The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the deputy prime minister’s influence ...

Deal with Macron to end small boat crossings won't work, according to the officials charged with implementing it ...

For the sake of Sir Keir Starmer’s mental health, I hope he’s avoiding media assessments of his first year in office.

Keir Starmer is not in the same place Tony Blair was during his own backbench rebellion in 1997.

Keir Starmer's Deep Unpopularity With Voters Laid Bare In 1 Stunning Graphic The PM is 88 points behind where Tony Blair was at the same point of his time in office. By Kevin Schofield ...

Sir Keir Starmer has had a rocky start in his first year as Prime ... with more than 400 MPs on July 4 last year – clinching a majority just short of Tony Blair’s landslide in 1997. A year later, ...

It’s the spinelessness of it all that gets me. We knew Keir Starmer was weak. We knew it when he recorded a leadership pitch in 2020 that could have been directed by Ken Loach – only to emerge as some ...

Starmer has voted in the Commons only seven times in his first year, they complain (BBC research found that even Tony Blair voted 13 times and Boris Johnson did 57 times); he doesn’t talk to MPs ...

Sir Keir Starmer was hoping to break the curse of the cabinet away day as he summoned his ministers to Chequers for the ...

The Deputy Prime Minister should be deployed as a John Prescott figure to connect with the party, Labour MPs say ...

Starmer entered No 10 triumphant after the general election. But in a year full of U-turns, Reform and Labour rebellion, the road ahead does not… ...