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THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Not a single job would be created, asylum hotel closed or pound knocked off the national debt by ousting Keir Starmer – it is time for the Labour Party to act like adults if it is to stop Nigel Farage from marching into No 10

NEWS ANALYSIS: Political editor David Maddox explains why successive UK governments have dithered over deciding whether Beijing is a friend or foe

David Lammy had been suggested as a potential replacement for Lord Mandelson, who was sacked over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Donald Trump’s first state visit to the UK, in June 2019, was an attempt by the British government to try to forestall the threat of Trumpism, a set of ideas and style of leadership that were not, in the end, embedded. The unprecedented second state visit of September 2025 has…

NEWS ANALYSIS: The prime minister can breathe easy after a three-day transatlantic love-in – but he must now turn his attention to problems at home, writes Millie Cooke

A Labour MP has used the emergency parliamentary debate to defend the process behind Lord Mandelson’s appointment, arguing it is no different to past failures made in the vetting of senior staff.

Trump's UK state visit hits storm: Giant Epstein photo banner at Windsor, London rallies rage over files & policies

Donald Trump’s second state visit in six years starts today at King Charles’s Windsor estate in style: a carriage ride (past Harry and Meghan’s old haunt of Frogmore Cottage, as it happens), a lavish evening banquet and panoply of military bands and fly pasts. It is a massive ceremonial courtesy…

Scotland’s First Minister claimed Labour ministers in London are ‘distracted’ amid the fallout from the peer’s departure.