One paradox of Keir Starmer’s government is that while many of its most important ministers and senior special advisers are either card-carrying Blairites or Blair-era retread appointments (or both), ...

The government’s rivals are circling after tax hikes burned the bridges that Rachel Reeves had painstakingly built before the ...

The government is focused relentlessly on reforming our schools to deliver better life chances for every child.” ...

A Tory environmental group has said Kemi Badenoch has made a mistake in claiming that reaching net zero by 2050 is not ...

The answer to that, after a mere eight months of Labour government, is obviously “not yet” – it’s far too early. But what is ...

And that comes at a price. The cost of long-term sickness and disability benefits for working-age people has risen by £20 ...

Another day, another flurry of fake news from the No10/Treasury variety double act, and with characteristic comic timing, too ...

Dr Upul Wijayawardhana That it invariably leads to disaster when politicians attempt to tinker with what they know very little about is well illustrated by what is happening to the British National ...

"There's no such thing as society" - nearly 40 years after Mrs Thatcher's famous speech are her words finally coming true in ...

Little-known Tory party chairman Nigel Huddleston (right) and the entire party board are heading to the Bodleian Library in ...

Martin Ivens is the editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Previously, he was editor of the Sunday Times of London and its ...