Editorial: Train services are essential to the health of the economy, society and environment. These proposals are pragmatic and welcome

Party wants to fully nationalise train network within five years of coming to power, in ‘biggest rail reform for a generation’

Shadow minister Steve Reed vows to uphold targets on biodiversity loss and protecting land and sea

Party plans to nationalise network and ‘unlock the trapped potential’ of rail to drive economic growth across the country

Polster suggests timescale of a potential vote depends on ‘uncertain’ politics and how a potential incoming labour government approaches relations with the EU

Exclusive: Three months after being suspended over a Holocaust Memorial Day post suggesting the Israeli action in Gaza is genocide, Kate Osamor will be welcomed back into the labour fold

labour has pledged the ‘biggest overhaul to our railways in a generation’ and said it would transfer rail networks to public ownership within five years

labour “can’t guarantee” their pledge to renationalise the railways if elected would bring in lower train fares, the shadow transport secretary has said. The party would expect to transfer rail networks to public ownership within its f ...

A labour government would expect to transfer rail networks to public ownership within its first term, the party will say.

The late elder statesman understood the need for a progressive realignment of British politics. That prize shouldn’t be lost, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

First minister reportedly plans to run minority administration amid dispute over decision to ditch climate change target

Kensington and Chelsea cllr Mona Adam defected to the Green Party in November last year

Denounced as giving a ‘veneer of legality to slaveholding’, the kafala labour code persists, allowing employers to abuse women, who vanish from society. This is the testimony of some of those workers, gathered over two years in a Guardian i ...

Renationalisation announced by shadow transport secretary, Louise Haigh, comes as most network contracts near expiry

Party pledges to bring all passenger rail – but not rolling stock – into public ownership as contracts with train operators expire

Deputy labour leader also criticises watering-down of leasehold reform plans while facing Oliver Dowden at deputy PMQs

Angela Rayner told Tory MPs to "stop obsessing" over her council tax and "get a grip" during a fiery Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, 24 April. The deputy labour leader's reply came after Oliver Dowden aime ...

Prime Minister’s Questions descended into chaos on Wednesday 24 April, as a Tory MP opened the session by attacking labour with a long-winded question. Jonathan Gullis stood to speak for 85 seconds, before asking deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden ...

Angela Rayner labelled Rishi Sunak a “pint-sized loser” as she claimed Boris Johnson was the Conservative Party’s “biggest election winner” during a heated Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) exchange. The labour deputy le ...

Watch live as deputy prime minister Oliver Dowden clashes with labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday 24 April.