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Across Britain, the impact of austerity has reached breaking point, but few believe Labour will turn things around

Public servant who spearheaded the regeneration of post-industrial Manchester as the city council’s chief executive

With a campaign slogan of “change”, Keir Starmer is on a mission to persuade the electorate that the Labour party of 2024 is different to the one of 2019. Part of this is his unequivocal “triple lock” commitment to Trident, the UK’s nuclear weapon system.

Starmer’s chief of staff came with a reputation as an inquisitor and is not one to work in the shadows

New research shows that the UK public sector has a worrying amount of security debt, and it will take a while to fix

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Martin Kettle on Britain’s democracy and governance

As much as the seven-volume report that it launched, Sir Brian Langstaff’s remarkable speech yesterday at the Methodist Central Hall in Westminster was a milestone in the history of the modern British state. Its specific theme was the contaminated blood scandal in which 30,000 people were infected with HIV or…

Also accuses prime minister Rishi Sunak of delivering a ‘bullshit’ apology for the scandal

A £10 bn compensation package is set to be outlined in parliament today for all those affected by the blood scandal