Exclusive: Litigation such as that spearheaded by Alan Bates could become harder if advice from senior figure at labour peer’s Global Counsel given effect

While the Conservatives have given up, Rachel Reeves didn’t make the alternative sound exciting. But maybe that’s OK

Editorial: Rachel Reeves missed a chance to recast a policy that cuts government spending while shovelling state cash into private banks

Shadow chancellor and London mayor admit party’s local election losses were linked to its response to Middle East conflict

labour pressed deputy foreign minister Andrew Mitchell on arms sales to Israel as he responded to an urgent question in the Commons

Letters: Readers respond to the party’s watered-down plan to appease businesses

A Tory MP has suggested labour will win the general election. Paul Scully, who is standing down at the next vote, shared a bleak outlook for Rishi Sunak's government. "There is a scenario we can get to, if we come up with a vision and sell ...

labour will fight the next election on the economy, the shadow chancellor has said as she dismissed suggestions the UK was heading for a hung parliament. In a speech in the City of London on Tuesday 7 April, Rachel Reeves said her party would use eve ...

Miatta Fahnbulleh is running for parliament – and, as a black female economist, hopes to broaden parliament’s outlook on ‘the rules of the game’

After 11 years, the feud between Kendrick Lamar and Drake is still making waves. Maybe labour and the Tories need to release their own ‘diss tracks’

The Muslim Vote, which aims to organise voters against MPs who did not back a ceasefire in the conflict, has called for the labour leader to apologise for his early stance on Israel’s campaign against Hamas

Shadow chancellor accuses ministers of deluded and out of touch statements on economy

Shadow chancellor calls Tory message of improving economy ’deluded’

Starmer and Reeves have created 2020s version of party’s 1990s ‘prawn cocktail offensive’ – and business appears hungry for it

Shadow chancellor will highlight labour’s plans to boost economy and say Conservatives are ‘out of touch’

PM ‘absolutely determined to fight’ despite Tories’ disastrous local election results and labour poll lead

Exclusive: As furious plotters accused their colleagues of ‘giving up on beating labour’ and ‘accepting their fate’, as efforts to topple Mr Sunak stalled, the PM invited backbenchers to attend ‘local elections presentations’ later this m ...

Matt Wrack, the president of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has told The Independent that a crunch meeting has been arranged with Starmer over reports labour’s workers rights policy document has “been watered down”.

Sadiq Khan and Andy Burnham won elections in areas with large Muslim populations. Both engaged with us as citizens, says Miqdaad Versi of the Muslim Council of Britain

Tory rebels have urged the Prime Minister to change political course rightwards after a local election drubbing