Sir Keir Starmer was never going to be a good Prime Minister, but timing is crucial and it's made things even worse than they could have been.

Labour needs backbenchers who fight for growth, not just block spending cuts, writes Michael Martins in today's Notebook.

Sir Keir Starmer is poised for a showdown with Donald Trump over energy after the US President demanded efforts are made to ...

The prime minister says wages growing faster than prices is a sign of things improving, but rising costs force more Britons ...

Sir Keir Starmer wants to see fewer foreign nationals claiming benefits while unemployed in the UK, Downing Street said as ...

Labour MPs have called on Sir Keir Starmer to reduce net zero taxes on oil and gas producers or risk destroying thousands of jobs in their constituencies.

The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the deputy prime minister’s influence ...

Keir Starmer seems disoriented, his authority is damaged, and his popularity is at rock bottom. The only thing he succeeds at ...

THE Labour leadership is adopting a scorched-earth policy to social programmes and public spending, with no section of society safe from their cuts. The consequences will be very grave for some of the ...

COMMENT: The small boats deal with France was a negotiating triumph – but if it doesn't work, the prime minister is doomed, ...

Labour wants us live like working people and do whatever working people do – but what exactly is that? - COMMENT: In the lead up to the election, the definition was purposely rubbery in order to ...

Eluned Morgan said those with the broadest shoulders pay more as ordinary people were desperately struggling with the cost of living ...