The official published version of Rachel Reeves's Spring Statement this year contains a proud pledge: 'We promised change at the election.' ...

Lord Chris Smith has said he would never have dreamed as an 18-year-old arriving to study at the University of Cambridge that ...

Starmer facing fresh Labour backlash over international aid cuts - Aid allocations set to be announced more than a year after the prime minister said the budget would be reduced from 0.5% of GDP to 0.

Smith, 74, who served as culture secretary in Sir Tony Blair’s government, said the administration’s target of 50 per cent of ...

Phil Woolas, who has died from brain cancer aged 66, was a hard-line immigration minister under Gordon Brown, who in 2010 had the distinction – so far unique – of being stripped of his seat by an ...

That’s why I announced our call for a new Magna Carta for modern Britain. A written constitution – something our party has ...

Ed Davey speech: Save Britain with nuclear missiles and new Magna Carta Full text of Ed Davey’s speech to Liberal Democrat Conference in York today: Thank you friends. What a wonderful weekend it’s ...

English Tourism Week’, which runs until 23 March, kicked off with a jaunty reception in Downing Street. Various ‘celebratory’ ...

Ed Davey’s speech to Conference yesterday is already proving controversial within the party. His announcement that we are now ...

Here is the full text of Ed Davey’s speech to Liberal Democrat Federal Spring Conference in York. More about the nuclear deterrent policy is on the party website and in coverage from The Guardian.

Beware a prime minister in a hurry to make a mark in history - COMMENT: As Keir Starmer becomes the 44th-longest-serving ...