6 h. ago The five steps Labour must take to get Britain working again, by recruitment boss LEE BIGGINS

Unemployment has rocketed to 4.7%, the highest in four years, and businesses are in retreat, rowing back on investment in the face of higher costs

Economics

5 d. ago Welsh council leader steps down criticising Labour's direction under Keir Starmer

Sean Morgan said his "moral standing" prevented him being "aligned with the Labour Party any longer"

Politics

1 week ago Crisis engulfs Labour as Angela Rayner is forced to step down as deputy PM

Starmer brings forward cabinet reshuffle to restore order but fallout likely to further damage party’s reputationKeir Starmer is battling to get a grip on the crisis that has engulfed his government, with his deputy prime minister Angela Rayner forced to step down after breaching the ministerial code over her tax arrangements.The prime minister brought forward a major cabinet reshuffle in an attempt to restore order and get back on the front foot after a damaging few days, with Yvette Cooper, David Lammy and Shabana Mahmood all moved to prominent new roles. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Labour resignations: Which ministers have stepped down since Keir Starmer became PM?

Angela Rayner became one of seven ministers sacked or forced to resign under Keir Starmer’s government

Politics

1 week ago Diversity drive to recruit more women or ethnic troops threatens to humiliate Britain's military and sideline white candidates, Shadow Defence Secretary warns

EXCLUSIVE: James Cartlidge fears the military could be sucked into another RAF-style discrimination scandal over its new recruitment deal with operator, Serco.

Events

1 week ago Gordon Brown says new child poverty report shows ‘urgent need to act’

His comments come ahead of the expected publication of the Government’s child poverty strategy this autumn.

Politics

2 w. ago My seven simple steps to help protect your savings from Labour's coming tax raid: JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Not only is our right to use cash Isas to shelter savings from tax under threat, but there will be no unfreezing of the Personal Savings Allowance.

Economics

3 w. ago Love’s Labour by Stephen Grosz review – the truth about relationships

In a series of revelatory case studies, a psychoanalyst lays bare the messy reality of romantic loveA maths lecturer, convinced his wife is cheating, will not check the CCTV footage that might confirm his fears but instead keeps a private tally of the number of pubic hairs she sheds in her underwear. One hair is “OK, acceptable”, more is evidence that she has been “having it off”, he says, unaware that he uses these delusions of her infidelity to protect himself from the dangers of intimacy. A high-flying Fulbright scholar becomes a sex worker to avenge the father she hates. An ex-nun discovers that her decades of religious seclusion were driven by an unconscious fear of pregnancy. A troubled young woman, seeking redress for her psychological losses, steals large sums of money that she will never spend.In Love’s Labour, the London-based, American-born psychoanalyst Stephen Grosz offers an antidote to the pat, sanitised love stories we absorb through rom...

Politics

3 w. ago Lord Blunkett says Starmer should suspend ECHR to deport thousands of rejected asylum seekers and 'get a grip' on migrant crisis

The ex-Labour home secretary urged ministers to take the 'radical' step as fury grows over the use of nearly 200 hotels to house 32,000 asylum seekers at taxpayers' expense

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3 w. ago Gooch gang boss Lee Amos held lag's hand in jail as he clutched his chest and died

Lee Amos, 48, collapsed in his cell at HMP Oakwood, a privately-operated category C prison in Staffordshire, on April 22 last year after suffering a heart attack

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3 w. ago Prisoner held hand of Gooch gang boss Lee Amos as he clutched chest in agony behind bars, inquest into his death hears

Gangster Lee Amos started to sweat and struggled to breathe following a gym session in prison

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