Left Labour News Today

With the 2024 general election set to be the highest-spending contest ever we look at who is giving to which party and why.

For the tourists who flock here year-round, the city of Tromsø in northern Norway feels very far from the world’s troubles. Perched amid fjords above the rim of the Arctic Circle, it offers Northern Lights tours and husky sledding in winter, and midnight sun and whale watching in summer.

Links forged half a century ago mean that support for Palestine goes well beyond gesture politics in this part of Norway

SIR – Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, has been unveiling Labour’s plans to fix the NHS (report, December 2). They sound plausible enough – except for one detail.

STEPHEN GLOVER: Lets give praise where it is due. Sir Keir Starmer has behaved courageously in defending Israel since Hamas launched its horrific pogrom nearly five weeks ago.

The 10th Duke of Beaufort devoted much of his zeal to extramarital affairs and to keep the husbands of his girlfriends happy, he often asked them to come shooting.

The party leader used his keynote conference speech in Liverpool to hammer home the partys support for Israel after the anti-Semitism crisis of the Jeremy Corbyn era.

ANDREW PIERCE: Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner have been an odd political couple ever since she won the deputy leadership with 53 per cent of the vote - double the total of her closest rival.

Supporters flock back to the Conservatives under Rishi Sunak, with the party raking in more than £14m in three months

Mr Bentley, 25, joined the BBC in September and is expected to play a key role in helping to fact-check political debates in the run-up to the next General Election. The role requires absolute impartiality.