Opinion: Keir Starmer and dishonesty is a recurring theme
Hamza Ali Shah argues Starmer’s leadership has so far been ‘typified by U-turns, disingenuity and underhandedness’
Boris Johnson
A new voting system: Will Labour ever accept sharing power to win?
Here’s what happened at Compass’s Labour Conference fringe rally on the the possibility of Labour backing electoral reform
Natalie Bennett: Boris Johnson must live up to his climate change rhetoric
‘The Prime Minister has staked out his case for successful COP26 talks. And in the weeks before it, what happens in the UK is going to be under the global microscope.’
Joe Biden put Boris Johnson back in his box
‘Johnson will now have to properly explain why there will be no trade deal with the US for the foreseeable future given it was the glittering Brexit prize promised’
Boris Johnson cannot disown the mental health impact of the Universal Credit cut
‘I’ve seen how policy is developed at the highest levels of government, but also how it plays out in the day-to-day lives of people at the margins of our society. Decisions made in the abstract at the top have painfully real consequences at the bottom.’
EXCLUSIVE: John McDonnell says ‘Labour Party’s purge is having a severe impact on mental health of members’
“We’ve lost over 100,000 members, some people say 150,000, that’s the army that goes out and fights the elections for us”.
Tory heavyweights’ revolt to block Universal Credit cut rejected
A backbench rebellion over fallout over plans to scrap benefit payment uplift has been rejected, saving Johnson from a potentially humiliating Commons’ showdown
5 takeaways from Ed Davey’s conference speech
Davey was clear about the seats he wanted his party to take, specifically mentioning seats in Cambridgeshire and the Cotswolds, Stockport and Surrey, Hampshire and Hertfordshire.
Universal credit cut breaches human rights law, says UN envoy
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says that the universal credit cut will impose the ‘biggest overnight cut to the basic rate of social security since the foundation of the modern welfare state.’
Right-wingers turn on Boris Johnson for ‘shameful betrayal over tax rises’
One thinks it ‘guarantees the total victory of socialism in Britain’.
