Birmingham budget meeting live as bins, social care, and child services face axe
Birmingham City Council Cabinet meets today to sign up to a budget that includes huge cuts to community services, and a 7.5% ...
LEO MCKINSTRY: It is Starmer's Labour that now stands revealed as the TRULY 'nasty' party
Labour likes to pose as champion of human decency in British politics. How hollow that sounds after The Mail on Sunday's ...
Love or hate her, the much-disputed spirit of Margaret Thatcher continues to march through UK politics
Alongside the likes of Winston Churchill and Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher remains one of the most memorable British leaders ...
Rachel Reeves’s idea of romance
Peterborough readers looking for ideas on how to spend St Valentine’s evening next week might want to follow the example set ...
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Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury due in court on assault charge
The Runcorn and Helsby MP is accused of attacking a 45-year-old ... Amesbury was suspended from the Labour Party after footage emerged which appeared to show him punching a man.
Keir Starmer had a voice coach for five years – but you probably haven’t noticed
In 2017, Keir Starmer, then-shadow Brexit secretary, addressed the Labour Party conference in Brighton ...
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'It was a place of wit, which seems to have entirely disappeared': How the Commons has changed
Former Labour MP Tony Wright reflects on how the atmosphere and behaviour of MPs in the House of Commons has altered over the ...
The once-great industrial city that fell victim to Britain’s widening divide
Sheffield was once the crucible of the British Empire and the industrial revolution, producing almost half of Europe’s entire ...
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Blue Labour v Reform: The Pro-Worker, Anti-Woke Plan To Beat Farage
With Reform riding high in the polls, many new Labour MPs are deeply anxious about the threat posed by Nigel Farage. To fight ...
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Tony Blair and Gordon Brown pay tribute to 'working class hero' at John Prescott's funeral
Former prime ministers Sir Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have paid tribute to a ... the speech Lord Prescott gave to the East Hull Labour Party in 1968 as he pitched to be the local MP, saying: “John ...
Lord Davies of Stamford, Europhile Tory who defected to Labour with a blistering attack on David Cameron
Lord Davies of Stamford, who has died aged 80, had been Conservative MP for Stamford and the surrounding area for 20 years when in 2007, on the eve of Gordon Brown succeeding Tony Blair as prime ...
I had the privilege of attending the funeral of John Prescott - this is what it was like
Local Democracy Reporter Andrew Spence was one of the invitees to attend the funeral of John Prescott in Hull on Thursday (Jan 30). He tells us what it was like.