26 m. ago Green leader warns of authoritarian ‘alarm bells’ in conference speech

Zack Polanski, the newly elected leader of the Green Party, criticised Labour and Reform in conference speech on Friday.

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30 m. ago Zack Polanski warns Keir Starmer’s Britain is descending into authoritarianism

The politician is pitching the Green Party as a left-wing alternative for disgruntled Labour voters

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46 m. ago ANDREW PIERCE reveals Starmer's fatal mistake which 'raised Nigel Farage to the status of a martyr'

Sir Keir Starmer made Nigel Farage the focus of his keynote speech at the Labour Conference in Liverpool, repeatedly taking aim at the Reform UK leader's policies and politics.

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83 m. ago Keir Starmer a ‘handmaiden’ to the rise of Reform UK, Green Party’s Polanski warns

Zack Polanski is pitching the Green Party as a left-wing alternative for disgruntled Labour voters

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7 h. ago 'Starmer accused me of being racist': Joyce who became centre point of PM's conference speech reveals what REALLY happened

Keir Starmer's anecdote about meeting retiree Joyce Todd became the centrepiece of his leader's speech at the Labour Party conference.

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17 h. ago Labour are ‘handmaidens’ to Reform, Green Party leader to tell conference

Zack Polanski will also insist that migrants and refugees ‘are part of what makes Britain great’.

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21 h. ago Readers' letters: Labour conference was a propaganda coup for Reform

A reader suggests Keir Starmer’s set piece confence speech was a missed opportunity

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24 h. ago Baroness Mone accuses Chancellor of ‘inflammatory’ language in letter to PM

Rachel Reeves is reported to have joked that the Government had a vendetta against peer Lady Mone during a fringe event at Labour’s party conference.

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26 h. 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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29 h. ago Starmer only has 'breathing space' until May elections after Labour conference... as Budget looms, Cabinet 'revolts on digital ID push' and resentment festers over reshuffle

Ministers and activists publicly rallied round the PM at the gathering in Liverpool, as Keir Starmer tried to lift the mood with brutal barbs at Nigel Farage .

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30 h. ago 'I'm the woman Keir Starmer used to prove he understands people's concerns about migration... now I don't believe a word he says': Life

Earlier this week Sir Keir told his party's conference he twigged 'the Left had got it wrong on illegal immigration' when he visited the town of Oldham ten years ago and spoke to a pensioner.

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33 h. ago We spoke to the Oldham woman Keir Starmer mentioned in Labour conference speech

A woman in Oldham helped change the direction of Labour's approach to immigration - but now says she 'doesn't believe' them

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45 h. ago QUENTIN LETTS: Ambitious Ed took ownership of the PM. Maybe, just maybe, he could seize the helm again...

When we could all have done with some soothing liniment, up stepped Ed Miliband to create a fresh squall of argy-bargy. It was the last morning of Labour's tetchy conference.

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45 h. ago Soul searching over threat from Reform dominates end of Labour conference

As Liverpool gathering wraps up, debate focuses on how to tackle Nigel Farage

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47 h. ago Forget Andy Burnham – these are the five people who could actually be the next prime minister

Political editor David Maddox looks at the five contenders who have emerged this week at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool as potential leadership candidates

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47 h. ago London tax bombshell: 170,000 would be hit by stealth income threshold freeze extension

Rachel Reeves admitted during the Labour Party Conference that she no longer stands by her pledge last year not to raise taxes

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49 h. ago Miliband tells Musk to ‘get the hell out of our politics and our country’

Blistering attack at Labour conference comes after tech billionaire has used X to hit out at British government

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50 h. ago Powell and Phillipson vie for votes as Labour conference draws to a close

The pair displayed little disagreement during a hustings at the end of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool on Wednesday.

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50 h. ago Ignore the naysayers, Lady Starmer... Your Labour conference wardrobe was quietly clever

Keir Starmer may have had a tricky time at party conference in Liverpool but Lady Starmer has breezed through it looking like a Prime Minister's wife for serious times that require hard choices.

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51 h. ago Miliband vows to ban fracking, labels Reform ‘ideological extremists’ and tells Musk to ‘get the hell out of our politics’ – live

Environmental groups have welcomed the energy secretary’s fracking announcementAt the Labour conference Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, has just started his speech.Responding to the news that he will announce a total ban on fracking (see 9.19am), Asad Rehman, chief executive of Friends of the Earth, said:By providing a clear vision for our energy future based on helping people, not on ignoring the science, the energy secretary has sent an important message that the government is listening to communities.Fracking is and always has been unpopular, both with people facing it off locally and the wider public. The government must now translate its plans to ban fracking permanently into policy, alongside closing a loophole in planning law that still allows it to happen by the backdoor.Andy Burnham is doing a fantastic job as the mayor of Manchester. I actually worked closely with him. We’ve reset that relationship between Westminster and our mayors, and we’re working well together. So ...

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