3 w. ago Wes Streeting knows he can save Labour by saving the NHS. So why isn’t he talking about it more?

Wes Streeting was animated in his fight against Nigel Farage during the Labour Conference, but how did he get on winning people over in the health arena? Health correspondent Rebecca Thomas was there to find out

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3 w. ago Starmer urges Labour to launch ‘patriotic’ fight against Reform

Prime minister calls Nigel Farage a ‘snake oil salesman’ in speech aimed at party’s working-class base

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3 w. ago Shabana Mahmood calls Nigel Farage ‘worse than racist’ over ‘dog

Home secretary also tells Labour conference fringe event of the abuse her family have been subjected to recently Warning: this article contains language that some may find offensiveThe home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, has accused Nigel Farage of “worse than racist” dog-whistle politics as she described how members of her family had been racially abused near their home in recent weeks.After a speech calling on Labour and the UK to “fight for our belief in a greater Britain, not a littler England”, she said the Reform leader has “blown a very, very loud dog whistle to every racist in the country” with policies that would reassess the immigration status of people who have been granted a right to settle in the UK. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Labour must fight rightwing billionaires undermining net zero, says Ed Miliband

Exclusive: Energy secretary will hit out at the Tory and Reform ‘culture war’ and unveil target of 400,000 new jobs in clean energyLabour is in a fight against “global network of right-wing billionaires” who want to undermine net zero for their “vested interests”, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, has said.He said that the Tories and Reform UK were “importing a net zero culture war” and that accelerating the green transition would be key to winning the argument with the public. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Labour takes fight to Reform on diversity as Kendall backs scheme for women in tech

Exclusive: Reform UK has made scrapping diversity and equality initiatives one of its top priorities

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3 w. ago Starmer urges Labour to unite for ‘fight of our lives’ ahead of conference

UK prime minister calls key Reform policy ‘racist’ as he focuses fire on Nigel Farage’s party

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3 w. ago Starmer pleads for space to lead Labour in ‘fight of our lives’ against Reform

The under-pressure Prime Minister told his party that now is not the time for ‘introspection or navel-gazing’.

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3 w. ago Labour conference 2025 live: Starmer rallies MPs to join fight against Reform UK as Liverpool event begins

Starmer under pressure as Labour trail behind Reform UK in polls as conference begins

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3 w. ago Labour Party Conference LIVE: Starmer ready to take fight to Farage in Liverpool

Speaking ahead of the conference, the Keir Starmer warned the Labour party that history will not forgive his government if it fails to defeat Reform UK and the populist right

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4 w. ago Keir Starmer calls Nigel Farage's Reform 'the enemy' and says Labour must win 'fight for the soul of the nation' ahead of party conference

The Prime Minister is expected to warn dissatisfied party members that now is not the time for infighting - instead they should be uniting.

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4 w. ago If Starmer wants to beat Reform, he’ll need more than ‘patriotic renewal’ – whatever that is | Zoe Williams

Today’s big ‘fightback’ speech continued with the prime minister’s curious strategy of ceding ground to his enemiesKeir Starmer was at his most clear today not in his speech to the Global Progress Action Summit in London, trailed as a fightback against the politics of hate and division, but in the panel afterwards. That’s when he said he wanted the next election to be an “open fight” between “Labour and Reform”. In the speech itself, however, he identified his enemies in the abstract. He was against the “politics of predatory grievance”, which used the “infrastructure of division”. He also made a lovely case for London at the start, with its plentiful pubs and pleasant parks, remarking wryly that it was nothing like “the wasteland of anarchy that some would have you believe”.The problem is he needs to pick a lane. Either he was referring to Donald Trump’s comments at the UN earlier this week, when the leader of the free world said Britain’s capital had a “terrible mayor, terrible, t...

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4 w. ago UK politics live: Starmer says next election will be ‘open fight’ between Labour and Reform

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4 w. ago Labour MPs call for action to tackle deprivation in coastal ‘sea wall’ seats

Exclusive: Group warn coastal communities need greater investment to reduce inequality and fight off threat from ReformA group of Labour MPs representing coastal areas will demand urgent action to tackle deprivation in their seats, warning a lack of progress could leave them vulnerable to Reform.They will use the party conference this weekend to call for an equivalent of the London Challenge, which turned around failing schools in the capital under Tony Blair’s government, but with a focus on post-16 training and apprenticeships. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Rachel Reeves urged by 100 Labour MPs to hike gambling taxes to fight child poverty

More than 100 Labour MPs have backed calls made by Gordon Brown to target tax hikes on highly profitable parts of the gambling industry - such as online casinos and slot machines

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