21 h. ago 'Rachel Reeves looks exhausted. She can't deliver': Labour ministers drip poison to DAN HODGES on why the Chancellor is doomed... and tell the woeful reason she thinks it's all gone wrong

It was the expression that spoke for a nation. As Rachel Reeves delivered her speech on new transport investment, workers at the Mellor Bus factory appeared less than impressed.

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47 h. ago Kemi Badenoch refuses to kick Liz Truss out of Conservative Party

The Tory leader suggested such a move would be ‘neither here nor there’ for voters’ perception of the party.

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54 h. ago Relief for Starmer in Hamilton, but Reform has arrived as a force in Scotland

A Scottish Labour win in the Hamilton by-election has handed the prime minister a much needed boost, but the result reveals that Reform is a growing threat in parts of the UK Nigel Farage has never appealed to before, writes David Maddox

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60 h. ago SNP minister brands Labour campaign 'dreadful' despite party winning Hamilton by

Mairi McAllan said the SNP would "do a bit of soul-searching" after it suffered a surprise defeat in South Lanarkshire.

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3 d. ago Fury at minister's winter fuel insult: Campaigners hit out at claims the cut did NOT affect pensioners' health

Labour's pensions minister faced an angry backlash last night after he claimed that scrapping the winter fuel allowance last year had 'no effect' on the health of older people.

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4 d. ago More pensioners WILL get fuel payments this winter... but Labour admits not everyone will be eligible and ministers won't say how they will pay for it

Chancellor Rachel Reeves this morning said planned changes to the means-testing of winter fuel payments would be in place ahead of the colder months.

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4 d. ago DAN HODGES: Keir Starmer's just told the most serious lie a prime minister's made in my lifetime. Labour can't be trusted to keep us safe. War's now a real risk

In his first major speech of last year's General Election campaign Keir Starmer posed a rhetorical question.

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5 d. ago Second indyref not a ‘priority’ during my time as Prime Minister – Starmer

The Labour leader said First Minister and SNP leader John Swinney had not raised the issue with him during their recent talks.

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6 d. ago Starmer acknowledges need for swift clarity on winter fuel payments

The Prime Minister also did not steer away from suggestions that an announcement on the payment could come at the spending review on June 11.

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6 d. ago Scottish Labour leader and UK Energy Minister visit major Scottish wind farm

Key political voices in high praise of energy developers

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6 d. ago Going Nuclear by Tim Gregory review – a boosterish case for atomic energy

Safety concerns demand more space and consideration in this otherwise excellent work of popular scienceThere is something biblical about the fraternal relationship between the atomic bomb and the nuclear reactor. Both involve bombarding uranium-235 atoms with neutrons to produce a chain reaction via nuclear fission. Both were made possible in the same instant, at 3.25pm on 2 December 1942, when the Manhattan Project’s Enrico Fermi orchestrated the first human-made chain reaction in the squash court of the University of Chicago. “The flame of nuclear fission brought us to the forked road of promise and peril,” writes Tim Gregory.The bomb came first, of course, but atomic dread coexisted with tremendous optimism about what President Eisenhower dubbed “atoms for peace”: the potential of controlled fission to generate limitless energy. As David Lilienthal of the US Atomic Energy Commission observed, atom-splitting thus inspired a pseudo-religious binary: “It would either destr...

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer to unveil strategic defence review and put UK on ‘war

Prime minister to launch strategic defence review in Glasgow this morningStarmer repeats his claim that he has an ambition to get defence spending up to 3% of GDP in the next parliament.Q: But “ambition” is not a commitment. I can have a commitment to lose weight. That does not mean it will happen.What you can take from this is, yes, that 3% but I am not, as the prime minister of a Labour government, going to make a commitment as to the precise date until I can be sure precisely where the money is coming from, how we can make good on that commitment, because I don’t believe in performative fantasy politics, and certainly not on defence and security.Nato has been the single most effective alliance for keeping the peace for 80 years, and our job is not just to celebrate that as we do, but to ask ourselves the searching question as I ask myself on a daily basis, which is, how do we ensure that Nato preserves the peace for decades to come for this generation? Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters

Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’The Labour faction influencing Downing Street’s pitch to Reform UK voters has urged ministers to “root out DEI”.An article from the Blue Labour campaign group, titled What is to be Done, calls for the government to legislate against diversity, equity and inclusion, echoing the rightwing backlash from Donald Trump and Nigel Farage. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Keir Starmer threatens to unleash 'bath time tax' in 'war on UK family homes'

Water companies are seeking to introduce a new charging system that would see households using the most water pay the highest rates, with ministers under a Labour government saying they are open to the idea

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7 d. ago Swinney plans political stunt at charity which had funding cut by SNP government

SUNDAY MAIL EXCLUSIVE: The First Minister's by-election blunder has been called hypocritical by Labour

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7 d. ago Labour accused of 'quietly urging shamed MP Andrew Gwynne to stay on' over fears of losing another by

Former health minister Andrew Gwynne, suspended by Labour after his racist and sexist comments were exposed earlier this year, was facing appeals from party officials to stay on.

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7 d. ago Rachel Reeves told it is ‘impossible’ to invest in growth, public services and net zero in spending review

Labour chancellor under pressure over spending plans as deputy prime minister Angela Rayner among those whose departments fail to settle budget with the Treasury

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7 d. ago UK to spend £1.5bn on new weapons factories in response to threat posed by Putin

Labour defence secretary John Healey and prime minister Keir Starmer to unveil new strategic defence review as war rages on the edge of Europe

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8 d. ago Starmer in race against time to stop Trump’s shock 50% steel tariffs hitting UK

US President has announced a huge extra levy on a critical industry, while his trade deal with the Labour prime minister is still not implemented

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8 d. ago Labour ministers under pressure as viral video shows broken promises to nuclear veterans

A video showing Labour ministers promising compensation to nuclear veterans has gone viral, putting the government under pressure to keep its word

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