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Carney on EU-Canada ties: ‘What matters is the substance’ — live updates

Open questions include what the new status would mean, how it would differ from existing partnerships — and how Washington would react, after Donald Trump threatened “serious tariffs” on Europe if it followed through.…

Burnham’s Budget bind

However, as the rains of autumn swept in, the optimism of August has been slightly dulled as we approach the Budget. The economic situation would be tough for any Prime Minister, but it has certainly worsened due to the…

Will tax be the best form of defence in Labour’s reckless rush to take us back to the seventies

At least he stuck around as he promised, unlike the integrity-charlatan that replaced him who has cut and run, as he promised not to, and forced a by-election in Holborn and St Pancras. I will never support Sunak’s…

Bob Seely: The two-state solution is dead. Move on

Like most people in this country, I’ve spent a lifetime listening to earnest news about peace in the Middle East. To be interested in foreign affairs once meant having to have an opinion on it. Frankly, I’m not sure I’d…

Spencer Gardner: A tourist tax is the wrong destination for devolution and no victory for local government

When metro mayors were first proposed, we were promised stronger local leadership, better transport, economic growth and decisions made closer to the communities affected by them. There was little mention that they would…

Wayne Fitzgerald: The shambles of Labour’s local government reorganisation

Like many councils across the country, Peterborough needs certainty, transparency and financial discipline. If Peterborough residents are confused about the future of their council, I cannot blame them. For almost two…

Stella Tsantekidou column: ‘One quid to rule them all’

Now, before you read on. Their email asked for £3. Go for a quid, and make it monthly , and while you are at it, join Friends of LabourList too (if you are reading this, you clearly value it). Remember when we all…

Friends of the Month: Cllr Duncan Enright

Every month, we celebrate one of our Friends and learn a little more about them. This month, we spoke to Councillor Duncan Enright, Deputy Leader of West Oxfordshire District Council and one-time rival of David Cameron.…

‘Devolution is fine, but letting go is harder’

Beneath the rhetoric of economic renewal and “good growth in every postcode” lies a deeper contest about who holds power and where it should sit. Recent interventions in the Welsh political debate expose the fault lines…

Shifting ground – the inheritance facing Labour’s new General Secretary

Labour will today appoint a new General Secretary. Most coverage will talk about who got the job. Less of it will ask what they face – arguably a harder inheritance than any General Secretary in recent memory. Why it…