Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports on Rachel Reeves weeping at Prime Minister’s Questions & a bad week for Labour.

To do that he’d need our permission. Meaning Keir Starmer wouldn’t be able to just sit on the sidelines. He’d have no choice but to either tell the Orange Man to do one, and thus risk wrecking the ...

The tinderbox trauma in the Middle East is a chilling display of the limits to any government’s financial power, anywhere in the world. Just as Chancellor Rachel Reeves finally seems to be getting her ...

Balancing the Books Karl Marx’s suggestion that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, doesn’t seem quite right, because this summer’s threatened wave of strikes doesn’t feel ...

putin1984 Again With the world’s military and economic apparatus feeling fragile in Donald Trump’s hands, the Prime Minister is clearly channelling Winston Churchill’s famous wartime slogan. As our ...

It’s everywhere, in every sense, just now. While great swathes of Britain and Ireland have been pulverised by record-breaking gales, Donald Trump has hit the White House with a hurricane of terrifying ...

For everyone, it seems, not least the Prime Minister. After Washington, for high-stakes but as yet unresolved soul-searching about letting Ukraine penetrate Russia with western long-range missiles, ...

In the week that saw students mostly but far from all whooping for joy over their A-level results, it’s worth asking how well our new government’s been performing in its first few weeks. Our Political ...

With tumultuous events unfolding everywhere, the IT outage and US election turbulence just for starters, it’s easy to lose track of our new Prime Minister’s steady-as-he-goes approach to running the ...

Change is certainly in the air, and the handwringing is already well under way. Notably by Tories facing imminent redundancy or years of impotent opposition, and wondering which is worse. As our ...

In the war of the words Rishi Sunak’s been on a winning streak lately. Rwanda bill passed, defence spending up, and last week’s sick-note culture clampdown garnering headlines. Tick tick tick then.