Sir John Major has attacked Donald Trump over the Iran war and accused Sir Keir Starmer of a “demeaning” policy of “tiptoeing” around the president. The former prime minister said President Trump should have sought United Nations backing for the war and claimed it would not end hostilities in the Middle East. In a hard-hitting…
Angela Rayner was “wrong” to stage a high-profile intervention criticising the direction of Sir Keir Starmer’s government this week, Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the veteran Labour peer said Ms Rayner had offered just “one criticism after another” rather than “positive proposals”. Politics…
👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 Angela Rayner has stepped back into the spotlight this week and straight into controversy. Her blunt intervention – warning the government is running out of time, criticising its record on “change”, and calling parts of Labour’s immigration policy “un-British” – has sparked…
Nicola Sturgeon, the nationalist firebrand who dominated Scottish politics for almost a decade, has bowed out with an emotional valedictory speech. Addressing the Scottish parliament for the final time, the former first minister said it was a wrench to leave Holyrood, but the time was right to move on. She was elected to the newly…
Cabinet ministers have looked at a blueprint for how Labour could cut taxes on work by taking on “vested interests” profiteering from the cost of living crisis. The draft paper, by the Labour Growth Group and Good Growth Foundation, argues for a complete overhaul of Labour’s economic strategy and messaging to prevent a far-right government….
