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Starmer’s new megadonor threatens to outweigh the influence of the unions, argues Paul Demarty

He had no regard for truthfulness, and now we see others happy to follow his example, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Former Kaduna Central Senator, Shehu Sani has disclosed that some governors on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are working for the

From the blog of Judith Ornstein at The Times of Israel

It has been estimated that Labours policy of scrapping fees - as well as bringing back maintenance grants - would cost around £6billion per year.

LORNA Slater has been accused of breaching the ministerial code after she compared critics of government plans to reform gender recognition laws to…

Becky Talbot is a doula – an independent birth worker – in Cambridge who was central to initiating the protests by midwives and birth workers across the country on 21 November. She spoke to Sacha Ismail.

The best hope for re-founding a genuine working-class party in Britain lies in splitting current Labour Party - separating the dreadful, anti-working class Blairite clique from the remaining socialists in the Party and from its trade union base. The left part of the split could join with socialists and unions currently outside Labour. That seems to me a much more likely scenario to work towards than either 'reclaiming' the Labour Party, or bolting together a new workers' party fro...

Ships fit for a Duke of Edinburgh: a history A brush-up for HMS Duke of Edinburgh, shortly after surviving the Battle of Jutland Credit: The Montifraulo Collection/Getty This idea has a precedent. The first HMS Duke of Edinburgh was named in accordance with the wishes of King Edward VII, to honour his younger brother Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh following his sudden death in 1900. In contrast to Prince Philip, who had to abandon his naval career to support the Queen, Prince Alfred was able to purs...

EU ambassadors say they have given a “green light” to Britain’s post-Brexit trade deal, due to come into force on Friday. Focus now switches to MPs here, who will vote on the new agreement at a special sitting of parliament on Wednesday. Some Labour MPs say they will vote against the deal, while fishermen’s leaders have called it a “betrayal”.