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What was the Prime Minister really saying about immigrants and immigration? By David Miller In 2016, when he was a Shadow Home Office Minister, I posted Keir Starmer a copy of my book about ...

Working-class voters did not abandon the party – we have forced them to leave By Al Carns The English, Scottish and Welsh election results didn’t come from nowhere. They follow years of working people ...

The London mayor on Labour’s “catastrophic” results in the capital, and the Chancellor’s “doom and gloom” putting off ...

All parties when they govern are effectively a coalition”, said David Lammy on Thursday night, when the deputy PM was in the ...

Andrew Marr is editor at large of the New Statesman. He is a former political editor of BBC News, and hosts Tonight with Andrew Marr on LBC radio. This is no way to govern Also: Tory-Reform electoral ...

Why the State of Israel is central to Jewish identity. By Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis It is said that Chaim Weizmann, who would later become the first president of the State of Israel, was once asked ...

The UK is deploying facial recognition and AI tools at scale. The law is playing catch up By Rhi Storer In April, the Home Office announced £115m of new funding to create the “Police.AI” centre. Its ...

New polling casts doubts on Labour plans to win over Nigel Farage’s voters By Bartholomew Roberts When Lucy Powell was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in October 2025 she said: “We won’t win ...

Local elections map: which seats could Labour lose? More than 5,000 seats are up for grabs in England By Ben Walker More than 5,000 council seats are up for grabs on Thursday. Just four years ago, the ...

His alarming cognitive decline deserves the scrutiny that Joe Biden received. By Lee Siegel The process of removing Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate can’t exactly be said to have worked ...

Follow our interactive map as we update it throughout with the latest results By Ben Walker Use the toggle at the bottom-left of the map to switch between views of the previous winners and the 2026 ...