Keir Starmer

The PM could have been like Nixon in China, but his Brexit caution appears to have ruled that out

Labour’s caution over the EU’s youth mobility proposals is damaging a reset of relations – and is founded in irrationality

Labour must deliver policies that make people glad they voted for a new government

The Democrats’ vice-presidential candidate has put Trump on the back foot by pointing out his weirdness. Would this approach have the same effect on Farage?

Baseless rumours about the PM, Lord Alli and a court order are a right wing fantasy fuelled by grifter ‘journalists’ and social media

The former Tory PM had no idea what he was doing on Europe. If the present PM hasn’t learned from the mistakes of the past, he is doomed to repeat them

The PM would prefer a Harris victory, but snubbing the Republican would have been dereliction of duty

Ministers are kicking back over Freebiegate, but Fleet Street loves nothing more than a story that runs and runs

The prime minister must stop giving the media the chance to go into frenzy or outrage mode

The new prime minister’s government has started with worrying echoes of how his predecessor’s ended

The double whammy of losing the fuel allowance and the hike in first-class post will lead to far fewer cards being sent and received this year

The prime minister rejected a reset and instead fell back on old themes in his Labour conference speech

Sponsors’ stalls at the party’s Liverpool get-together shows how much the political axis has shifted

What the right wing papers and the far left think doesn’t matter, but a hurting public’s judgement counts

The one thing you can rely on at party get-togethers is lots of booze

Our digest of the worst of Westminster looks at Owen Paterson, Graham Brady, Dan Wootton and more

UK government debt is set to treble catastrophically in the next 50 years. Can Labour do anything about it?

It is part of Labour's challenge to make sure the public never forget this reality

That Keir Starmer has been letting a millionaire buy him and his wife clothes is not some life-shattering betrayal, but it is a betrayal nonetheless

Labour could have made a much better argument over the scrapping of the winter fuel allowance. But it didn’t. Big mistake

Everyone wants to regulate lobbying – even the lobbyists. Why won’t Labour do it?

Starmer has a new tune and he’s not afraid to sing it, over and over again…

If Labour does bring in a smoking ban in beer gardens, how many non-smokers will start using them again?

Starmer’s decision to cut heating benefits for pensioners is woeful politics, and Labour MPs are in despair

There were difficult questions today for the prime minister, even if Keir Starmer kept forgetting who that was

Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher

Our armed forces are not fit for purpose. Here’s how to fix them

Many of us are hoping the prime minister's policy doesn't stray from pragmatic to heavy-handed