Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Verdict on 100 days of Starmer’s government. The voters have already said No
A Tory-lite Labour Party is clearly unpopular with the electorate who are desperate to see actual improvement to Britain’s decimated public services, writes JOE GILL
LABOUR PAINS: Keir Starmer’s government has inflicted policies that punish the elderly and vulnerable
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
A BIG SET of local council by-elections last week has delivered a devastating verdict on the Labour government’s first 100 days in power.
The Tories won four seats and Labour lost four, while Lib Dems and the Greens won a seat each, as did Plaid Cymru.
Labour’s most spectacular loss was probably Leeds where the Greens won on a swing against Labour of 23 per cent. Labour just stayed ahead of Reform on 24 per cent.
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