Labour Party (UK)

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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

Right turn in Manchester: Tories chase Reform UK – and risk losing their own centre

Conservative leader needs her big speech on Wednesday to land well as hard right-leaning shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick waits in the wings

Tories’ future as political party capable of governing is at stake: ‘It is that serious’

Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference

‘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

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