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So, it’s farewell to Angela Rayner, at once the most interesting, the most flammable and the most catastrophically embarrassing member of the Labour front bench. For better and worse, she was a lightning conductor for Sir Keir Starmer. As his Deputy, she did what deputies aren’t supposed to do, namely,…

Northerner whose emotional openness was an electoral asset eventually had to follow advice she had given to Tory rivals and quit

Frustration among deputy PM’s allies that after surviving waves of stories, tax row gave her opponents an open goal

Former Lib Dem MP David Alton taken to hospital amid claims the ‘out of control’ No24’s brakes may have failed

COMMENT: The recruitment of former Tory minister Nadine Dorries is being hailed as a coup for Nigel Farage. Really? Sean O’Grady argues that her slavish devotion to Boris Johnson and her track record in government suggest she’ll soon become a liability

Here is a list of politicians who have recently defected to Reform UK

As Reform gathers for its conference, momentum builds for ditching the European convention on human rights. It would be a disaster, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Clacton MP described a back-and-forth he had with Democrat representative Jamie Raskin during the hearing as ‘political games’.

Nigel Farage will be wooing corporate guests at the NEC in Birmingham as his party aims to build on recent successes

Nigel Farage's anti-immigration party Reform UK kicks off Britain's annual party conference season Friday, with the Brexit cheerleader and his buoyant supporters increasingly confident he could be Britain's next leader.

In an interview with the Daily Mail, the ex-Conservative culture secretary said ‘the Tory Party is dead’.