Pro-Palestine grouping seeks to push Sir Keir Starmer on Gaza stance and UK arms sales to Israel
Prime minister promotes several newcomers straight into junior front bench roles
Also in this newsletter: Wall Street profits, Amazon union vote, science round-up
More than half of Sir Keir Starmer’s top team have criticised current Republican candidate in recent years
From packed prisons to closed police stations and courts, law and order is in retreat
Labour bill to axe hereditary peers from UK’s upper chamber to feature in monarch’s address next week
Party’s manifesto commitment to end child poverty piles pressure on government to act
Nigel Farage’s vow to build a ‘national movement’ rings alarm bells after slew of second-place election results
Power generator RWE says government risks securing ‘less than half’ of new capacity needed under current support scheme
Politics loves a winner but counterparts around the world face the perils of incumbency
UK chancellor seeks to establish government’s drive for higher economic growth as a ‘national mission’
Data released ahead of Labour announcement on freeing more prisoners to ease overcrowding
The UK government has also pulled support from a Cumbrian coal mine
Policy affected record 1.6mn children in the year to April 2024, according to new data
Also in this week’s newsletter, the government’s plans to ‘get Britain building’
To ‘get Britain building again’, as the new Labour government promises, the broken and underfunded system must be fixed
(And a mandate is not a landslide)
New Labour got lots wrong. But it got more right than most governments
Starmer’s government faces a familiar trade-off between the economics and the politics of foreign workers
Event was hosted by Global Counsel, the lobbying firm co-founded by former Labour minister Lord Peter Mandelson
Ministers face whack-a-mole task with industrial job losses across UK
Majid Freeman was a campaigner for Shockat Adam, who unseated Jonathan Ashworth in Leicester South
Labour’s promises are not going to spur a private sector solution to Britain’s housing crisis
Reform UK poses a real threat on the radical right but an improving economy and sense of hope is the best defence
Back in power, the party will quickly realise it has unfinished business opening up higher education to spread opportunity