Topic: Labour

Female MPs of colour face the worst abuse — and it’s a threat to us all

As parliamentarians such as Zarah Sultana face ‘deeply troubling’ levels of vitriol, some politicians have been forced out of public life altogether

Shehab Khan
Behind the warm words, Labour will worry about a Trump presidency

Keir Starmer faces a struggle to mend his party’s relationship with the president-elect without alienating his base

Shehab Khan
Labour’s first budget hits and misses for working people

Will Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s plans be bold enough to make a difference to working people who voted for urgent change?

Taj Ali

Rachel Reeves’s first budget was historic — but the debate is eerily familiar

Labour’s first budget in nearly 15 years contained few surprises thanks to some judicious leaks. But who will win the spin war?
Starmer is being tested by Trump’s charge of ‘foreign interference’

While the result of the US election hangs in the balance, so could the country's ‘special relationship’ with the UK
Live facial recognition used by Met police is ineffective, says monitoring group

Keir Starmer has promised a wider deployment of facial recognition technology, but critics have raised concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding the surveillance
Labour has a chance to turn Britain around with its first budget. Here’s how

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to slash billions from welfare and public spending on 30 October. But there is another way
Starmer’s P&O headache is over — but there are choppy seas ahead

Labour is backing both workers’ rights and big business. Are they on a collision course?
UK hopes diplomacy can de-escalate Middle East crisis — but it needs Europe’s help

Beyond evacuating its own citizens, and with little appetite to halt arms sales, Britain’s power to calm tensions between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran is limited