Keir Starmer has had the worst first year of any Labour prime minister since 1945 – less impressive, even, than Harold Wilson ...

Rachael Maskell, Labour MP for York Central, said: “It is imperative that the Government scrap the two child limit and the ...

But as our recent Independent Ask Me Anything Q&A revealed, it’s the government now feeling the heat – politically bruised, ...

Labour are at the bottom of their barrel right now, but there's still some scraping to be done which will hurt the UK even ...

Pollsters say there is space for a populist party of the left - but Jeremy Corbyn not necessarily the person to lead it ...

The inability of Britain's government to make cuts to welfare spending this week underscores the extent of the challenges it ...

Labour MP Zarah Sultana announced plans to set up a new left-wing political party alongside Jeremy Corbyn, taking aim at the government for having “completely failed to improve people’s lives”.

After a year in office, Britain’s finance minister Rachel Reeves faces a reckoning over unmet promises of economic stability, with a stop-start economy and restive bond markets pointing to another tax ...

Over 120 Labour MPs signed a rebel amendment to the Government’s Welfare Reform Bill, a staggering rebellion at any time, but ...

Economists have called on Chancellor Rachel Reeves to exercise fiscal discipline after a “rollercoaster” week in the bond ...

Allies of Keir Starmer will be tempted to dismiss the announcement that Jeremy Corbyn is set to form a breakaway party ...

The reasons for Reeves’s distress remain shrouded in mystery: she looked strained but smiled gamely and admitted that she ...