The grenade is Liz Truss. Labour loves to talk about her. Reeves reminded the House yesterday of two awkward facts: what the ...

Reeves’ advance U-turn on winter fuel already marked a return to more familiar territory. Labour MPs struggled to defend a policy that removed the benefit from almost all pensioners. Now, with it ...

It’s a dull grey day in the pebbledashed sprawl of north-west London when I first see Keir Starmer. We’re at RAF Northolt ...

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There is more dissent in the country – where assisted dying is legal – than MPs in the UK have been led to believe.

For one thing, Gnome immediately fell asleep once she began talking. His head drooped first, then his chin settled on his ...