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For a distinctly unremarkable man Keir Starmer has had quite a remarkable week. First, he managed to pull off that never-seen-before trick of achieving a humiliating victory in Parliament on Tuesday.
The weekly session in which the British prime minister is questioned by lawmakers in Parliament can be an ordeal for the ...
After a week in which the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) was split over welfare reforms, and a new party was formed by ...
A reader says Rachel Reeves’ tears would be understandable if they were about Labour rebels wrecking her work to reform the benefits system ...
Testing Leadership
In a moment that briefly pierced the steely façade of British parliamentary politics, Chancellor Rachel Reeves was seen ...
The images, video and questions will follow her for the rest of her life. That tear that trickled down the side of her face, the puffy eyes, her hunched back, the tongue rolling around her mouth, the ...
The reasons for Reeves’s distress remain shrouded in mystery: she looked strained but smiled gamely and admitted that she ...
Of course I am aware that Rachel Reeves is no ordinary woman and this is no ordinary workplace – but the reaction was wildly ...
Labour politicians across the North East have hailed a year of progress after their landslide election victory a year ago ...
Rachel Reeves said she was “clearly” upset during her appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) but ­insisted she was “cracking on with the job”. The chancellor and Keir Starmer shared a hug, ...
Frances Tiafoe was accused of abusing the ATP’s bathroom break rules during his Wimbledon defeat to Cameron Norrie. Great Britain’s Norrie came through an entertaining second-round match against ...