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Screen grab of the chamber of peers in the House of Lords, London during a debate, November 14, 2025
Employment Rights Bill / 11 December 2025
11 December 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at the MacDonald Inchyra Hotel & Spa in Falkirk, December 6, 2025
Reform UK / 11 December 2025
11 December 2025
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy (left) and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 28, 2025
Human Rights / 10 December 2025
10 December 2025
Labour MP for Liverpool Riverside Kim Johnson, speaks during an energy protest outside the Palace of Westminster, March 6, 2024
Britain / 10 December 2025
10 December 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves stands next to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer as he acknowledges guests during a visit to the Benn Partnership Centre, a community centre in Rugby, Warwickshire, November 27, 2025
Budget / 10 December 2025
10 December 2025
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardiff
Wales / 10 December 2025
10 December 2025
A general view of the Houses of Parliament in London
Workers' Rights / 9 December 2025
9 December 2025
Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech at Glaziers Hall in central London, December 9, 2025
Politics / 9 December 2025
9 December 2025
Rayner and Streeting
Eyes Left / 10 December 2025
10 December 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference at Institute of Directors in central London. Picture date: Thursday December 4, 2025
Far Right / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025

Meanwhile, Farage's party is mired in racism rows on multiple fronts

A ballot box arriving during the count for the Blackpool South by-election at Blackpool Sports Centre, Blackpool, May 2, 2024
Politics / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Prime Minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Store, ahead of a meeting at Number 10 Downing Street, London, December 4, 2025
Anti-War / 4 December 2025
4 December 2025
First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks during Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's visit to a engineering workshop at Coleg Menai in Anglesey, November 13, 2025
Wales / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Reform UK Head of Policy Zia Yusuf (left) and Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during a press conference at Raffles Hotel in Whitehall, central London, November 26, 2025
Politics / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025
Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy leaves following a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, December 2, 2025
Human Rights / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Jeremy Corbyn (left), Ayoub Khan (centre) and Zarah Sultana on stage as the end of the Your Party founding two day conference at the Liverpool Arena, November 30, 2025
Parliament / 2 December 2025
2 December 2025
Zarah Sultana M.P. arrives at the Your Party founding conference at the ACC Liverpool, November 29, 2025
Your Party Conference 2025 / 30 November 2025
30 November 2025
Zarah Sultana (centre) with party members outside the ACC Liverpool, during the Your Party founding conference, November 29, 2025
Your Party Conference 2025 / 30 November 2025
30 November 2025
Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South, addresses protesters during a Stop Trump Coalition protest in Parliament Square, London, on day one of the US President's second state visit to the UK, September 17, 2025
Your Party Conference 2025 / 28 November 2025
28 November 2025

Morning Star political reporter Andrew Murray speaks to ZARAH SULTANA on the mass party of the left holding its inaugural conference this weekend

A campaigner dressed in a papier mache head of Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, ahead of a stunt taking aim at her wealth tax at Parliament Square in London, November 25, 2025
Economy / 26 November 2025
26 November 2025
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana take part in a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester, October 10, 2025
Britain / 26 November 2025
26 November 2025
Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, March 26, 2025
Britain / 25 November 2025
25 November 2025

Campaigners rally outside Downing Street on the eve of make-or-break Budget

Nick Fuentes, far right activist, holds a rally at the Lansing Capitol, in Lansing, Mich., Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2020
Eyes Left / 26 November 2025
26 November 2025

As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham attending a Labour for a New Democracy fringe event at the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 28, 2025
Labour Party / 20 November 2025
20 November 2025
The front of the Marx Memorial Library
Britain / 20 November 2025
20 November 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street, London, November 17, 2025
Britain / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025
Defence Secretary John Healey delivering a speech on how the UK's defence industry is delivering growth and national renewal across the UK, at No 9 Downing Street in central London, November 19, 2025
Military / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025
Richard Burgon at the SEC centre, Glasgow, February 15, 2020
Economy / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, November 12, 2025
Labour Party / 15 November 2025
15 November 2025

As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership

Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, November 12, 2025
Labour Party / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025
Unite the union general secretary Sharon Graham
Economy / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025
GB News presenter Matthew Goodwin speaking at the Reform UK annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, September 5, 2025
Reform UK / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting looks on as Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom, Surrey, January 6, 2025
Britain / 12 November 2025
12 November 2025