Nigel Farage is facing his biggest challenge since he became an MP two years ago after a string of revelations about his ...

Keir Starmer’s swan song has begun. Westminster lies in wait for his most likely successor – the MP for Makerfield – who was absent from the Commons once again this afternoon, during PMQs. In the ...

From the archive: Andy Burnham on Peter Mandelson, Iraq and cannabis By Jon Bernstein Andy Burnham, former cabinet minister, is back where he started. Geographically, that is. Kicked out of his ...

The unlikely alliance between a group of London gays and lesbians and a Welsh mining village is a riposte to anti-woke ...

Nature had reasserted itself; marine scientists marvelled at the speed of algal growth By Katie Stallard How hard could it be? Sure, this was a decades-old problem, the solution to which had eluded ...

Keir Starmer was never so popular with the public as in the early months of 2020, when he had just become Labour leader and not many people knew about him. His popularity only saw a slight surge – ...

Andy Burnham will need to do more than follow the rules if he wants to lead Britain By Phil Tinline In his acceptance speech in the early hours of Friday, a victorious Andy Burnham sought to convince ...

It comes after the party lost its deposit in Makerfield By Megan Kenyon Tomorrow, the Green Party’s leader, Zack Polanski will unveil the party’s candidate for the Manchester mayoral by-election – ...

If Burnham becomes prime minister, he will have to reconcile his promise to voters with the expectations of investors By Will Dunn As far as the bond market is concerned, Andy Burnham chose a good day ...

Is Miatta Fahnbulleh the brains behind Burnham? Fahnbullehism is a philosophy rooted in the co-operative movement By Nick Plumb A hell of a lot has been written about “Manchesterism”, so this piece ...

The fixation on who will be PM obscures the deeper forces shaping Britain’s finances – and the cost of addressing them By Dominic Caddick Judging by much of the coverage of the Makerfield by-election, ...

The richest man in history spends his days talking about racial grievances By Oli Dugmore Elon Musk is modern capitalism’s first trillionaire – although the situation is not entirely without precedent ...