Drubbing for Tories in next week’s local elections could force Sunak’s hand

Starmer wants to make Tory policy on the economy a central theme of its election campaign … without mentioning Brexit

Thursday’s local elections are a chance for Keir Starmer to show his party’s breadth of support – not least in the embattled PM’s North Yorkshire

Politicians who speak their minds and believe what they say are so rare that voters will forgive them almost anything

Rumours of an early election, despite labour’s lead in opinion polls, being used to keep unruly Conservative MPs in check

Dr Dan Poulter, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, says he could no longer look his NHS colleagues in the eye and remain a Tory

The former Tory health minister has defected to labour over the crisis in the NHS and has rightly called for an early election

As first minister Humza Yousaf fights to stay in power, sources believe fallout from defunct coalition could help labour win seats at general election

As an MP and psychiatrist, I see the burden that a service near breaking point takes on patients, their families and healthcare colleagues, writes Dan Poulter

Ex-health minister Dan Poulter who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’

Scotland’s under-fire first minister has insisted he will not resign, despite facing a vote of no confidence in his leadership. The Scottish Conservatives have put forward the motion of no confidence in Humza Yousaf, while labour has submitted a si ...

Policy in Rhayader could be reversed after labour-led Welsh government announced possible return to 30mph across country

labour mayor’s lead over Tory rival has narrowed in week before mayoral election in the capital

Scotland’s first minister faces motions of no confidence from labour and the Conservatives after ending his power-sharing deal with the Green party

The mayor says he would like more control over taxes raised in London if he were re-elected on May 2

Scotland’s leader has cancelled a speech as he fights for his political life in the wake of his decision to pull the plug on a three-year power-sharing agreement

The labour leader needs to stop counting the cost of investing in railways – and see the costs of not doing so, says Dr Tom Haines-Doran, author of Derailed

Humza Yousaf was due to speak about the labour strategy in an independent Scotland, but cancelled the plans amid a growing crisis in his leadership

Museums have closed and festivals lost funding – but labour will restore Britain’s creative superpower status, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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