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 ...

Why are 1.3 million people on mental health benefits? - Twice as many people are claiming mental health benefits as a decade ...

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

My last job in Government was Minister of State for the Armed Forces. A key responsibility of mine was liaising with the ...

Overseas development has always fallen in and out of favour between governments. But this feels different – and terminal.

Margaret Thatcher would have loved Keir Starmer — he's now more Tory than the Tories - With policies echoing Thatcher, Keir ...

Many negative things have been written about the Labour win of 2024, but if we're honest it's not been all that bad.

The Prime Minister has announced plans to cut the number of quangos to reduce red tape - but vows to scrap just one of the 27 ...