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If disillusionment is all Keir Starmer delivers as prime minister, I fear Labour will shrivel and die

It’s as if the leader is deleting all the reasons to vote for his party, and bowing to a destructive rightwing agenda, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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‘The ultimate protest against Labour’: George Galloway’s bid to win Rochdale

Labour’s 9,668 majority in Greater Manchester seat challenged by Galloway’s Gaza-focused campaign

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Bring back Boris Johnson, Kwasi Kwarteng tells Rishi Sunak

Ex-chancellor calls on Sunak to ‘swallow some pride’ and bring back ‘electoral force’ that is former PM

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Gove says Sunak was right to attack Labour U-turns after trans jibe criticism

The PM’s comment, made while the mother of murdered transgender teenager Brianna Ghey was in Parliament, sparked a backlash.

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By ditching its green plan Labour reveals its ideological vacuum

Keir Starmer will now be appealing to voters on the basis it can run the status quo better than the Tories

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Scuttling his flagship green policy, Sir Keir Starmer has imperilled his credibility

This sorry saga is not encouraging if it is a precedent for how Labour will handle the hard choices that it will face in government

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Are older, richer voters really against big spending? Maybe not as much as Labour fears

Starmer desperately wants to win back the trust of a crucial, and famously cautious, demographic. But support for public investment is growing, writes economics editor Philip Inman

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‘The mother of all U-turns’: after Labour’s £28bn green policy climbdown, what’s left?

Labour’s spending pledge war is over. Some believe the party’s election campaign will be stronger. Others wonder if Starmer and Reeves now stand for anything at all

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We’ve given up the fight, say top Tories as byelection defeats loom

Senior Conservative says party has descended into ‘death spiral’ as poll losses set to fuel fresh attacks on Sunak’s leadership

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The Observer view: Labour’s green U-turn has threatened its plan for growth

The party’s decision to drop a commitment to spending £28bn a year will have a negative effect on its other investment plans

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Labour MPs facing wave of independent challengers over stance on Gaza

Well-funded candidates are being chosen to stand against the party’s MPs who have failed to back an immediate ceasefire

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Disastrous Truss budget forced UK councils to take out massive 50-year loans at soaring rates

Debt Management Office figures show lasting impact of mini-budget that spooked financial markets, says Labour’s Angela Rayner

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Starmer Faces Rising Criticism Over Plans To Drop £28 Billion Green Investment Pledge

Starmer is expected to argue that it will not affect specific pledges on improving home energy efficiency and decarbonising the national grid by 2030.

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Rishi Sunak ‘up for the fight’ as Tories continue to lag in the polls

PM renews promise to cut taxes a day after revelation that he paid effective tax rate of 23% on his £2.2m income

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Mhairi Fraser: the rising Tory force who was bowled over by Trump

She starred at PopCon with a tirade against Covid lockdowns, and she may shape the Conservatives’ post-Sunak trajectory

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Major Tory donor among 13 new peers named in honours list

Entrepreneur Stuart Marks reportedly featured on – but was removed from – Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list

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Local authority leaders criticise Sunak’s call for ‘restrained’ council tax rises

Prime minister’s comments ‘remarkable’ given government cuts to town hall funding in England, say LGA bosses

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The frightening thing is not that Tories are paraded as more fiscally competent. It’s that even Labour believes it

Abandoning its £28bn green plan betrays a lack of self-belief that has long bedevilled the party, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Remaining Labour policies face ‘bombproof’ test to finalise manifesto

Huge cut to £28bn green pledge is part of Keir Starmer’s scrutiny of proposals in time for a possible May election

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Kemi Badenoch says death threats intensified after Nadine Dorries book

Business secretary says conspiracy theory about ‘plotters’ dangerous in hands of violent, unbalanced people

Evening Standard

London mayoral election: Lib Dem candidate Rob Blackie would scrap 'phoney' TfL fare freeze

Rob Blackie said he would put the money saved into policing instead

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Starmer’s £28bn green plan was bungled but Labour still has bold hopes for the country – and the planet

Even if pared back, the party still has the only real growth policy in town, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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'Come back' Boris: Minister urges ex-PM to rejoin fight as Tories trail Labour in the polls

Science minister Andrew Griffith reached out to Boris Johnson to help the Conservatives in getting their messages across to voters

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Jeremy Hunt may launch ‘British Isa’ investing in UK company shares

Chancellor hints at tax-free plan for budget as part of efforts to revive country’s stock market

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Dropping of £28bn pledge marks a shift in Reeves’s entire economic philosophy

Rachel Reeves had promised to spend big to be Britain’s first green chancellor. Now she wants to spend as little public money as possible

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