Labour Party (UK)

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‘It’s a fortress’: Is China building a mega embassy or a spy nest in London?

UK government, keen for better relations with China, has given go-ahead for sprawling new embassy despite security concerns

Keir Starmer’s allies launch ‘Stop Andy Burnham’ campaign to block parliamentary return

Resignation of a Manchester MP has triggered a byelection

EU seeking ‘Farage clause’ in Brexit ‘reset’ agreement with UK

Guarantee seen as means of ensuring bloc is not left out of pocket should Reform leader win general election

‘When you call people invaders, you are calling them the enemy. That sets a tone’

UK Labour peer says home secretary is ‘unnecessarily hardline’ on asylum seekers and he doesn’t ‘denigrate’ Reform voters

John Gapper: British business has an opportunity to defy the gloom

Entrepreneurs are more optimistic than the headlines are about the UK’s economic potential

Here’s the unpopular truth: many of us have never had it so good

Ireland has never been better off, yet a narrative of State failure dominates political debate and much of the media

Starmer under siege: the runners, riders and risks of Labour’s next power struggle

As polls worsen and MPs mutter about local elections, Labour’s factions are lining up their champions, from Wes Streeting to Angela Rayner

The UK’s prime minister, its king and their new annus horribilis

Keir Starmer’s 2025 was turbulent as Reform UK kept up the pressure, while King Charles dealt with the fallout of his brother Andrew’s association with Jeffrey Epstein

Palestine Action hunger strikes stir memories of the IRA in 1981

UK prime minister Keir Starmer faces a real Christmas dilemma as some hunger strikers are said to be near death

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

British government under Boris Johnson claimed the programme did not offer value for money during Brexit

‘This isn’t just a paint job’: Great British Railways is next stop for UK’s ‘national renewal’

Starmer’s Labour launches patriotic livery for proposed new state-owned operator in face of public anger over condition of network

Brexit’s back: Starmer flirts with EU as economic growth flatlines

UK prime minister says the notion that leaving the European Union would solve Britain’s woes has been ‘proven wrong’

Fish disco freakout: Starmer looks to change tune on obstacles to industrial investment

Laois man John Fingleton’s recommendations to cut the cost of nuclear development will be applied across Britain’s industrial strategy

Keir Starmer on the back foot: PM pleads for trust as budget backlash engulfs Labour

Claims of budget misrepresentation spark a bruising clash with Westminster press

British MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh corruption case

The verdict on former UK minister was delivered in absentia, local media reports

Daily Mail’s £500m bid for the Telegraph creates a right-wing bloc to rival Rupert Murdoch

The government in Westminster is wary of the potential risks of blocking a deal after two years of financial uncertainty for the Telegraph Media Group

Rachel Reeves avoids budget landmines but remains exposed unless economic growth kicks in

UK’s chancellor delivered her second successive tax-and-spend budget on Wednesday

All eyes on Reeves as she seeks £30bn to plug spending gap ahead of UK budget

All the leaking, pitch-rolling and backtracking in the pre-budget run-up has investors, employers and union bosses bewildered

SNP leader John Swinney: ‘Scotland and England are going in completely different directons’

Scotland’s nationalist first minister visits Dublin on Tuesday and Wednesday to talk economics, culture and space rockets

Britain’s asylum shake-up poses big problems for Ireland

What will happen to failed asylum applicants and migrants to the UK who have overstayed, and who can travel freely to Ireland?

Irish secret Troubles files can be shared with Northern legacy body, Minister says

New Garda unit agreed as part of Anglo-Irish deal to be created before end of year but will not investigate Troubles killings

Labour wrestles with its conscience over deportation of asylum seeker families

Kindertransport survivor calls policy ‘shabby’ as home secretary defends crackdown aimed at deterring Reform UK

Britain no longer guarantees support for ‘destitute’ asylum seekers under tough new regime

UK home secretary Shabana Mahmood says biggest overhaul of rules in decades is needed to stop ‘asylum shoppers’

UK toughens asylum policy in major overhaul as anti-immigration sentiment rises

Move by Keir Starmer’s Labour government seeks to stem rise of populist Reform UK party

Keir Starmer defies calls to sack Irish chief of staff Morgan McSweeney

Calls from Labour MPs for Irishman Morgan McSweeney’s resignation

Keir Starmer denies authorising ‘kneecap’ attack on health secretary amid leadership crisis

UK PM’s allies say he will fight attempts to replace him as Labour leader in advance of crucial budget

Tanita Tikaram: ‘The Beatles taught me to sing low’

The singer of Fijian and Malaysian descent penned her hit single, Twist in my Sobriety, when she was a ‘introverted, opinionated’ teenager

Zohran Mamdani and Catherine Connolly built their campaigns from similar playbooks

Ireland’s president-elect and New York’s incoming mayor succeeded in disrupting politics by building broad coalitions of disaffected voters

Downing Street backs Rachel Reeves after she apologises for letting home without licence

With crucial budget looming, chancellor faces pressure over ‘inadvertent mistake’

Complication for Keir Starmer as Lucy Powell wins Labour’s deputy leadership race

Manchester Central MP was sacked from UK cabinet in September

If Nigel Farage wins the next UK election, the consequences for Ireland will be profound

There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England

Labour unrest grows as Starmer faces pressure — could this rising MP be his successor?

Saxophone-playing former corporate lawyer Darren Jones has risen steeply through the ranks to become the PM’s right-hand man

Keir Starmer’s Labour suffers seismic byelection defeat to Plaid Cymru in Wales

Loss of Welsh assembly seat in stronghold deals blow to prime minister’s leadership

Labour’s stunning byelection loss in Wales shows parties who cannot adapt will be crushed

UK politics is moving at speed, with voter loyalties shifting and atomising in unprecedented ways

Caerphilly by-election to test Labour’s grip as Reform challenges Wales’ traditional politics

If Nigel Farage’s party wins, it will buttress its claim to be on course to win the next UK election

Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary says

Shabana Mahmood says public trust will be weakened unless politicians ‘bring order’ to immigration

How the SNP is finally getting over its post-Sturgeon hangover

Labour’s implosion and the rise of Reform UK has gifted the party a clear path back to power in next May’s Holyrood elections

‘Something is shifting’: Wales is on the verge of a political earthquake

Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru looks set to battle Reform UK to end a century of Labour political dominance

Kemi Badenoch pledges to rebuild Conservative Party’s reputation with debt ‘golden rule’

Tory leader outlines plan for reducing debt and fuelling growth as party seeks to move on from Truss-era turmoil

Revolut co-founder Nik Storonsky shifts his residency from UK to UAE

Change in billionaire’s country of residence disclosed in Companies House filing

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