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In today’s newsletter: A shock defeat for the far right National Rally in France, while in the UK the new Labour government gets down to work

The cabinet includes senior ministers from the Tony Blair era, and those given peerages to sit in the House of Lords

Not one senior party figure originally thought he had a prayer of leading them back into government in a single parliament, but now he bestrides a transformed political landscape

With many MPs who served Blair and Brown, Starmer’s team is one of the most experienced in recent times

Sir Keir Starmer’s party is predicted to win 410 seats, falling short of New Labour’s result in 1997

Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule

Childcare features prominently in both major parties’ plans for work and personal finance. Keir Starmer wants to make early-years provision as universal as possible while the Conservatives claim they’re already transforming childcare and increasing funding to both boost children’s development and get mothers back to work.

WESTMINSTER MPs and parties benefited from over £100,000 in gifts and donations from the gambling industry in the past year...

Let’s take Starmer at its word that it is the party of wealth creation and growth, not redistribution and equality. What will this mean for our politics, asks David Edgerton, professor of modern British history at King’s College London

With Labour heavily predicted to win the upcoming UK election, there has been much talk about future tax plans.

Depending on who you ask, New Labour died in June 2007, when Tony Blair stood down as prime minister, or September 2010, when Ed Miliband was elected leader. Except, neither is quite right, in that the real demise can be pinpointed to May 2008, at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election.