An influential Labour Party group has broken with the Prime Minister to back calls for a national inquiry into the grooming and rape gangs. The Blue Labour outfit said that a new inquiry was necessary ...

But critics of the PM from inside and outside Labour’s ranks have warned him the party needs not just to deliver, but be seen ...

Twenty Labour councillors have quit the party in protest at its direction under the leadership of Sir Keir Starmer, accusing the prime minister of having "abandoned traditional Labour values".