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Keir Starmer’s three-day tour of the North and the West Midlands continues. On Monday, he was accompanied by local MPs – rising star Bridget Phillipson, his parliamentary private secretary Sharon Hodgson and backbencher Julie Elliott – plus…
Do people experience fraud? Is it even real, or are the 4.6 million people reporting as victims each year simply imagining it? Keir Starmer sought some answers from Boris Johnson this afternoon, asking whether Kwasi Kwarteng was right to…
"This is a global gas price crisis. But we are being hit very hard by it. And we are being hit very hard by it for a whole range of reasons. But fundamentally because the government has failed in its energy policy," Ed Miliband, the Shadow…
The ‘levelling up’ white paper is finally unveiled today. This lays the foundations for what is to become the flagship levelling up and regeneration bill. Michael Gove has been put in charge of this government’s central promise: to carry…
Setting out his case methodically, former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer began by asking Boris Johnson to confirm that the ministerial code applies to him ("of course," Johnson replied) before the Labour leader reminded MPs…
The plot thickens. Boris Johnson was, according to one Tory MP, "ambushed with a cake". His birthday bash was no "premeditated" attempt at an "organised" party – but a cynical ploy to stuff him with baked goods. Our hearts go out to the…
But the rules that we created were stupid! Once again, this is the bottom line of the excuses emerging from No 10 and government ministers today, attempting to explain away a new ‘partygate’ development. In perhaps the most easily…
Christian Wakeford, the MP for Bury South since 2019, defected from the Conservatives to the Labour Party today. It is a big moment for Keir Starmer. How did that happen? The Labour leader's spokesperson has confirmed that talks about…
Boris Johnson will already have been anticipating a difficult session, after protesting yesterday that "nobody told me" the Downing Street party he joined was breaking Covid rules. But the Prime Minister entered the chamber minutes after…
If anything is going to eat into whatever support is left for Boris Johnson in this country, it’s a story that combines Downing Street lockdown parties and the Queen mourning alone. For it to be an exclusive in the Telegraph makes it more…
Keir Starmer tested positive for coronavirus yesterday. The Labour leader has been doing lateral flow tests every day, although he last had Covid less than three months ago (it has been speculated that he had Delta last time and Omicron on…
With Keir Starmer out of action after testing positive for coronavirus for a second time, it was Angela Rayner who faced up to Boris Johnson during today's Prime Minister's Questions. The deputy leader focused on the deepening cost of…
