The Prime Minister's advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right, argues Neal Lawson
      
  Keir Starmer
The Prime Minister's 'unutterably depressing' decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
      
  Starmer had pledged to end the “outrageous way government departments refuse freedom of information requests”.
      
  Labour's embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer's former adviser Simon Fletcher
      
  Ranking crimes by nationality risks stoking a repeat of last summer's racist riots, argues Minnie Rahman, who urges ministers to focus on fairness and rehabilitation instead
      
  Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
      
  Cutting disability benefits will do nothing but heighten the scapegoating of disabled people once again – how can a Labour Government introduce such a punitive measure? Penny Pepper asks
      
  The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson
      
  The 'sheer hypocrisy' of the UK’s right-wing media in celebrating Trump’s 'free speech ultimatum'
      
  The Prime Minister previously watered down his commitment to "abolish" Parliament's unelected second chamber