It is why the Spring Statement and subsequent spending review in June is viewed by MPs as a risk for Rayner. As both Housing ...

The last time a Labour chancellor – Alistair Darling – warned of tough times ahead, the “forces of hell”, in his words, were ...

THE letter from Neil Findlay to Labour leader Keir Starmer was a heartfelt cri de coeur. A Labour activist over many decades and campaigns, ...

COMMENT: Party members love the energy secretary, but Keir Starmer has already demonstrated his ruthlessness, says ...

If the right unites, especially if Dominic Cummings, the inveterate plotter and ‘strategic genius’ (Barnard Castle rather undermined the genius label) gets into bed with Farage, the left could be in ...

T HERE’S an old, perhaps apocryphal, story told about Michael D Higgins, long before his presidency, which those who read ...

I thought of it again when the Home Office published a report celebrating its ‘UK-wide blitz on illegal working to strengthen border security’ as part of a publicity drive designed to coincide with ...

Journalists Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund chronicle both events in their book Get In, which charts the influence of Morgan McSweeney, Starmer’s Machiavellian Irish-born fixer in the Labour ...

Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin (d.1791) was the toyboy of Catherine the Great who allegedly tried to impress his empress by ...