Downing Street’s top civil servant ‘on brink of being ousted’

The latest speculation around Chris Wormald’s position comes after the departure of a string of senior government officials ...
New StatesmanOpinion

How the China spy scandal engulfed the government

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a ...
The New York Times

U.K. Conservatives Yearn for Thatcher and Wonder About Their Future

The once dominant British political party has been outflanked by Reform, a right-wing populist rival. At the Tory annual conference, attendance was sparse. By Mark Landler Reporting from Manchester, ...
The Conversation

Reform and Green party members the most ideologically removed from the average voter

Paul Whiteley has received funding from the British Academy and the ESRC. Against the backdrop of a fragmenting political system, the 2025 party conference season in the UK has been an unusual one.
AOL

Four Labour councillors resign from party

Four councillors from Birmingham have resigned their memberships from the Labour Party, citing concerns about its leadership both locally and nationally. A joint statement from councillors Amar Khan, ...
The New York Times

Leader of U.K. Conservatives Vows to Deport 150,000 People a Year

Kemi Badenoch, whose party is sinking in polls, outlined plans resembling Trump policies against those accused of being in the United States illegally. By Stephen Castle Reporting from London ...
The Atlantic

How Not to Get a Progressive Party off the Ground

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In early September, Zarah Sultana made a bold announcement. “Labour is dead,” the 31-year-old socialist member of Parliament told a crowd of hundreds gathered in ...
The New York Times

Synagogue Attack Increases Pressure on Starmer in the U.K.

The prime minister vowed to rid the Labour Party of antisemitism. But a competing political reality, activist anger over the war in Gaza, has complicated that effort. By Michael D. Shear Reporting ...
The Economist

Labour has decided to stop punching its own voters

Holding a Palestine flag above his head, a bald, bearded protester in a suit began shouting at Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, as she spoke at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool. “After two years ...
The Conversation

Labour conference: Starmer takes aim at political opponents but ties his own future to Reform

Alex Prior does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
World Socialist Web Site

Starmer and the Labour Party roll in the nationalist gutter

It has become impossible to picture Prime Minister Keir Starmer without a Union Flag backdrop. But this week’s Labour conference in Liverpool took the party’s jingoism to a new and repulsive level.