Can Reform make a breakthrough in next year’s local elections?
If financial backing were the sole measure of a party’s success, Reform would be home and dry.
Labour
MPs urge government to appoint ‘community resilience tsar’ to counter toxic far-right politics
‘Our current political system enables inequality, fuels distrust, and leaves too many people feeling powerless.’
Labour LGBT+ group voices ‘deep concern’ over Wes Streeting’s ban on puberty blockers
Streeting has said the blockers present ‘an unacceptable safety risk for children and young people’
Building 1.5 million homes: ‘It can be done – if we’re bold enough’
Starmer ‘is willing to stand up against populist trends to deliver on the big, difficult issues, and there’s none bigger than housing’.
Home Office move-on period: Refugees and charities ‘relieved’, but extension must be permanent
Refugees faced move-on periods that were too short to do basic things like open a bank account and find housing. Will the new 56-day move-on period help?
Keir Starmer responds to Kemi Badenoch’s sandwiches are ‘not a real food’ comment
‘I won’t touch bread if it’s moist’
Two thirds of voters agree with capping political donations, new polling reveals
‘The public is fed up with the corrosive influence of big money in politics.’
Majority of voters with metro mayors favour further devolution, Labour Together finds
Good news for metro mayors: more voters have a positive view of them than a negative one
Trade unions say proposed pay increase is an ‘insult’ to millions of public sector workers
Unison, the BMA, Unite and the NEU have all said a 2.8% pay rise next year isn’t enough
Margaret Hodge takes on anti-corruption champion role to tackle flow of dirty money
Lammy says the government will make the UK ‘a hostile environment for the corrupt’