Thursday’s Gorton and Denton by-election marks a new stage in the collapse of the right-wing Labour Party and of Britain’s two-party system. In a constituency held continuously by Labour since 1931—a ...

When the Labour Party was created 125 years ago, it was done so out of a demand from the underrepresented in society, routinely struck down by an ambivalent establishment, to have their voices heard.

An attempt by Keir Starmer’s allies to undercut a rival has forced into the open a party debate over whether to replace the prime minister. By Stephen Castle Reporting from London With his poll ...

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, hosts Metro Mayors, including Andy Burnham, left, from across the United Kingdom at 10 Downing Street. Jul. 8, 2024. (Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) ...

It has become impossible to picture Prime Minister Keir Starmer without a Union Flag backdrop. But this week’s Labour conference in Liverpool took the party’s jingoism to a new and repulsive level.

One hundred and twenty-six years ago, the United Kingdom’s Labour Party was founded as a committee meant to represent Britain’s emerging socialist and working-class movements. At the time, Labour’s ...

A year ago, Keir Starmer’s Labour Party won the largest majority in Parliament this century and consigned the Conservatives, Labour’s historic rival, to its worst defeat. Now, after 15 months in power ...