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Prime minister lambasts Nigel Farage and the politics of Reform in combative Labour conference speech

Labour’s Karen Shore lost to Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election by six votes.

Publisher says stopping it from talking to Nottinghamshire council’s leader is breach of the right to free expression

Editorial: Labour’s leader framed his fight with Reform as decency against grievance. But without pledges on improving living standards, his rhetoric risks ringing hollow

Chancellor fails to deny report she will make an announcement on the controversial policy in her Budget statement

Keir Starmer received a huge reception from the party faithful as he gave his most impassioned speech yet as leader

Labour chancellor under pressure to scrap policy, brought in as part of the Tory government’s ‘austerity’ plans

PM sounded like a decent man making the case for decency – it’s just not clear if that’s what the British public demands of its politicians these days

NEWS ANALYSIS: Emboldened by the ‘enemy’ Reform, this was the prime minister like we have never seen him before, writes political editor David Maddox

At Labour’s 2025 conference, Starmer’s chosen political narrative has been to draw a line between himself and Nigel Farage, between Labour and Reform – a choice between “decency and decline”. Labour represents a progressive patriotism and national renewal – and Reform a backwards-facing “politics of grievance”.

In her address to the Labour party conference, the new home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, confirmed plans to overhaul the rules for indefinite leave to remain (ILR). These include increasing the time someone must live in the UK to be eligible for ILR from five years to ten.