach to accounting

Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed

With so many plates spinning, John Swinney must now hope they don’t all come crashing down

After 25 years, our diarist lays to rest the nation’s most feared and revered diary column

Unless we act now, it will be used in the destruction of our democracy

Labour should work with the Lib Dems and Greens to help stop polarisation and public apathy

Is the prime minister serious about his EU red lines - or just playing a long game?

There is no good reason for banning cigarettes outside pubs while allowing them on the pavement next door

Political parties belong to activists as much as they do to leaders

The same tax rate for earnings and wealth would be a seismic change that raised billions

Keir Starmer’s trip to Germany and France feels empty without rejoining the scheme

No amount of slightly closer cooperation in areas of little everyday benefit can get anywhere near the massive gains from being back in the EU

Post-Brexit subsidies were supposed to save the countryside. Instead they’ve given landowners incentives to oust their tenant farmers

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has some tough decisions to make in October’s budget, but has options to achieve growth and avoid austerity

The new crop of MPs are faced with a Hogwarts-style parliament as the Tories’ leadership crisis rumbles on unabated

The election of hundreds of new MPs presents Parliament with a short window of opportunity

The party’s president, Mark Pack, is facing questions as it could lose half a million pounds in a legal row

The public is sick of political in-fighting, so Keir Starmer must clamp down on No.10 leaks

It’s time Labour did something big and transformative to save us from a news cycle of misery

Reform’s leader is keen to discuss a referendum on the ECHR instead. Surely it can’t be a distraction tactic?

Instead of pretending to be dragged into it, why not celebrate it?

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at GB News, Lee Anderson, Ben Habib and more

The Tory leadership candidate’s mixed-race children won’t be forced to pick an identity - despite what her latest culture war rant says

The government has demonstrated a conviction that dangerous behaviour has to have consequences

Delays for travellers to Europe are about to get much worse with the EU’s new entry/exit system