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‘A yearning for change’: Starmer and Brown set out their policy stall

Present and past leaders on how a Labour government would act boldly to end Britain’s ‘perpetual crisis’ and devolve power

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2022

Keir Starmer: Wrong to say Gordon Brown plan offers 'nothing of substance'

KEIR Starmer has insisted it is entirely wrong to suggest Gordon Brown’s masterplan for reforming the UK offers “nothing of substance” to the…

The National (Scotland) · Dec 5, 2022

Michael Gove in major climbdown to Tory rebels over house-building targets

Councils will be able to treat target as ‘advisory’ if it threatens rural and suburban areas

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022

MP: Disabled people ‘should not have to rely on celebrities’ over energy support

Shadow minister Vicky Foxcroft raised the case in the Commons of a woman who was facing a £17,000 energy bill simply to keep her daughter alive.

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2022

Strikes help Putin? What a terrible excuse for refusing nurses the rise they deserve

The Tory chairman’s desperate remarks show the government has run out of arguments for pay restraint. No wonder its winter of discontent has turned into a winter of fury, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2022

What happened to Jeremy Corbyn and will he stand again as a Labour MP?

Mr Corbyn has told the Standard ‘I love my job and I want to carry on doing it’

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2022

Eddie Izzard fails in bid to be selected as Labour candidate for Sheffield Central

Eddie Izzard had hoped to become a general election candidate for Labour

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2022

Does Keir Starmer want to level down London?

There are few things more damaging to a voting bloc’s long-term interests than the perception its members have nowhere else to go. One man who understood this was the Reverend Jesse Jackson.

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2022

Eddie Izzard fails in bid to become Labour MP

Comedian loses out to Abtisam Mohamed, who will stand as party’s candidate in Sheffield Central

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2022

Gordon Brown: Support ‘swelling’ for Labour under Starmer’s leadership

Last Labour PM said the public are backing Labour because the party is offering ‘real change’

Evening Standard · Dec 5, 2022