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There is a formula to winning general elections. If your leader outperforms his or her principal rival and your party leads on the economy, you are going to win. There is no example, since records began, of a party which led on those two measures and then went on to…

Scaling back of green prosperity plan reflects a possibly costly desire to project fiscal stability

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are cautious about spending plans. Rejoining the EU would create the prosperity to fund them

Opposition finds fallout of Liz Truss mini-budget has raised average mortgage interest payments by £150 a week in two years

The £28bn delay caps weeks of turmoil over Labour’s green ambitions, but if he’s serious about them, the leader will need to get used to it

Lynton Crosby, the Australian political strategist who has run multiple general election campaigns for the Conservatives, is a font of striking sayings. From the ‘dead cat strategy’ (see Michael Fallon) to the idea you ‘can’t fatten a pig on market day’. But right now, it’s all about another of his…

The argument that markets will react badly to borrowing doesn’t wash, says the former shadow chancellor John McDonnell

Labour has watered down plans to spend £28bn a year on green investment after internal tensions over Labour’s flagship economic policy.

THE SNP leader has said the latest Labour U-turn will have “real and damaging consequences” for Scotland's green energy growth.

Former prime minister to be suspended for 10 days and will not stand again in Uxbridge and South Ruislip

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said the party would 'ramp up' investment in green projects over time but said the economic carnage inflicted on Britain by Liz Truss had narrowed Labour's options