was not included in Ms Collinge’s returns. The Tories have also identified five other constituencies that Ms Rayner’s battle bus visited during the election, and whose Labour candidate did not ...

Labour was the party that created the welfare state. Now it is intent on cutting it back. And in Liz Kendall, the government has found a Labour work and pensions secretary clearly entirely ...

Alarmingly, the labour market is “softening fast” and “much of the rest of Labour’s economic agenda” is aimed at “squeezing out the lower-paid jobs that are most likely to suit someone ...

A Labour MP has broken ranks over the government's £5bn benefit cuts, saying they will have a "devastating" impact on coastal communities like his. Chris Webb, the newly elected MP for Blackpool ...

Healey was a titan of Labour’s “old right” – the pre-New Labour wing that triumphed over the hard left in the 1980s and whose figureheads have included Jim Callaghan, Tom Watson, Michael Dugher and ...

was not included in Ms Collinge’s returns. The Tories have also identified five other constituencies that Ms Rayner’s battle bus visited during the election, and whose Labour candidate did not ...

The survey by Techne UK saw Labour gain a point to 26 per cent and Nigel Farage’s party fall back one to 25 per cent. The Tories remained on 22 per cent, a total they have been stuck on for a month.

Liz Kendall’s announcement in the House of Commons that £5bn needed to come off the welfare bill by 2030 was made in defiance of a strong Labour tradition ... Philip Collins is a former Number 10 ...

National's Chris Bishop and Labour's Chris Hipkins didn't hold back. Labour this week provided the Herald with two lists (one for Labour’s first year and one for National’s first year ...

Labour is gearing up to increase its attacks on Nigel Farage’s Reform UK over his party’s stance on Russia, as fresh polling makes clear that the public is strongly pro-Ukraine. It comes amid ...

Up to 30,000 jobs could be cut as part of Labour's plan to overhaul the NHS, it was reported last night. The figure is far higher than the 10,000 roles set to be axed by abolishing NHS England.

The folk singer, cowboy-boot-wearing, Jaguar-driving journalist turned speechwriter courageously took down the mob in his home state of Connecticut before wielding his pen to confront the evils of ...