Topic: Labour

Labour is learning the hard way that governing is nothing like being in opposition

Keir Starmer’s attempts to sweep away dissent over winter fuel payments, high-value donations and Gaza haven’t worked

Shehab Khan
Eating less and washing in cold water: what it means to lose the winter fuel payment

Rachel Reeves has cut cold weather benefits for 10 million pensioners. But schemes to help those who lose it may not touch the sides

Morgan Ofori
Pro-Palestine heckler at Labour conference ‘still in shock’ at force used against him

Man, 24, interrupted chancellor Rachel Reeves’s speech to challenge her on Britain’s sale of arms to Israel before being dragged outside

Saman Javed

Streeting’s NHS reforms could leave Black and Asian people behind again, researchers warn

Key 133-page report on state of NHS contained just three paragraphs on ethnic disparities that see minority groups dying younger and waiting longer for treatment
Even some Labour MPs say Starmer’s free glasses aren’t a good look

Prime minister’s gifts from Waheed Alli are causing disquiet among a party that prided itself on being different from the Tories
UK government quietly backs away from Islamophobia definition

Labour adopted cross-party definition while in opposition but is now refusing to commit despite rising hate crime
We’ve not heard the last of Labour’s anti-austerity rebels

Dozens of Keir Starmer’s MPs abstained on a vote to scrap winter fuel payments for pensioners, exposing a rift in the party
Tessa Khan Q&A: ‘The UK has a responsibility to lead the fight against climate change’

The international climate change lawyer and founder of Uplift on the future of proposed fossil fuel projects, and how ordinary people can hold power to account
Three quarters of social housing blocks with unsafe cladding yet to be fixed

Slow progress since Grenfell fire disproportionately affects Muslims, who are more likely to live in social housing