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Labour deputy leader candidate criticises ‘scaremongering’ on autism and says party must be firmer in tackling Reform

The Manchester Central MP made her pitch just days before party delegates and activists gather in Liverpool for their annual conference.

Conservative pin-up Andrew Hastie has ruled out a tilt at the Liberal leadership, saying he's focused on policy despite his rhetoric putting some MPs offside.

Letters: Readers respond to Jonathan Liew’s article about the effects of the toxic debate on immigration and the rise of the far right

Tom McTague is one of the best contemporary writers on the intersection of domestic politics with wider events and the role of character and quirk in shaping what follows. In Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016, the writer turned New Statesman editor undertakes a…

Home Office behaviour has convinced Hetticia and Vanderbilt McIntosh that only experts lawyers can change system

COMMENT: We need to have a grown-up conversation about racism, writes Ava Vidal – and I believe people are missing what the now partyless MP was actually trying to say

COMMENT: It was unwise of the prime minister to say he ‘deeply regrets’ the ‘island of strangers’ phrase, writes John Rentoul – but even more so to admit that he doesn’t always properly read his own speeches before delivering them

Immigration speech was criticised for echoing Enoch Powell’s ‘rivers of blood’ rhetoric

The Prime Minister said he had been ‘really shaken up’ after an alleged arson attack on his family home hours before the speech.

The prime minister said the alleged arson incident left he and his wife Victoria ‘really shaken up’