Political Correspondent Peter Spencer reports on Rachel Reeves weeping at Prime Minister’s Questions & a bad week for Labour.

To do that he’d need our permission. Meaning Keir Starmer wouldn’t be able to just sit on the sidelines. He’d have no choice but to either tell the Orange Man to do one, and thus risk wrecking the ...

The government’s talk of a ‘decade of renewal’ might sound like spin, but after looking for so long like she’s just swallowed a wasp, Ms Reeves does seem to be discovering the lost art of actually ...

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Problem is, there’s not enough to go round. No surprise in itself, but the lamentable extent of the shortfall is becoming increasingly apparent. And pleas for more are ...

Balancing the Books Karl Marx’s suggestion that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce, doesn’t seem quite right, because this summer’s threatened wave of strikes doesn’t feel ...

putin1984 Again With the world’s military and economic apparatus feeling fragile in Donald Trump’s hands, the Prime Minister is clearly channelling Winston Churchill’s famous wartime slogan. As our ...

Any minute now a convicted criminal who also stands accused of fostering insurrection will become the most powerful person in the world. The one thing we do know about him is that we don’t know, ever, ...

It’s the same story at home and abroad – all about how you tell ’em. As the crisis in the Middle East ratchets maybe up or maybe down with the killing of the Hamas leader, the Prime Minister’s ...

For everyone, it seems, not least the Prime Minister. After Washington, for high-stakes but as yet unresolved soul-searching about letting Ukraine penetrate Russia with western long-range missiles, ...

In the week that saw students mostly but far from all whooping for joy over their A-level results, it’s worth asking how well our new government’s been performing in its first few weeks. Our Political ...

The plan is working. That’s Downing Street’s new mantra, as it clasps at the straw of slightly better news on the economy, at long last. Problem being, as our Political Correspondent Peter Spencer ...

In the war of the words Rishi Sunak’s been on a winning streak lately. Rwanda bill passed, defence spending up, and last week’s sick-note culture clampdown garnering headlines. Tick tick tick then.