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Exclusive: Leading barrister says victims of rape ‘deserve a legal system that stands with them, not against them’

Sir Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak sold rival messages in buildup to election next year

Protest at start of Keir Starmer’s address to Labour delegates follows long tradition of dissenters upstaging politicians

To win a mandate for meaningful change, the Labour leader knows he must cut through deep layers of apathy and cynicism, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

In the run-up to the 1997 General Election, Roy Jenkins famously compared an ever-cautious Tony Blair to a man “carrying a priceless Ming vase across a highly polished floor.” More than a quarter of a century on, the same line has been thrown repeatedly at Sir Keir Starmer. But today,…

U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is delivering what amounts to a public job interview for the post of prime minister

Labour’s conference in Liverpool, almost certainly its last such annual gathering before the general election, has been anchored by Sir Keir Starmer’s promise today of a “decade of national renewal”. Inevitably, however, the domestic policy pledges made by the Labour leader and his colleagues have been overshadowed by the horrendous…

New Labour mastermind says channel is ‘undoing’ the Tory party. ‘And very timely it is too’

The opposition leader seems to think that Labour needs to water down policies on tax and the climate crisis, writes former Labour cabinet minister Clare Short

From clean energy to affordable housing, Rachel Reeves says she has a plan to pay for it all, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

With Labour heading into election year ahead in the polls, who are the individuals funding its upcoming campaign?