Will the winter fuel cuts rowback quieten welfare reform rebels – or embolden them?
Keir Starmer looks set to row back on cuts to winter fuel payments, in what will be widely…
Analysis
Local elections: Reform took four times more Labour seats than other parties
Reform UK gained more than four times the number of council seats from Labour than other parties combined…
Immigration white paper: Starmer has the authenticity issue Miliband once had
Labour unveiled a string of new policies this morning in the government’s immigration white paper, but the Prime…
Starmer won targeting Red Wall voters. Now even their MPs rebel on winter fuel
Targeting a particular kind of Red Wall voter was a key part of Labour’s strategy going into the…
Local elections fallout deepens as PM takes thinly veiled swipe at left MPs and Labour loses Doncaster council
The fallout from Labour’s grim local election performance has deepened as the only Labour-held council fell to Reform…
Local election results 2025: How Labour did in each council and mayor race
The moment polls closed in the 2025 local elections on Thursday night, party chair Ellie Reeves issued an…
Runcorn and Helsby by-election blame game begins – why did Labour lose?
Finger-pointing has already begun following Labour’s painfully close defeat to Reform UK in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election,…
Runcorn and Helsby by-election defeat: Results breakdown, analysis and reaction
Labour’s Karen Shore has lost the Runcorn and Helsby by-election, after battling out a knife-edge fight with Reform…
Runcorn and Helsby by-election: Labour targets Tory voters to keep out Reform
Karen Shore’s campaign are fighting for every vote as the by-election in Runcorn looks set to come down…
Cambridgeshire & Peterborough mayor election: Nik Johnson on why he’s standing down and Anna Smith on knife-edge Labour-Tory fight to replace him
With local elections across parts of England less than a week away, I went to visit Cambridgeshire and…
