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The prime minister rejected a reset and instead fell back on old themes in his Labour conference speech

Sponsors’ stalls at the party’s Liverpool get-together shows how much the political axis has shifted

Farage’s party are a bunch of deluded dogwhistlers, but here’s the rub: they could actually win the next election

What the right wing papers and the far left think doesn’t matter, but a hurting public’s judgement counts

The one thing you can rely on at party get-togethers is lots of booze

People in the UK are living longer lives – our economic system is not set up to deal with the consequences

Ben Whishaw delights his fans, but the yawnometer goes off the scale

No, we’re not living in a socialist dystopia as the Telegraph’s Simon Heffer claims - and nonsense like this is making the Tories unelectable

In his Daily Mail column, Robert Jenrick has delivered a masterclass in “early-onset authoritarianism”

Covid conspiracies, rambling speeches and dog whistles expose Nigel Farage’s party as a deeply weird rabble

A Border Force blunder by the former PM is claimed to have cost Britain another £250m

The Noel Coward play that became a hit film gets a new lease of life

Labour and Tories are both divided on assisted dying – so long as that political uncertainty continues, Britain isn’t a safe place for vulnerable people

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Owen Paterson, Graham Brady, Dan Wootton and more

The Mail and Express claimed EU flags had been banned and seized on the Last Night - but thousands were seen being waved by the crowd

The former Conservative prime minister told Amol Rajan that when it comes to the “ultras” who took Britain out of the EU, he's in an unforgiving mood

Spanish beef is being celebrated in the best possible way, on the corner of two streets in the City of London

UK government debt is set to treble catastrophically in the next 50 years. Can Labour do anything about it?

That Keir Starmer has been letting a millionaire buy him and his wife clothes is not some life-shattering betrayal, but it is a betrayal nonetheless

Labour could have made a much better argument over the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance. But it didn’t. Big mistake

A new report suggests the negative effects of leaving the EU are deepening

A little influence over a national publication may be enough to keep Sir Paul Marshall, yet another would-be media mogul, happy

Everyone wants to regulate lobbying – even the lobbyists. Why won’t Labour do it?

The end of no fault evictions is music to the ears

Stockport County’s Andy Mangan was set to move to Real Madrid. But then Brexit intervened

The slow march towards crushing defeat goes on

Starmer has a new tune and he’s not afraid to sing it, over and over again…

Our deepest political divide is between those who recall the dangers of nationalism and those who see it as a vehicle for self-promotion

A major influencer in China visited and sparked a recurrent wave of visitors eager to try the same dishes they did

It is not an easy thing to say, but buying things online – specifically cheap, poorly made things – should not be as easy as it currently is