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SCOTTISH Labour’s by-election candidate's claim that he will go against Keir Starmer on controversial policies has been branded "not good…

Failure to support women affects productivity. Neglect of female voters could also cost Labour crucial votes, says Ignacia Pinto of the Women’s Budget Group thinktank

Michael Shanks described the UK’s two-child benefit cap and so-called bedroom tax as ‘heinous’ policies at the launch of his by-election campaign.

THE Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election “is about independence”, the First Minister has insisted, as he set out a “stark choice” for…

Rishi Sunak’s announcement that he will allow more drilling in the North Sea has led to new questions over the future of UK energy policy.

JACKIE Baillie has insisted that Scottish Labour are running the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election campaign during a heated exchange with a…

It has become a common complaint among some Labour supporters that Keir Starmer and shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves are being too cautious about their spending commitments in preparing for a future Labour government. At a recent national policy forum, the leadership clashed with the party’s left, which argued against “fiscal…

RELATIONS between the Labour leadership and the party’s powerful regional mayors are reportedly under strain as Keir Starmer attempts to silence…

What the three largest parties have committed, one year out from a general election

When he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak hung a portrait of his predecessor Nigel Lawson behind his desk. This signalled how deeply he identified with the great tax-cutter, champion of privatisation and believer in popular capitalism. But it is also worth recalling that Lawson, who died in April,…

If Labour’s leader only targets hereditary peers, the likes of Charlotte Owen and others who shouldn’t even be there will survive, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan