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By rowing back on commitments to free provision for children and the green new deal, the party is losing at the Tories’ toxic game, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

Party insiders say extra help for poorer families in England still on table as shadow ministers review policy options

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are cautious about spending plans. Rejoining the EU would create the prosperity to fund them

Opposition finds fallout of Liz Truss mini-budget has raised average mortgage interest payments by £150 a week in two years

The £28bn delay caps weeks of turmoil over Labour’s green ambitions, but if he’s serious about them, the leader will need to get used to it

Lynton Crosby, the Australian political strategist who has run multiple general election campaigns for the Conservatives, is a font of striking sayings. From the ‘dead cat strategy’ (see Michael Fallon) to the idea you ‘can’t fatten a pig on market day’. But right now, it’s all about another of his…

The argument that markets will react badly to borrowing doesn’t wash, says the former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Labour has watered down plans to spend £28bn a year on green investment after internal tensions over Labour’s flagship economic policy.

THE SNP leader has said the latest Labour U-turn will have “real and damaging consequences” for Scotland's green energy growth.