For years, Britain’s right-wing newspapers have portrayed London as a city spiralling into lawlessness. Stories about violent crime, phone thefts and failing policing have been staples of the news ...
The Labour Party is continuing to surge in the polls, as Nigel Farage’s Reform UK slumps, in what will be welcome news for Andy Burnham. According to the latest poll by YouGov, Labour is on 27%, ...
Rejoining the EU should be the UK's medium term goal if it wants to protect its prosperity, security and democratic institutions and the public would support rejoining, an influential centre-left ...
This is an attack on our freedom of speech and the right to protest from the very institutions who are supposed to encourage free thought." ...
We go into the Autumn Budget with millions of people still being hammered by what feels like a never-ending cost-of-living crisis. But while ordinary people struggle to cover the cost of life’s ...
It just goes from bad to worse for Nigel Farage. The Reform UK leader has implied that the reason his party members and councillors have expressed racist and bigoted views is because they didn’t go ...
“The underlying inadequacy of support means that the 10.1% April 2023 inflation-increase to Universal Credit and cost of living payments fails to compensate for a 10% increase in the costs people face ...
Ex-Reform UK councillors who have been exposed for making extreme racist, Islamophobic and sexist remarks are facing calls from other councillors to resign their council seats. In Solihull, the Greens ...
For a newspaper so fond of predicting disaster, Express front pages offer a timely reminder that its political certainties have a habit of ageing badly.
This week, after perfunctory scrutiny, the UK parliament approved a core Sovereign Grant of £99.9m (from 2027/28) for the King, a 93% increase from the £51.8m for 2024/25 and 65% higher in real terms ...
The big themes of the week 1. Immigration and asylum: keeping the pressure on The asylum debate remains a major focus, with coverage of proposed accommodation for asylum seekers near Piddington and ...
Andy Burnham has become the first Prime Minister to confirm that Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit referendum, saying that it was ‘clearly involved’. He made the unprecedented comments during an ...