Joe Fortune currently holds the same role at the Co-Operative Party By Megan Kenyon Labour’s ruling National Executive Committee has chosen Joe Fortune as the party’s new general secretary. Fortune ...

I still remember vividly my grandad’s descent – the gradual loss of comprehension, the withdrawal, sudden flashes of life By Tom McTague It was early Monday afternoon when I heard the news about Andy ...

Meet the Oxfordshire villagers rebelling against Britain’s asylum policy By Emily Lawford Two signs mark the entrance to Piddington, east Oxfordshire. “I AM SPARTACUS. YOU ARE SPARTACUS. WE ARE ...

Whatever happened to the Good Friday Agreement? Neither Donald Trump nor Andy Burnham have read the small-print. It might not matter By Finn McRedmond Poor Micheál, who may have expected it from Joe ...

It has long been fashionable for politicians and commentators to worry about the “Americanisation” of British politics. Concerns of this nature date back more than a century, to debates about ...

Future generations will look upon the social mobility of postwar Britain with envy By Rachel Cunliffe What would Seven Up! look like now? That’s the thought I couldn’t get out of my head as I ...

Politics is lousy with bookworms. But are they reading the good stuff? By Bethany Elliott The reading habits of politicians, like their sexual proclivities, are largely hidden from public view until ...

At Reform Party Conference this month, the only subject journalists wanted to talk about was the donor scandal. The day before the conference began, Channel 4 broadcast a documentary in which ...

This is the Prime Minister’s first real attempt to redistribute power from Whitehall By Ethan Croft Mayors across England will soon have the power to raise a visitor levy, the government announced ...

Can Andy Burnham move fast enough for voters? New polling suggests the Prime Minister understands what the country wants – but has limited time to deliver it By Rachel Cunliffe It took barely a summer ...

Who’s to blame for Jason Arday? Arday isn’t a victim or a crook, but the product of a broken system By Steve Hall The Jason Arday affair has turned into a global furore. Arday is a young black man who ...

Since her fiery response to Rachel Reeves’s 2025 Budget, the Tory leader’s popularity has soared By Ben Walker Kemi Badenoch’s brand has never been better. Until Rachel Reeves’s 2025 Budget, few polls ...