Lara Spirit

A record 335 new MPs are having a frenzied freshers’ week learning to navigate the corridors of power … literally. Will they find an office?

Labour has adopted Mariana Mazzucato’s idea of state-led ‘missions’ for the economy but she believes bosses should not get taxpayer support without something in return

Winter fuel vote will test PM’s resolve as he tries to unpick ‘strivers v scroungers’ narrative and get people back to work

When Rishi Sunak announced a July election, its merits weren’t obvious to, well, anyone. But I thought I’d hit upon one advantage. For wasn’t avoiding an overlapping election with the US a sound idea?

The long-time Labour donor at the centre of Sir Keir Starmer’s freebies furore will face scrutiny over a firm in the British Virgin Islands

There is a section of the Commons tea room known informally as “the neutral bit”. Here, MPs from different parties can chat easily, even cordially. After hearing that James Cleverly had been kicked

Guessing over the contents of the chancellor’s crucial speech can soon end

There you have it. A budget “to wipe the slate clean”, as Rachel Reeves put it this week. A moment so eagerly anticipated, its stakes so high, that it’s hard to admit to oneself now that it’s truly

The publicity-shy former MP has been credited with turning boosting his friend’s campaign to lead the Conservatives

Ministers must consider public perception around free gifts, as the prime minister seeks to draw a line under gifts row that dominated administration’s early days