Badenoch has a new favourite word: work
After Nigel Farage’s address on Reform’s tax plans yesterday and Rachel Reeves’s effort to lay the groundwork for the Budget…
What does Rachel Reeves really mean that we must all ‘do our bit’?
It is three weeks until the Budget – and Rachel Reeves wants to get her narrative out there. The Chancellor…
Farage: Trust me with the economy
With Reform leading in the polls, Nigel Farage is determined to ensure that nothing can impede its growth. This morning…
Which party has the crypto factor?
He helped ‘break’ the Bank of England – but now Scott Bessent is helping to shape its future. As a…
Revealed: how PM Farage wants to govern
Six weeks after his defection from the Tories, Danny Kruger will tomorrow set out his thinking on how a Reform…
Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership race
Lucy Powell has won Labour’s deputy leadership election, beating her rival Bridget Phillipson. The result was announced this morning after…
The battle for Farage’s mind
If New Labour was Margaret Thatcher’s greatest achievement, then Reform UK is perhaps Tony Blair’s. Distaste for the three-time election…
Plaid Cymru storms to victory in Caerphilly
The Welsh nationalists have won almost half the vote in the Caerphilly by-election, storming to a victory in a seat…
Why Sheridan Westlake is the Tories’ best weapon
Who is responsible for Labour’s recent woes? For some Conservatives, the answer is obvious – Sheridan Westlake. He is that…
Prince Andrew stops using his titles
Prince Andrew’s humiliation is near-complete. He has tonight agreed to immediately stop using his Duke of York title after ‘discussion…
The Tories smell blood in the China spy case saga
The Prime Minister is in Egypt today at a peace summit aimed at ending the Gaza war. The question of…
Revealed: the Lib Dems’ plan for Tory defectors
Reform UK’s momentum is influencing other parties too. The Greens voted overwhelmingly to elect Zack Polanski last month, partly on…
Badenoch’s conference speech will calm Tory jitters
Kemi Badenoch wrapped up Conservative conference with a well-received speech that was bursting with policy ideas. The Tory leader’s hour-long…
Robert Jenrick steals the limelight at Tory conference
It is day three of Conservative Party conference and the punchiest speech of the event has just been made. Robert…
Will this be Kemi’s last conference?
The Conservative party conference kicks off today in Manchester. Dominating the headlines is the long-awaited announcement that the next Tory…
Inside London’s embassy parties
Like the new school year, ambassadors to Britain usually change each September. Among those leaving this summer are the German,…
Starmer has bought himself time. Can he use it wisely?
The Labour conference in Liverpool was a curiously upbeat affair. Much of the good spirit came from schadenfreude at the…
The political climate suits Wes Streeting right now
Timing is everything in politics. So it was intriguing to see Wes Streeting – the great hope of Labour moderates…
Rachel Reeves takes the fight to Reform
The Chancellor has just finished her speech at the Labour party conference. It has been a pretty torrid 12 months…
Keir Starmer: Reform’s migration policy is ‘racist’
Labour conference has begun this weekend in Liverpool under something of a cloud. The run-up to the five-day shindig has…
Panic and plotting inside Labour conference
The Labour party returns to Liverpool this weekend for its annual four-day jamboree. Twelve months after a dismal conference, dominated…
What’s really behind Reform’s rise
It is the question dominating bars and fringe debates this party conference season: what exactly is driving Reform UK’s popularity?…
Labour unveils its Reform fightback
After a summer of drift, Labour today launches a fresh fightback against the rise of Reform UK. Leading the charge…
Burnham fires warning shot at Starmer
Labour conference begins on Sunday. Keir Starmer is under fire, besieged by all sides. The party’s left think he is…
Ed Davey savages Nigel Farage in his Lib Dem conference speech
Liberal Democrats have been looking forward all summer to Sir Ed Davey’s party conference speech. For months, Nigel Farage’s Cheshire…
