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New Modernisation Committee will also look at new rules on bullying and sexual harassment in drive to improve MPs’ behaviour

Rabid Trussonomics or naked nativism? With the race down to four runners, here’s my guide to a party reeling in two directions, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

Exclusive: Trump’s bizarre debate performance ranting about immigrants eating cats and dogs has been met with a muted response from his supporters in the UK

Soon-to-depart Sunak presses PM over winter fuel payments, before Starmer heads to Washington for talks with soon-to-depart President Biden

Media regulator describes change as a ‘generational shift in the balance of news media’

PM expected to make clear in key Brighton speech that he will not risk economic stability ‘under any circumstances’

Exclusive: TUC president Matt Wrack tells The Independent the rise of Nigel Farage and summer riots should be ‘a wake up call’ for Keir Starmer to ‘bring hope not austerity’

The party has faced crisis before, but this feels different. It’s a battle for not much, says writer and Tory historian Geoffrey Wheatcroft

In parliament, a coalition of leftwing MPs dissatisfied with Labour is building. It could become a real power, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

We are nonplussed every time one emerges – but there are patterns that are totally predictable, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

Wherever you are on the political spectrum, shoplifting has come to symbolise today’s “broken Britain”. On the left, it is an inevitable product of the cost of living crisis and poverty, fuelled in part by growing levels of drug and alcohol addiction. On the right, it is a damning symptom…