Starmer under siege: the runners, riders and risks of Labour’s next power struggle
As polls worsen and MPs mutter about local elections, Labour’s factions are lining up their champions, from Wes Streeting to Angela Rayner
Reform UK
The UK’s prime minister, its king and their new annus horribilis
Keir Starmer’s 2025 was turbulent as Reform UK kept up the pressure, while King Charles dealt with the fallout of his brother Andrew’s association with Jeffrey Epstein
Nigel Farage hits out at broadcasters as racism allegations continue to mount
Reform UK leader lashes out at BBC and ITV as more former classmates come forward with accounts of racist behaviour from his school years
Brexit’s back: Starmer flirts with EU as economic growth flatlines
UK prime minister says the notion that leaving the European Union would solve Britain’s woes has been ‘proven wrong’
Rachel Reeves avoids budget landmines but remains exposed unless economic growth kicks in
UK’s chancellor delivered her second successive tax-and-spend budget on Wednesday
SNP leader John Swinney: ‘Scotland and England are going in completely different directons’
Scotland’s nationalist first minister visits Dublin on Tuesday and Wednesday to talk economics, culture and space rockets
Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for more than 10 years for taking pro-Russia bribes
Nathan Gill was paid thousands of pounds to give pro-Russian TV interviews and make speeches in EU Parliament, where he was an MEP
Britain’s asylum shake-up poses big problems for Ireland
What will happen to failed asylum applicants and migrants to the UK who have overstayed, and who can travel freely to Ireland?
UK toughens asylum policy in major overhaul as anti-immigration sentiment rises
Move by Keir Starmer’s Labour government seeks to stem rise of populist Reform UK party
Plan for a united Ireland to avoid Brexit-style mess, says author from unionist background
Ben Collins favours Irish unity and encourages others of similar heritage to engage with subject
Tanita Tikaram: ‘The Beatles taught me to sing low’
The singer of Fijian and Malaysian descent penned her hit single, Twist in my Sobriety, when she was a ‘introverted, opinionated’ teenager
This election wasn’t a lurch to the left, but a victory for Keep The Other Lot Out politics
There is real possibility that political coalition will form to exploit public dissatisfaction with KTOLO politics
If Nigel Farage wins the next UK election, the consequences for Ireland will be profound
There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England
Labour unrest grows as Starmer faces pressure — could this rising MP be his successor?
Saxophone-playing former corporate lawyer Darren Jones has risen steeply through the ranks to become the PM’s right-hand man
Keir Starmer’s Labour suffers seismic byelection defeat to Plaid Cymru in Wales
Loss of Welsh assembly seat in stronghold deals blow to prime minister’s leadership
Starmer’s new Brexit line: it’s a disaster – and Farage is to blame
Downing Street insiders say Labour’s frontbench have been primed to blame the current economic woes on Brexit and Reform UK
Caerphilly by-election to test Labour’s grip as Reform challenges Wales’ traditional politics
If Nigel Farage’s party wins, it will buttress its claim to be on course to win the next UK election
The Irish Times view on Welsh politics: change in the valleys
Polls suggest there is a real opportunity for Plaid Cymru in next May’s regional elections
Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood says public trust will be weakened unless politicians ‘bring order’ to immigration
‘Something is shifting’: Wales is on the verge of a political earthquake
Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru looks set to battle Reform UK to end a century of Labour political dominance
Kemi Badenoch pledges to rebuild Conservative Party’s reputation with debt ‘golden rule’
Tory leader outlines plan for reducing debt and fuelling growth as party seeks to move on from Truss-era turmoil
Right turn in Manchester: Tories chase Reform UK – and risk losing their own centre
Conservative leader needs her big speech on Wednesday to land well as hard right-leaning shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick waits in the wings
Tories’ future as political party capable of governing is at stake: ‘It is that serious’
Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference
Keir Starmer delivers perhaps his best speech so far as UK prime minister
Labour leader takes the fight to his internal and external political enemies in address to his party’s conference in Liverpool
Could Labour’s ‘king of the north’ dethrone Keir Starmer?
As Labour heads into a fractious party conference, the Manchester mayor has made his leadership ambitions clear. But some party insiders believe he might have ‘over-reached’
Is Britain’s ailing Conservative Party finally over?
Tribalism has engulfed European convervatism – and Kemi Badenoch’s Tories might be next on chopping block
Lib Dems gleeful as party eyes historic shift in British politics
Faithful see their party as the ‘liberal antidote’ to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Conservative MP Danny Kruger defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Move follows that of Nadine Dorries earlier this month
Is Britain headed for prime minister Nigel Farage?
Reform UK conference devotees cheer their man as Labour faces yet more turmoil
Greens to the left, Reform to the right: Starmer’s Labour feels the squeeze
New Green Party leader Zack Polanski shows growing challenge to Labour from the left
Keir Starmer faces real peril in defining period as MPs return
UK prime minister must overturn Reform’s migration-fuelled summer dominance, while crucial budget also looms into view
Nigel Farage’s immigration bombshell raises nationalist hopes and unionist fears
Unionism still faces a hard new political reality if Northern Ireland comes to be seen in Britain as an obstacle to controlling immigration
Tory Scottish parliamentarian defects to Farage’s Reform UK
Burgeoning anti-migrant party has dominated summer recess of British politics
Reform UK announces plan to repeal human rights laws and deport all asylum seekers
Nigel Farage says party would remove Britain from the European Convention on Human Rights and disapply international treaties
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