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‘How the f**k do you know me?’ the Ginger Patriot asked as he filmed from behind the security barrier

YouTuber could not have been more polite at a recent asylum hotel protest. Now he was snarling at me across a security barrier

Keir Starmer delivers perhaps his best speech so far as UK prime minister

Labour leader takes the fight to his internal and external political enemies in address to his party’s conference in Liverpool

Labour conference shows how future of Keir Starmer’s government depends on one woman

As protests gather outside Labour’s annual conference, Keir Starmer is betting on immigration hardliner Shabana Mahmood to save his government

Hard right demo greets delegates to Labour conference in Liverpool

Noisy protests just the start of UK prime minister Keir Starmer’s problems as he tries to regain initiative after rough month

Could Labour’s ‘king of the north’ dethrone Keir Starmer?

As Labour heads into a fractious party conference, the Manchester mayor has made his leadership ambitions clear. But some party insiders believe he might have ‘over-reached’

Is Britain’s ailing Conservative Party finally over?

Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block

The Irish Times view on the Starmer question: Labour should be careful

Andy Burnham appears to be mounting a challenge to the leader

Andy Burnham says MPs are urging him to challenge Keir Starmer for Labour leadership

Former leadership contender accuses Downing Street of creating a ‘climate of fear’ among MPs

Lib Dems gleeful as party eyes historic shift in British politics

Faithful see their party as the ‘liberal antidote’ to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

Britain will ‘never surrender flag’ to far-right protesters, Starmer says

‘People have a right to peaceful protest. It is core to our country’s values’

Peter Mandelson sacked as British ambassador to US over Jeffrey Epstein links

Emails show ‘depth and extent’ of relationship different to what was known when he was appointed, statement says

Labour’s ‘King of the North’ highlights growing problem facing Keir Starmer

Labour backbenches are uneasy, which is where the British prime minister’s northern problem comes in

David Lammy appointed Britain’s deputy prime minister following Angela Rayner resignation

Keir Starmer reshuffles cabinet as Angela Rayner steps down after underpaying stamp duty

Keir Starmer refuses to say if he will sack deputy PM if she broke rules

Independent standards adviser examining underpayment of stamp duty by Angela Rayner

British deputy prime minister admits to not paying enough stamp duty on second home

‘Devastated’ housing secretary Angela Rayner says she considered resigning over the issue

Greens to the left, Reform to the right: Starmer’s Labour feels the squeeze

New Green Party leader Zack Polanski shows growing challenge to Labour from the left

Keir Starmer faces real peril in defining period as MPs return

UK prime minister must overturn Reform’s migration-fuelled summer dominance, while crucial budget also looms into view

Reform UK announces plan to repeal human rights laws and deport all asylum seekers

Nigel Farage says party would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights and disapply international treaties

Lack of tax powers renders Stormont a spectator in UK public spending debate

Patience of English taxpayers with Northern Ireland will be tested as Britain runs out of money

‘If you prick us, do we not bleed?’: UK government minister Chris Bryant reflects on new revealing autobiography

The Welsh politician, a former Anglican priest, has been an MP for 24 years, is still a Remainer and may be related to Donald Trump

JD Vance hasn’t mastered the art of the political holiday

August has given me time to think about how politicians holiday. Most of them do it badly

A prima facie case of judges at odds over Latin

Plus: a Leeds MP’s chatbot struggles with our Irish-themed questions; Pope Leo’s Duolingo streak; and a US TikTok star discovers Kerry GAA

UK homelessness minister resigns after tenant eviction claims

Reports that Rushanara Ali evicted London tenants before increasing rent by almost £700

Was Keir Starmer pushed on Palestinian statehood or did he wait for right moment?

Some of his MPs and ministers think British prime minister has responded too slowly to Gaza crisis

UK move to lower voting age to 16 unlikely to be in place for Northern Irish elections

First Minister Michelle O’Neill says UK law change is a ‘step forward for democracy’ but DUP opposes lowering voting age

New rows over old divisions in Labour before Westminster MPs take summer break

British prime minister Keir Starmer attempts to reassert authority but risks reopening wounds by suspending rebel MPs

UK and France agree one in, one out migrant returns scheme

French president blames Brexit for making it harder to tackle illegal migration

Jeremy Corbyn confirms plans to form new party

Former Labour leader says he will build ‘real alternative’ to Starmer together with MP Zarah Sultana

‘Worst of any prime minister’: Ten moments that defined Labour’s first year in power in the UK

From a ‘loveless landslide’ to excessive gloom and a climbdown forced by his own MPs, the UK prime minister has endured a torrid first 12 months in office

Welsh first minister Eluned Morgan sympathises with Rachel Reeves

Prime minister says tears were as a result of a ‘purely personal’ matter

The Irish Times view on Keir Starmer’s anniversary: little to cheer about

Will humility and mea culpas mollify angry voters? Probably not

Keir Starmer forced by his own MPs into embarrassing climbdown on disability cuts

Prime minister staves off defeat, but Labour rebels effectively gut government’s welfare reform legislation

Keir Starmer facing Labour rebellion on Tuesday despite caving in on disability benefit cuts

Labour rebels accuse British government of ‘rowing back’ on deal agreed last week

Starmer shifts welfare cuts to new applicants only, in bid to avert Labour rebellion

The UK prime minister rolled back planned cuts, making it tougher for new applicants only to collect some benefits

Irishman Morgan McSweeney: the softly-spoken chief of staff to Keir Starmer now facing questions

Chief of staff to UK prime minister argues government needs to head off Nigel Farage by leaning to the right

Trump’s perfectly landed swear word was his best performance yet

Politicians like Holly Cairns or Keir Starmer could meet the threat of the populist right with a lighter tone and a joke or two

Vote on Keir Starmer’s disability cuts Bill faces major challenge from Labour rebels

Government proposals to reduce spend on personal independence payments faces showdown moment

How the death of an ‘old boy from Ireland’ in London-Irish suburb sparked a misguided viral appeal

The death of Martin Fallon from Sligo recently sparked a viral post about Archway’s evolving Irish enclave

A Nigel Farage-led UK goverment could herald a united Ireland – Varadkar

Former taoiseach hopes Farage win does not happen, but Irish Government should be ‘just-in-case’ planning

Rory Stewart: Britons’ view of Ireland has gone from ‘patronising superiority to complete ignorance’

Ireland is the UK’s best route back to better ties with the EU, says the former Conservative minister

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