Work and pensions secretary says the current system is flawed because it consigns too many people to a life on benefits when they would be better off working‘I can deliver’: Burnham pledges radical change on eve of Labour...
Read MoreThe deputy leader wants the party to take advantage of a split on the right and not be embarrassed to show its valuesLabour must “reunite the progressive voter coalition” if it is to take advantage of a split on the right and...
Read MoreResolution Foundation says households outside London are paying hundreds of pounds a year more in council tax than they would be under a fair systemTim Shipman has written about what will be coming up at the Labour conference...
Read MoreShabana Mahmood says the failure to intercept the two boats was ‘not acceptable’The Survation MRP polling also explores the views of the various different voter types Labour would need for a “progressive majority”. Ashley Kirk...
Read MorePolling suggests Andy Burnham is attracting progressives back to Labour, motivated by desire to stop Nigel FarageProgressive voters could push Reform UK into fourth place and put Labour within touching distance of a majority if...
Read MoreThe poll shows Reform UK ‘neck-and-neck’ with the Conservative partyGood morning. Andy Burnham and Kemi Badenoch are both preparing for their party conferences (next week, and the following week, respectively), and this morning...
Read MoreFarage referred to the new unit and said Burnham was setting it up ‘using the excuse that Russia wants to interfere with elections’The former Labour minister leading the government’s review into youth unemployment has written to...
Read More‘Radical’ report likely to influence party’s platform also proposes abolishing inheritance and capital gains taxesA thinktank linked to Reform UK has called for the abolition of the state pension and £75bn worth of sweeping tax...
Read MoreLib Dem leader tells party conference that ‘something big and dangerous is happening in our country’If Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump later (which he doesn’t), he could bring along a...
Read MoreBurnham is heading to New York for the United Nations general assemblyIf Andy Burnham wanted to inject some edge into his meeting with Donald Trump later (which he doesn’t), he could bring along a copy of today’s Financial...
Read MoreHelen Jenner replaces Dan Thomas, who stood down after his arrest on suspicion of assault, but gets warm words from NigelTwenty-five or so Reform members of the Senedd were lined up against a wall. Almost as if they were in a...
Read MoreNigel Farage dismisses loss of previous leader as ‘bump in the road’ and says party will ‘carry on as if nothing had happened’UK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage dismissed the loss of Reform UK’s leader in Wales last...
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