Polly Toynbee

There is nothing left to be squeezed from disabled people or families, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

If the Makerfield MP is to be our next PM, he needs some immediate and memorable cost of living policies to avoid his predecessor’s fate, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Ten years on, our writers met to reflect on whether leaving the EU has made the UK richer or more racist – and how the union is doing without us

The vote Aditya: I have three distinct memories of that entire period: the sense of anger, the sense of the confusion in Westminster and

He’s the only person who can keep Nigel Farage out of Downing Street, so let’s embrace his unique blend of optimism and realism, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Labour has to match the success of its New Deal for young people in the late 1990s, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The right wants to paint Manchesterism in terms of north v south – but poverty everywhere is solved by prioritising the public purse over private pockets, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

When the “king of the north” called London “the world’s greatest capital city” this week, it didn’t reassure those who fear that Andy Burnham represents that old national grievance, the north-south divide. The right warned southerners that he was...

Our new PM will be hit by multiple crises when he enters No 10. Success or failure will depend on the decisions he makes in first 100 days, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee