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Editorial: Economic and academic activity are bound up together. Charging international students more for less will not fix deep-seated problems

The prime minister’s new chief secretary has been out and about trying to calm the storm after Angela Rayner’s exit

With the party tanking and Farage in No 10 a possibility, we need a unifying figure who will wake the party from its slumber, says Neal Lawson of Compass

The contest to become deputy Labour leader is set to be an intriguing and potentially divisive process.

EMBATTLED Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay has suffered a frontbench resignation.

Potential candidates need backing of at least 20% of parliamentary party, as Shabana Mahmood rules herself out

The starting gun has been fired on the race to succeed Angela Rayner as deputy leader of the Labour Party.

COMMENT: The race to be the party’s deputy is likely to bring out a host of disgruntled candidates – none more politically damaging, or more popular with the grass-roots, than Louise Haigh, the former transport secretary that Starmer sacked, says former Labour adviser Patrick Diamond

The party is electing a new deputy leader following Angela Rayner’s resignation after breaching the ministerial code over her flat purchase.