Labour Party (UK)

Labour’s first UK budget in more than 14 years was a tax-and-spend bonanza with huge new outlays on health, transport and education

London Letter: Reeves will deliver a difficult budget in the House of Commons on Wednesday

London Letter: Tech workers pay big sums to rent small houses built in the shadows of Guinness Trust blocks of affordable homes

Worldview: The UK leaves the Chagos Islands much as it governed them, with a total disregard for the feelings or aspirations of its displaced indigenous people

The UK’s budget this month takes on near-totemic importance for Labour as it tries to reset the narrative

Campaigners such as Esther Rantzen, who has lung cancer, welcome the news that Westminster will debate a proposal to give terminally ill people to right to seek help ending their lives

Political strategist Mr McSweeney has been named chief of staff

It was leaked to the BBC that Gray was earning more than the UK prime minister in a series of briefings against her

Brexit and the sea border have dragged all aspects of trade with Northern Ireland into the zero-sum game of traditional politics

I began to suspect that many were thinking the same as me: that this wasn’t going to end well

In his conference speech at the Exhibition Centre in Liverpool, the new Labour prime minister tells racist rioters and their supporters: ' We see you and we reject you.’

Heckler interrupts the new chancellor’s speech in Liverpool

Party’s first event after 14 years in opposition was meant to be a celebration of election victory but risks being overshadowed

Starmer’s chief of staff Sue Gray is targeted by anonymous internal critics

The UK chancellor should explain how her programme is going to work

The row had a little bit for everybody in the audience as Westminster gets back to business

London Letter: Former Labour heavyweights David Miliband, Peter Mandelson are said to be contenders for the role of UK ambassador to Washington, along with Belfast Agreement negotiator Jonathan Powell

Voters must take more ‘than 10 seconds’ of interest in politics, says Marvin Rees, or live with the consequences

London Letter: Labour has scrapped controversial gradings that unions say placed intolerable strain on teachers

Fewer firms north of Border reporting concerns about inflation

Living in the UK almost 40 years, Peter Benson is thrilled about Labour’s election victory. ‘We have grown-ups in 10 Downing Street now,’ he writes

New Labour government could open door to future talks with EU on defence, trade checks and youth movement, but it will have to face down the right-wing domestic press

UK government acknowledges controversial legislation ‘denies justice to families and victims’

‘Fiscal lock’ tax and spending Bill promised, as well as ban on smoking and a new regulator for football clubs

The risk is that by the time there is a wider acceptance of the need to move more quickly on vital infrastructure projects, it will be too late

The problems of Ireland are ones the new UK Labour administration would love: too much money, large tax surpluses and politicians choosing where to spend

While the right-wing Tory factions meet to plan a ‘rebuild’, election winners gathered in parliament to be sworn in

Hundreds of brand new MPs descended on parliament this week after the election

Chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves gives her first speech at the Treasury

New British prime minister, however, makes no firm policy commitments as he meets party leaders in Belfast

To put it crudely, a big part of the appeal of Brexit was scale. It felt like a very big thing to do, just as, later in 2016, electing a celebrity non-politician to the White House felt big

New UK prime minister can expect warm welcome, but difficult decisions lie ahead

Mr Benn was speaking after meeting with Stormont leaders Michelle O’Neill and Emma Little-Pengelly

‘Honor of my life’ to be asked by king to form UK government after historic victory, says new prime minister

Keir Starmer is an antidote to the privileged Tories he has displaced but he will need to be ruthlessness and willing to upend policy

Hilary Benn named NI Secretary; Rishi Sunak says ‘sorry’ as he steps down as Conservative leader; Ian Paisley jnr loses seat

Raw politics and national interests will always triumph, but there is a basis for new Labour PM to work well with Ireland and Europe

Keir Starmer’s party turned the election map red - but secured fewer votes than in 2017 when led by Jeremy Corbyn

UK election: Labour’s ‘official unofficial’ election-watch festivities had wedding vibes, and then the DJ played D:Ream

Scottish Labour under Anas Sarwar has completed a Lazarus-like recovery