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The Tories and Labour both withdrew support for candidates being investigated by the Gambling Commission – The Independent speaks to local party supporters who had been campaigning for them, and to voters

SCOTTISH Labour candidates have failed to put their name to a campaign group’s key pledge against NHS privatisation.

The 2024 election has seen party leaders strain to present themselves as being in touch with the struggles ordinary people are facing in the cost of living crisis. And yet they don’t appear to be convincing anyone.

One dominant theme in the recent UK election debates has been regeneration and how to tackle regional inequality. Amid Labour’s plans to kickstart economic growth, the party has ditched the phrase “levelling up” and promised instead to “power up Britain” though a proposed take back control act, which would seek…

LABOUR hold a five-point lead over the SNP in a new Scotland-only Westminster poll...

Study reveals support for measures to maintain public services, regardless of impact on household finances

The politics of resentment are attractive to a generation that has known so much precarity, says Guardian Saturday commissioning editor Sasha Mistlin

Should Sir Keir Starmer emerge as prime minister on Friday morning, he can consider it a job remarkably well done. In the nearly five years since securing the Labour leadership, Sir Keir has transformed the party from a parliamentary rump under investigation by the Equality and Human Rights Commission over…

The man behind the Harris Federation of schools says the “torch of change” has passed to Labour