Labour Party

Rachel Reeves made a start on fixing the Conservatives’ years of waste - but it is nowhere near enough

The global north needs to be building friendships with as many of our former colonies as possible

Early release is a sticking plaster, not a solution. We need a wholly new approach to sentencing

This £200m policy would help children and be the first step to restarting Sure Start

They’ll talk about getting Britain closer to Europe, but will Keir Starmer listen?

Whatever Rachel Reeves announces will make her deeply unpopular. But that won’t necessarily mean she’s wrong

Johnson says that his new book on Harold Wilson isn’t meant as a message to the current PM. But it is

The PM has promised to put country before party. None of his Tory predecessors did, so why should he?

The Labour prime minister has said the way to kickstart the British economy is to cut red tape. What the hell is he thinking?

The PM is running out of time to change the narrative around his government’s shaky start

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