Brexit’s back: Starmer flirts with EU as economic growth flatlines
UK prime minister says the notion that leaving the European Union would solve Britain’s woes has been ‘proven wrong’
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Fish disco freakout: Starmer looks to change tune on obstacles to industrial investment
Laois man John Fingleton’s recommendations to cut the cost of nuclear development will be applied across Britain’s industrial strategy
Keir Starmer on the back foot: PM pleads for trust as budget backlash engulfs Labour
Claims of budget misrepresentation spark a bruising clash with Westminster press
British MP Tulip Siddiq sentenced to two years in prison in Bangladesh corruption case
The verdict on former UK minister was delivered in absentia, local media reports
Daily Mail’s £500m bid for the Telegraph creates a right-wing bloc to rival Rupert Murdoch
The government in Westminster is wary of the potential risks of blocking a deal after two years of financial uncertainty for the Telegraph Media Group
Rachel Reeves avoids budget landmines but remains exposed unless economic growth kicks in
UK’s chancellor delivered her second successive tax-and-spend budget on Wednesday
All eyes on Reeves as she seeks £30bn to plug spending gap ahead of UK budget
All the leaking, pitch-rolling and backtracking in the pre-budget run-up has investors, employers and union bosses bewildered
SNP leader John Swinney: ‘Scotland and England are going in completely different directons’
Scotland’s nationalist first minister visits Dublin on Tuesday and Wednesday to talk economics, culture and space rockets
Britain’s asylum shake-up poses big problems for Ireland
What will happen to failed asylum applicants and migrants to the UK who have overstayed, and who can travel freely to Ireland?
Irish secret Troubles files can be shared with Northern legacy body, Minister says
New Garda unit agreed as part of Anglo-Irish deal to be created before end of year but will not investigate Troubles killings
Labour wrestles with its conscience over deportation of asylum seeker families
Kindertransport survivor calls policy ‘shabby’ as home secretary defends crackdown aimed at deterring Reform UK
Britain no longer guarantees support for ‘destitute’ asylum seekers under tough new regime
UK home secretary Shabana Mahmood says biggest overhaul of rules in decades is needed to stop ‘asylum shoppers’
UK toughens asylum policy in major overhaul as anti-immigration sentiment rises
Move by Keir Starmer’s Labour government seeks to stem rise of populist Reform UK party
Keir Starmer defies calls to sack Irish chief of staff Morgan McSweeney
Calls from Labour MPs for Irishman Morgan McSweeney’s resignation
Keir Starmer denies authorising ‘kneecap’ attack on health secretary amid leadership crisis
UK PM’s allies say he will fight attempts to replace him as Labour leader in advance of crucial budget
Tanita Tikaram: ‘The Beatles taught me to sing low’
The singer of Fijian and Malaysian descent penned her hit single, Twist in my Sobriety, when she was a ‘introverted, opinionated’ teenager
Zohran Mamdani and Catherine Connolly built their campaigns from similar playbooks
Ireland’s president-elect and New York’s incoming mayor succeeded in disrupting politics by building broad coalitions of disaffected voters
Downing Street backs Rachel Reeves after she apologises for letting home without licence
With crucial budget looming, chancellor faces pressure over ‘inadvertent mistake’
Complication for Keir Starmer as Lucy Powell wins Labour’s deputy leadership race
Manchester Central MP was sacked from UK cabinet in September
If Nigel Farage wins the next UK election, the consequences for Ireland will be profound
There is widespread desire for electoral change and a greater political role for England
Labour unrest grows as Starmer faces pressure — could this rising MP be his successor?
Saxophone-playing former corporate lawyer Darren Jones has risen steeply through the ranks to become the PM’s right-hand man
Keir Starmer’s Labour suffers seismic byelection defeat to Plaid Cymru in Wales
Loss of Welsh assembly seat in stronghold deals blow to prime minister’s leadership
Labour’s stunning byelection loss in Wales shows parties who cannot adapt will be crushed
UK politics is moving at speed, with voter loyalties shifting and atomising in unprecedented ways
Caerphilly by-election to test Labour’s grip as Reform challenges Wales’ traditional politics
If Nigel Farage’s party wins, it will buttress its claim to be on course to win the next UK election
Britain has lost control of its borders, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood says public trust will be weakened unless politicians ‘bring order’ to immigration
How the SNP is finally getting over its post-Sturgeon hangover
Labour’s implosion and the rise of Reform UK has gifted the party a clear path back to power in next May’s Holyrood elections
‘Something is shifting’: Wales is on the verge of a political earthquake
Welsh nationalist party Plaid Cymru looks set to battle Reform UK to end a century of Labour political dominance
Kemi Badenoch pledges to rebuild Conservative Party’s reputation with debt ‘golden rule’
Tory leader outlines plan for reducing debt and fuelling growth as party seeks to move on from Truss-era turmoil
Revolut co-founder Nik Storonsky shifts his residency from UK to UAE
Change in billionaire’s country of residence disclosed in Companies House filing
Right turn in Manchester: Tories chase Reform UK – and risk losing their own centre
Conservative leader needs her big speech on Wednesday to land well as hard right-leaning shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick waits in the wings
Tories’ future as political party capable of governing is at stake: ‘It is that serious’
Whether to focus more on people’s pockets or UK borders is big question at Conservative Party conference
‘How the f**k do you know me?’ the Ginger Patriot asked as he filmed from behind the security barrier
YouTuber could not have been more polite at a recent asylum hotel protest. Now he was snarling at me across a security barrier
Keir Starmer delivers perhaps his best speech so far as UK prime minister
Labour leader takes the fight to his internal and external political enemies in address to his party’s conference in Liverpool
Labour conference shows how future of Keir Starmer’s government depends on one woman
As protests gather outside Labour’s annual conference, Keir Starmer is betting on immigration hardliner Shabana Mahmood to save his government
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