And in the minds of the modern Labour Party, that would be unconscionable. Less than a fifth of workers earn their living in the public sector, yet it remains, for the Left in general, the target ...

Starmer should take the prospect of a split on the left just as seriously as he does the challenge from the right.

There are fears people who came to the UK under the skilled worker visa scheme may be victims of modern slavery ...

Ministers hope PM’s partial U-turn will be enough to win over sufficient Labour rebels to pass the Government’s welfare ...

The singer, songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg thinks there’s a crisis of accountability in politics (23:51). To fix it, he says we need to reform the House of Lords (27:55) and redefine ...

125 YEARS AGO on February 27 1900, a meeting took place at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon St to form the Labour Representation Committee (LRC). The building still stands although today it is a modern ...

Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party snatched a critical parliamentary seat from the governing Labour Party. By Mark Landler and Stephen Castle Mark Landler reported from Runcorn, England ...

All this is coming from Britain’s center-left Labour Party, which long favored openness toward migrants. That reflected Labour’s modern base of urban progressive voters.