The Latest Breaking News from Gordon Brown

COMMENT: Bruised by his welfare reforms battle, the prime minister is on a hook of his own making. With a little help from Westminster, he can wriggle off, says Andrew Grice

The Prince of Wales wants to help people who have been "screwed by society."

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Gordon Brown in which he urged MPs to reject the assisted dying bill in the vote on Friday and called for better end-of-life care

MPs are likely to have a vote on the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill on Friday.

Our obligations to each other are ill served if laws focus unduly on those who want assisted dying. The priority should be the best palliative care, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

INSIDE WESTMINSTER: After a spending review that came as a relief to many Labour backbenchers, the government must now start making the case for the ‘inevitable’ tax rises in the autumn that will be needed to deliver better public services, says Andrew Grice

COMMENT: The New Statesman’s new editor is a critical friend of the prime minister – very critical, as it turns out, writes John Rentoul (a former deputy editor of the magazine)

COMMENT: In her last-man-standing battle with the Treasury, Yvette Cooper has shone a light on how Starmer’s administration is now quietly tacking to the left, says Sean O’Grady

It’s a mistake to think that, when it comes to the UK economy, the Conservatives have always been seen by British voters as a safer pair of hands than Labour. But, notwithstanding the damaging austerity imposed on the country by David Cameron’s chancellor, George Osborne, it was, by and large,…