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Five years after the Tories won over the ‘red wall’ with a pledge to restore deprived areas, voters in the north-east say they’ve given up waiting for change

Boris Johnson’s winning manifesto said it would ‘level up’ deprived parts of the UK by making the most of Brexit. Our writers drill down into the numbers to judge whether the party is making good on this promise

Mohamed Mansour, a Conservative senior treasurer, is one of several surprise recipients of honours

Former PM’s meeting with President Maduro, in capacity as hedge fund consultant, is under further scrutiny

It is a joke told and retold with such regularity that I'm a little self-conscious about resorting to it so early in a newsletter. Woody Allen says it best as Alvy Singer in the 1977 film, Annie Hall:

One wants to fix the second chamber. The other would scrap it and bring in the ‘Danish system’. Can they meet halfway?

We are used to hearing far-fetched tales about London from people with American accents. It was only in 2018 that the New York Times praised the city for having finally abandoned the boiled mutton and bowls of porridge that, according to the writer, had until then been just about the…

Labour deputy leader says she can provide tax advice given at time after Tory complaint to Manchester force

Opposition leader says some commitments were made before ‘the Tories did enormous damage to the economy’