Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Pay to play? Starmer courts the right money
Members aren't picking up the bill because they've left in droves, so Labour's relying on the charitable impulses of people like Anthony Watson and Deborah Mattinson — whose agenda you can probably already guess, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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
LABOUR’S leadership expected to be able to fundraise from the rich to replace income lost because Keir Starmer’s rightward march turned off members and trade unions — but it hasn’t really happened on any scale.
One exception is banker Anthony Watson, who is one of Labour’s few returning rich donors.
In March the Politico website reported “senior figures around Keir Starmer” want Labour general secretary David Evans sacked — reasons for ditching Evans including being “too slow” to “raise funds from private donors.”
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