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Keir Starmer says Iran conflict ‘not our war’ as he blasts Reform chief Nigel Farage

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

‘Nigel Farage and Kemi Badenoch for wanting to ‘dive in with both feet into the war without thinking through the consequences’.

Keir Starmer in Downing Street

Green Party sets sights on targeting trade union members disillusioned with Labour

Olivia Barber
Yesterday

Zack Polanski is set to make keynote speeches at several trade union conferences

Zack Polanski speaking at Green Party conference

Reform’s Zia Yusuf in meltdown when asked about growing number of candidate scandals

Basit Mahmood
Yesterday

The right-wing party has lost at least 67 candidates since May 2025,

Zia Yusuf

Latest Posts

Boris Johnson

Boris Johnson on the brink after Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid resignations

Basit Mahmood
6 July, 2022

‘It’s over’

Raab on GMB

The ‘car crash interview of the year’: Dominic Raab attempts to ‘defend the indefensible’ on GMB

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2022

‘Raab needs to drop defending Johnson, or his own career is done.’

Voting Ballot Box

Baroness Jones: Tactical voting needs to be more than a vote against the government

Jenny Jones
5 July, 2022

‘A green vote has become something that the other parties have to take notice of.’

Michael Fabricant

‘A new low’: Michael Fabricant under fire for defending Chris Pincher

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2022

‘Conservative MPs feel “very sorry” for Chris Pincher and believe he is a “victim in his own way,’ says the MP for Lichfield.

No 10 lied about Chris Pincher, says former top civil servant

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2022

‘It’s sort of telling the truth and crossing your fingers at the same time,’ said Simon McDonald.

Go Slow protests

Priti Patel urges police to get tough with fuel protestors

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
5 July, 2022

Under the new legislation roadblocks can carry a six-month prison sentence.

A pile of newspapers with text overlaid reading "Voices on the Left"

Voices on the Left: 5 blogs from the left you need to read this week

Basit Mahmood
4 July, 2022

A roundup of progressive news…

Cost of living crisis

Low income growth leaves families ‘brutally exposed’ to cost of living crisis

Basit Mahmood
4 July, 2022

Real household disposable income growth for working-age families averaged just 0.7 per cent a year in the 15 years leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Boris Johnson scratching his head

Boris Johnson’s ratings among Conservative Party members continue to plunge, new poll finds

Basit Mahmood
4 July, 2022

Johnson is now the least popular member of the cabinet by quite some distance.

Coffey

Tory MP in car crash interview attempting to defend Boris Johnson

Basit Mahmood
4 July, 2022

‘I get that perhaps it’s easier to come on to these programmes and say I don’t know but surely you must ask to try and find out’

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