Labour is facing allegations of cronyism after appointing several of its backers to prominent civil service roles. Ian Corfield, a former banker who has donated over £20,000 to Labour politicians, ...

Donald Trump, winter fuel payment cuts, and pensions – these are the topics Labour canvassers have been wrestling with on doorsteps in the run-up to the local elections this week. The latest polls put ...

Britain is drowning in debt. With the interest bill alone now running at well over £100bn a year, we are barely managing to ...

It seems every day I wake up to a new violent attack in the UK. Raised on endless debates about gun violence and school ...

Despite the significant fall in Labour’s support in the polls, the party hoped to escape without much visible damage in the local elections on Thursday. After all, most of the seats at stake were ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Harriet Harman has complained that it’s ‘so hard making progress for women, in government and public policy’ - Simon Dawson/No 10 ...

Labour is holding its 2025 conference against a backdrop of Andy Burnham, mayor of Manchester, calling for “wholesale change”. Burnham is making a clear attempt to use the government’s record of ...

No other sector of education — tertiary, primary, early childhood — none of them has got the amount of funding that HEART has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite the significant fall in Labour’s support in the polls, the party hoped to escape without much visible damage in the local ...