The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the deputy prime minister’s influence ...

"To launch a political party is quite something," said Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail. "To bungle the launch of one," though, requires a special type of incompetence. This was on full display last ...

Starmer's on a charm offensive. But his rank and file think No 10's 'a mess' and are contemptuous of their frontbench ...

Keir Starmer has come under pressure over claims more state pensioners will be forced to pay income tax. Conservative leader ...

After the disastrous end to his first year in power, the football-loving PM starts his second 0-2 down. But he won’t get back in the game by pretending to be someone he is not, writes Andrew Grice ...

General secretary of Unite Union Sharon Graham has called on Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Government to "wake up and smell the ...

He was one of a handful of outstanding Conservative Cabinet ministers who gave Margaret Thatcher vital support in her crusade ...

Migrants waiting to cross the Channel yesterday laughed at the notion the Government's new deal with France would stop the ...

Unite, the UK’s largest union, has moved to suspend deputy prime minister Angela Rayner and re-examine its relationship with ...

Keir Starmer condemned for forcing delay to his own legislation designed to prevent repeats of Hillsborough-style tragedies.

As Britain’s Institute for Fiscal Studies has noted, recurrent net wealth taxes are a poor substitute for properly taxing the sources and use of wealth. In the UK, that should include further reforms ...

The Prime Minister maintains solid support for now, but that could potentially slip if he avoids taking unpopular but ...