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UK government faces market jitters and political rebellion amid fiscal tensions
The UK government is facing rising tensions between fiscal discipline and political pressure as markets react to a Labour ...
Labour promised women better, safer lives: a year on, we decode the small wins and biggest let downs
On 5 July 2025, it was confirmed. Enter: Keir Starmer’s Labour party to 10 Downing Street, primed to save the day.
Zarah Sultana’s Labour resignation fails to initiate new Corbyn-led party
The same political concern animates the reluctance of the Corbyn camp and the Sultana camp’s efforts to bounce him into ...
In search of Labour’s ‘working people’ – the paradox at the heart of Keir Starmer’s first year in power
The new Labour government is pitching “change” to “working people” but it needs to update its idea of who these people are.
Crunch nears for UK's Reeves, with stability elusive and markets wary
After a year in office, Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves faces a reckoning over unmet promises of economic stability, ...
‘Worst of any prime minister’: Ten moments that defined Labour’s first year in power in the UK
From a ‘loveless landslide’ to excessive gloom and a climbdown forced by his own MPs, the UK prime minister has endured a ...
One year in, Labour has a surprising amount to celebrate. But you wouldn’t know it
On top of this, the government has become known for doing some remarkably un-Labour things. In September 2024, it changed the ...
Has Jeremy Corbyn joined Zarah Sultana's 'new left-wing party'? What we know
Jeremy Corbyn has only said "discussions are ongoing” after MP Zarah Sultana announced she was forming a new party with him.
A year after its landslide win, Britain’s Labour Party is navigating a tougher-than-expected path
It's been one year since Labour returned to power in a landslide victory that appeared to show the party had turned over a ...