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Labour’s links to gambling industry questioned again after decision not to raise tax rate for online gaming

As the conference unfolds, our chief political commentator John Rentoul has been answering your burning questions on the leadership contest, the fallout from the election defeat, and more

Speaking at Reform UK’s conference in Birmingham, Nigel Farage outlined plans to ‘professionalise and democratise’ the party

A deselected Christian candidate who is suing the Lib Dems has been told by the party that he must prove the truth of his faith in court

Britain’s third biggest party called for the UK to negotiate a free movement deal for 18 to 35-year olds with the European Union

A steady stream of day-trippers leave the railway station and head down to the seafront. Some shoppers and dawdlers detour through the picturesque cobbled streets of The Lanes. Others walk past the extraordinary Royal Pavilion, with its ornate domes and minarets, before reaching Brighton’s beach.

Local members collaborated to support a Lib Dem candidate. Green HQ’s response is a sad turn away from hope, says Neal Lawson, director of Compass

He was suspended in May 2019 after saying he would vote for the Liberal Democrats at the European elections

As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…

“Don’t let them see you cry,” is the kind advice from my Labour opponent. We’re standing in a small huddle; gathered around the Returning Officer as she briefs us on the votes counted in my former constituency of Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe. The worst has happened; I’ve lost my…

The party’s landslide victory on only 34% of the vote was a masterpiece of electoral Jenga. But the taller the tower, the weaker the base, writes Robert Ford