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Liam Byrne has warned the chancellor that extra levies on the rich are needed to halt the rise of the populist right

Trade committee head Liam Byrne wants checks on firm’s possible supply chain links to forced labour

Emily Thornberry becomes head of foreign select committee, while Karen Bradley is sole Conservative given leading role

Rachel Reeves had hardly stepped down from the dispatch box to make her first big statement as chancellor of the exchequer before facing a furious backlash. She had claimed to have discovered a £22bn hole in public finances upon taking office and was using it to explain why the new…

Carefully honed message of Commons speech is having to make tricky decisions because Tories left us a mess

Kyle Gass’s ill-judged Donald Trump assassination jibe has put Tenacious D on ice. Will he be for ever cancelled, or bounce back like Billy Connolly and Jo Brand?

Party leadership plans to stay in campaign mode and make sure public is aware how much ex-government has tied its hands

IN Scotland, the use of electric scooters in public spaces is simultaneously illegal and entirely commonplace.

How the occupants of No 10 brought us austerity, Brexit, Partygate and an economic crash

Having initially vowed to oppose any offensive, Washington and London are showing signs of having backed down

Capitalism seems to enable companies to see staff as expendable units, not humans