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COMMENT: If the new home secretary can succeed in closing migrant hotels and stopping the boats, she will single-handedly revive Labour’s fortunes – and she might also cement herself as Keir Starmer’s successor, says Simon Walters

An ambitious history of Britain’s volatile relationship with Europe, culminating in the 2016 referendum

With Reform exploiting tensions in society, Mahmood must address frustration about immigration

Tom McTague is one of the best contemporary writers on the intersection of domestic politics with wider events and the role of character and quirk in shaping what follows. In Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016, the writer turned New Statesman editor undertakes a…

Listen to the inflammatory language around immigration, multiculturalism, press freedom – that old notion of British ‘moderation’ has gone for ever, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Businessman who did what he could to revitalise British shipbuilding and motor manufacturing in the 1980s before returning to his native Canada

This money is then partly being funnelled to bank shareholders due to a ‘flawed’ policy design, a new report says

Hiking a levy on the profits of major firms could raise up to £8 billion a year for public services, the IPPR said.

IPPR says Rachel Reeves should also urge Bank to halt bond sales to reduce government losses of £22bn a year

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In today’s newsletter: ​The local tax remains based on property values from 1991. Now, with services stretched, ministers face the near-impossible task of rewriting the rules