The former cabinet minister’s insights into the Conservatives’ struggles highlight the party’s deepening crisis and the challenges facing its future, writes John Rentoul ...

COMMENT: The former cabinet minister’s insights into the Conservative's struggles highlight the party's deepening crisis and ...

The Reform UK leader made calls to leave the ECHR and overhaul the tax system at a party rally in Birmingham which also saw ...

Production Team: Laura Grimshaw, Tony Churnside, Jerry Peal, Katie Sayer, Phoebe Butler, Richard Young. An unusual production for BBC Radio 4.

MILLIONS of workers will get a pay rise of £1,400 a year from next week. Chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed the ...

Rachel Reeves has been warned that she has six months to save her job over her failure to kick-start the economy. Labour MPs ...

First Rachel Reeves came for the pensioners. Then it was the nation's small businessmen and women. Followed by the farmers. But that wasn't enough.

Sir Keir's argument overlaps with the former PM's - that the proliferation of arm's length bodies slow down change.

She said that "Blair and Brown had imposed a web of legalistic ... technocrats", which granted is a point where you might think Truss and Starmer would depart and no doubt do in many instances.