The Treasury dismisses any talk of a return to austerity. To Labour critics calling for Reeves to raise taxes or loosen her ...

John McDonnell has directly challenged Keir Starmer on the two-child benefit cap.

A lack of consensus on Israel has paralysed the EU.

A decent rubric for knowing when a TV show has become part of the zeitgeist is when people feel the need to publicly comment on the fact they don’t like it. No one, that I recall, has ever told me ...

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In 2005, Tony Blair said debating globalisation was as worthwhile as debating whether autumn followed summer. Twenty years ...

Climate conscious MPs could begin to organise if they remain unhappy with the government's direction of travel.

The development was revealed at the High Court, where judges were deciding whether to allow a judicial review which criticised Wes Streeting’s failure to restrict the medications already. The New ...

The public, however, have a more balanced view. Most people are not really bothered by immigration in general, according to a ...

The former Labour prime minister speaks to the New Statesman Podcast about how the government can reduce levels of child poverty.

The general view, even among the left-leaning, is that Britain has been operating with an inflow of immigrants over and above what is palatable for far too long now. Not one year this century has the ...