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How else to explain Honest Bob Jenrick winding up as shadow justice secretary?

Leader names rival in shadow cabinet but announcement marred by leaks suggesting Jenrick wanted bigger job

Editorial: This parliament’s real battle won’t be cultural, it will be over the size of the state

Sir Keir Starmer responded to the campaigner’s request for assistance on Tuesday.

Council will cut over £800,000 in grants to local charities as it tackles a projected £37m overspend

The lead campaigner told MPs he wrote to Sir Keir Starmer around a month ago, and again more recently.

LABOUR have been accused of a “complete lack of judgement” after two senior figures met with Israeli politician Merav Michaeli ...

After winning the Conservative party’s protracted post-election leadership contest, Kemi Badenoch gave a short, rather downbeat speech. It was not quite “blood, toil, tears and sweat”, but it wasn’t too far off. Badenoch said the tasks in front of the party were “tough but simple”: to oppose and scrutinise the…

Head of OBR says spending commitment would have ‘materially changed’ its forecast on Jeremy Hunt’s pre-election budget

Richard Hughes was speaking to a cross-party committee of MPs on Tuesday.

The new shadow justice secretary asked how many domestic abusers and sex offenders were freed under the scheme to increase prison capacity.