The Latest Breaking News from Sir Keir Starmer

Brief letters: Post abolished | Bad policing | Easy money | Truss’s blame game

Securing the Windsor Framework, rejoining Horizon Europe, ditching plans for a new post-Brexit UK product safety symbol. Is Britain embarking on a remorseless march towards de facto EU membership? The short answer is: no. The long answer is: really, no, but also you’re asking the wrong question.

The figure is higher than the £6 million daily cost cited by Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Commons on Monday.

THE SNP have insisted Labour’s new work and pensions secretary must clarify the party’s position on “cruel” Tory social security policies…

You don’t easily forget an encounter with Emmanuel Macron. Mine was brief and in private, at the G7 summit in Germany last year. His hand was firm but he held my gaze even more tightly. A Downing Street colleague got a wink that she will cherish for ever — Gallic…

Starmer’s Labour faces a very different Conservative Party to the one Miliband faced in 2015

Prime Minister’s satisfaction rating plumbs depths – but there’s no groundswell of support for the Labour leader either, exclusive Ipsos survey for the Evening Standard finds

Rishi Sunak’s government seen as less competent that Boris Johnson’s administration

The party needs a radical approach if it wants to be seen as any more than a tactical vote to get rid of the Tories, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee