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Ms Abbott has sat as an independent MP since April after the Labour whip was withdrawn

Hester may be the Tories’ biggest donor, but this is not only an issue for one party as the Forde inquiry showed, says Diane Abbott MP

In many tetchy exchanges Susanna Reid and Richard Madeley struggled to get a straight answer out of the Left-winger, long a supporter of the Palestinians

Wilson lived at the house between 1956 and 1964, when he was elected as prime minister

Voters in the northern English town of Rochdale go to the polls Thursday in a by-election that has roiled the Labour Party with a new anti-Semitism controversy. Britain’s main opposition party was the clear favourite until its candidate was disowned for espousing conspiracy theories about Israel. The row recalls the…

In today’s newsletter: Successive governments’ failure to implement a solution to energy efficiency has serious consequences for fuel poverty – Labour’s U-turn doesn’t help

Sir Keir Starmer’s party has shifted its stance to back a call for an ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’

The most working class leader of the Labour party for a generation, he is well ahead in the polls, but still a mystery to many. His biographer reveals what drives this unusual politician

The sheer velocity with which Keir Starmer has led the Labour Party from the brink of extinction to the brink of power is unprecedented in the modern era. And – just in time – this excellent biography arrives in what is all but certain to be an election year.