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Who cares if I’m nasty – Kemi Badenoch fights back

As the Conservatives head to Birmingham, Kemi Badenoch has branded the prime minister’s plans as “Corbynism with better packaging”. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy ask whether the Tories are embracing a more aggressive style…

Bob Seely: We have moved in the right direction on immigration but for everyone’s sake we need to go further

Last weekend’s Sunday Times lead with a story on Britain granting asylum to a security chief of Hamas, proscribed as a terrorist organisation. On one hand, the story should have been unbelievable, and yet thanks to our…

‘Hope is as much a message for the Scottish electorate as the UK’s’

Analysis after analysis – and a bruising leadership contest – have framed May’s Holyrood results as proof of an existential crisis. But while internal despondency is understandable after a painful election, it is also…

Healey urged to offer energy support in budget as bills rise 4%

In his speech at Labour's conference in Liverpool this week , the chancellor warned that the government had limited resources to cushion the worldwide economic shocks hitting Britain, while arguing his budget would have…

Rightwing economic myths could derail Burnham’s project – to destroy them, look to Keynes | Larry Elliott

His first party conference speech as prime minister was full of fond memories for the Britain of the 1950s and 1960s, when working-class families could sense their lives steadily getting better. The underlying message of…

‘From Win24 to winning again: the campaign principles Labour should follow’

Share this article: For just over six years, I led the team in Labour HQ that was responsible for devising and delivering the party’s organisational strategy. I’m grateful to LabourList for allowing me to publish my…

Spain’s warning on drug pricing deals

Welcome to Thursday’s Morning Health Care! Kudos to all those who made it to the 6am hike ahead of another jam-packed day at the European Health Forum in Gastein. I won’t throw Claudia under the bus, but I, for one…

Ben Cooper column: ‘Labour can rebuild the middle ground on immigration’

For some commentators, migration is seen as only the concern of Reform voters, and that the government is somehow pandering to them by talking about the issue. That is not the case. For voters, it is frequently judged…

Grüne und SPD: Die Linke-Gewissensfrage in Berlin

Antisemitismus-Vorwürfe und mögliche Clan-Nähe belasten das Verhältnis schwer. Ob unter diesen Vorzeichen überhaupt ein Bündnis möglich ist oder die Parteien in Richtung einer Kenia-Koalition abbiegen, entscheidet sich…

The €865 billion brainstorming session

They also unpack the Commission and EU governments’ two-day brainstorming session on how a huge chunk of the next EU budget should work — and who may end up controling it. Plus, the Commission’s attempt to build a…