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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

Keir Starmer wasn’t a natural at turning on the Christmas lights in Downing Street this week, counting down from five to one like a schoolteacher before a nervous “Waheeey, it worked” when they did

Who is Keir Starmer against? It is no longer Boris Johnson, who he pursued over partygate. It is no longer Liz Truss or Rishi Sunak. And not for much longer can it be “fourteen years of Tory rule”