5 h. ago ANDREW PIERCE: This is why ZERO Britons think Starmer's Labour government has the ability to make us better off

Has there ever been a more terrible, damning indictment of a government than ZERO people in a poll saying they're optimistic this government can make us feel better off?

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4 d. ago Reed: Voters not going to give PM benefit of the doubt until they feel change

It came after Sir Keir Starmer used a newspaper interview to defend his premiership.

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9 d. ago Anas Sarwar hits out at Downing Street briefers 'undermining' Labour government led by Keir Starmer

Anas Sarwar has accused Downing Street briefers of “undermining” the message of the Labour UK government.

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9 d. ago Anas Sarwar hits out at briefers 'undermining' Labour government led by Keir Starmer

Anas Sarwar has accused briefers of “undermining” the message of the Labour UK government.

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1 week ago Government ‘riven with internal dissent’, says Swinney after Streeting briefing

Scots will be ‘taken aback’ by the internal wrangling at the top of the UK Government, the First Minister said.

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2 w. ago Labour's new deputy leader warns party not to break tax manifesto promise

Former Cabinet minister Lucy Powell says it is important for Keir Starmer's government to stand by the promises made before Labour's landslide election victory

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2 w. ago Economists urge Reeves to make ‘difficult’ choices to boost market confidence

Experts said the Chancellor should prioritise bringing down Government borrowing costs.

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3 w. ago Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ahead of the budget, Rachel Reeves should be out making her arguments. Instead, there is silence – and a huge opportunity for Labour’s opponentsScroll back three years. The person sitting opposite me is yet to take their place at the top of Keir Starmer’s government. Instead, they are a star of the Labour opposition, for whom power advances or recedes with every poll and front page. They have just done a spot of electoral marketing, a photo op at a supermarket 100 or so miles from Westminster, and what they’ve brought home is the politics of the staff.“They’d all voted for Boris.”Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Labour must ‘shut down legacy state’ in drive for digital ID, says minister

Darren Jones told Cabinet colleagues on Tuesday that digital ID would make people’s experience of a new state ‘fundamentally much better’.

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3 w. ago Labour not ‘bold enough’ says Powell as she becomes deputy leader

Lucy Powell’s victory in the deputy leadership contest could add to Sir Keir Starmer’s headaches at the end of a bruising week.

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4 w. ago Lucy Powell wins Labour deputy leadership race to add to Starmer’s headaches

The Manchester Central MP was sacked from the Government by Sir Keir Starmer and will now be a prominent voice on the back benches.

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