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Many of Blue Labour’s diagnoses have been proved correct. With Reform targeting Labour’s working-class support, a reappraisal is overdue, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

The row began after the mayor sought to blame Boris Johnson for the Met Police’s current funding gap

"Sir Keir Starmer has managed to dodge becoming Britain's worst Prime Minister - all thanks to one controversial Conservative leader - in yet another humiliating polling blow."

From rescuing an MP from a suspected ‘KGB agent’ to MPs’ demands for peerages, stories from former chief whip Simon Hart’s diaries have drawn attention

Simon Hart’s new book makes several eye-opening claims about the final days of Tory rule

Heavy Is The Head that endorsed nine chicken nuggets and an Oreo McFlurry

The ex-Prime Minister, a fierce supporter of Ukraine, also rejected the US president’s ‘dictator’ claim against Volodymyr Zelensky

The former PM will pose for photographs and shake the hands of guests who stump up the fee

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The US president’s latest spurious outpourings – not least his suggestions that Volodymyr Zelensky is a ‘dictator’ and that Kyiv is to blame for Russia’s invasion – have further perturbed European leaders. It now falls to Sir Keir Starmer during his visit to Washington next week…

Editorial: The rule of law is under threat around the world, making it all the more vital to defend it at home

US president loses grip on reality, while delegates at a rightwing conference in London remain cocooned from real world