The Latest Breaking News from Jess Phillips

With days to go to the UK’s general election, our critic listens to Starmer and Sunak face LBC’s listeners and dips into the big-name political podcasts

James Corden and Anna Maxwell Martin are starring in The Constituent, a play that asks if MPs are no longer safe. Here, its writer explores what politicians wearing stab vests means for democracy

Exclusive: ‘He smashed the house up. There was blood smeared up the walls,’ says domestic abuse victim

The We Deserve Better campaign is guilty of promoting an absurd narrative

You would be stunned at how many women in this city fear being raped or being seriously sexually assaulted. That’s because, in my experience, so many women have either actually been sexually assaulted or know somebody who has. This fear impacts every aspect of our lives and I can tell…

Newest Labour MP apologises for comments about Charlie Elphicke’s victims amid criticism of her admission to party

This goes far beyond a Tory donor’s racist comments about Diane Abbott, and Labour’s opportunistic response, says sociology professor Gary Younge

Ms Abbott has sat as an independent MP since April after the Labour whip was withdrawn

Beth Rigby, Jess Phillips and Ruth Davidson talk politics; the Guardian’s Michael Safi explores AI’s beauty and horror. Plus, two great music programmes – one in Irish

Former PM says she wants to focus on causes close to her heart after 27 years in parliament

Labour MP says she is ‘tired of fighting for systemic change and being given scraps’ and laments ‘collective failure’