Topic: Political parties

Black Muslims in Philadelphia are crucial for Kamala Harris. Has she won them over?

This historically Democratic city is a key battleground in Pennsylvania. But Gaza isn’t the only issue causing the vice-president problems

Denise Clay
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?

Shehab Khan

Why isn’t America talking about Trump’s planned Muslim ban 2.0?

In 2017, the 45th president outraged the world by blocking immigration to the US from several Muslim-majority countries. Now he wants to impose even harsher sanctions
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
What a year of war in Gaza means for the US election

For Muslim voters in America, Palestine is on the ballot. That could have some unexpected consequences
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?