Labour Party

Her departure offers the chance for a reset - but fixing Labour’s stumbling start needs much more than a reshuffle

It’s nice for politicians to be able to hide from the real world for a while, it’s just a shame there’s a real world out there to fix

Labour’s caution over the EU’s youth mobility proposals is damaging a reset of relations – and is founded in irrationality

The Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate has put Trump on the back foot by pointing out his weirdness. Would this approach have the same effect on Farage?

Baseless rumours about the PM, Lord Alli and a court order are a right wing fantasy fuelled by grifter ‘journalists’ and social media

Ministers are kicking back over Freebiegate, but Fleet Street loves nothing more than a story that runs and runs

The prime minister must stop giving the media the chance to go into frenzy or outrage mode

The new prime minister’s government has started with worrying echoes of how his predecessor’s ended

The double whammy of losing the fuel allowance and the hike in first-class post will lead to far fewer cards being sent and received this year

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

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

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

It is part of Labour's challenge to make sure the public never forget this reality

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

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

If Labour does bring in a smoking ban in beer gardens, how many non-smokers will start using them again?

Starmer’s decision to cut heating benefits for pensioners is woeful politics, and Labour MPs are in despair

Labour has inherited a jails crisis. Its short-term decision to release prisoners will be unpopular. The long-term answer might be even more so

Jonathan Reynolds’ reaction to business and trade questions mark an important turning point

Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher

The idea of a Trump victory that forces Ukraine to settle with Putin is too vile to contemplate

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

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

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

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