Helen Chandler-Wilde

In the UK we’ve had years of news about traditional class-based voting patterns falling away, as people no longer split neatly for Labour and the Conservatives depending on their occupation.

Today marks day three of the bizarre story surrounding an alleged leadership plot by Wes Streeting.

An emerging political movement aims to make infrastructure, housing and growth cool for a generation of frustrated Britons.

An emerging political movement aims to make infrastructure, housing and growth cool for a generation of frustrated Britons.

Nigel Farage used to talk of his love for PFLs: proper effing lunches, where heavy food and multiple bottles of wine could keep the meal going till the evening. According to data compiled by our reporters, Reform has recently received some PFDs: proper effing donations, with the party raking in more than any other in the UK in the third quarter.

Predictions on the impact of AI vary widely.

Today we got the Office for National Statistics’s latest unemployment figures. In short they’re not looking good: joblessness rose to its highest level in nearly five years, standing at 5.1% in the three months ending in October.

One of the great tragedies of life is that there are more brilliant articles than we will ever have the time to read. But at Christmas and New Year, we get the chance to catch up a little.

Welcome to the Readout. We have a slightly different newsletter for you today: a quiz to keep you going through Christmas.

The biggest news today is again coming from the US, as it has been pretty much all week. To recap: US forces captured and ousted Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro (which Keir Starmer gave a tepid reaction to), and Donald Trump wants Greenland (Starmer even more tepid here).