Since it won last July’s general election, Britain’s Labour government has often had to compete for headlines — and votes — ...

How Angela Rayner has become the most influential figure in Starmer’s government – for now - NEWS ANALYSIS: The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the ...

"To launch a political party is quite something," said Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail. "To bungle the launch of one," though, requires a special type of incompetence. This was on full display last ...

Starmer's on a charm offensive. But his rank and file think No 10's 'a mess' and are contemptuous of their frontbench ...

PRIME MINISTER Sir Keir Starmer has pushed his much-mutilated welfare Bill through the Commons in the teeth of another major ...

Earnings of the unemployed who claim ill health payments will overtake those of workers on the national living wage next year ...

MPs have voted in favour of Sir Keir Starmer’s controversial welfare reforms but 47 Labour MPs rebelled against the ...

Forty five Labour MPs voted against the Government's stripped-down welfare Bill - with backbencher Rachael Maskell branding ...

A full-time worker paid the national living wage will earn about £22,500 after income tax and National Insurance. The calculation shows how generous the welfare system will be after Sir Keir Starmer ...

LEFT MPs inside and outside the Labour Party were preparing to rebel against government welfare cuts once more last night.

Rachel Reeves is expected to introduce a “stealth tax” and target taxes on the wealthy in a bid to both raise revenues and ...