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Opinion: Reeves’ Budget Shows Labour’s Backbenchers Are Calling the Shots

Ash Sarkar

After MPs had the whip suspended for rebelling on the two-child benefit cap last year, scrapping it is now government policy. And backbenchers are set to force more concessions, writes Ash Sarkar.

Opinion: The Chancellor’s New Revenue Plans Are a Boon to the Wealthiest

Steven Methven

Freezing income tax bands leaves the wealthiest unaffected, while Rachel Reeves’ deference to the bond markets is another gift to the rich, writes Steven Methven.

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Opinion: Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

In September, the Scottish government passed a law limiting how much landlords can raise rents. Labour’s renters’ rights bill is a joke by comparison, writes Gordon Maloney.

ACFM: Do We Still Need Political Parties?

Why do they call them parties if they aren't any fun? ACFM investigates.

Feature: How Can Labour Win Over the Flag Protesters? We Asked Them

Rivkah Brown

Out of work, unable to get an NHS appointment and furiously angry at migrants and the government – has Keir Starmer ever spoken to the people he’s trying to win from Nigel Farage? Rivkah Brown did, outside Labour conference in Liverpool.

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Report: Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda

Rivkah Brown

Palestine Action supporters, anti-genocide marchers and pro-Palestine celebrities have disrupted the start of Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool, which the party had hoped would be about anything but Gaza. Rivkah Brown reports.

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Feature: Meet the Socialist Hoping to Lead Britain’s Biggest Trade Union

Polly Smythe

Andrea Egan wants to turn the 1.3 million-member Unison from a creaking bureaucracy to a vehicle for worker power. Polly Smythe meets her.

Opinion: The Mainstream Media Mafia Has Greased Britain’s Slide Towards Fascism

Phil McDuff

Any analysis of the political situation in the UK that does not account for the media is so incomplete as to be useless, argues Phil McDuff.

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Opinion: Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face

Joe Guinan

Liberals and lobby journalists jubilated last year when the grownups were finally put back in charge. Now, Starmer’s future and indeed Labour’s seem as certain as an iceberg lettuce, writes Joe Guinan.

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Report: Here’s All the Government Handouts Landlords Get

Rivkah Brown

News that the chancellor may force landlords to pay national insurance – why don't they already? – got our reporter Rivkah Brown wondering: what other cushy treatment are landlords getting?

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Analysis: Angela Rayner Was Labour’s Designated Defender of Workers’ Rights. Now She’s Gone, Big Business Is Swooping In

Polly Smythe

Starmer’s recent reshuffle saw two champions of Labour’s flagship workers’ rights legislation leave the frontbench, creating a vacuum that businesses are eagerly filling. Polly Smythe surveys an uneasy landscape from the Trade Union Congress's annual meeting.

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Feature: ‘I Live in Constant Fear’: Delivery Couriers Fight for Survival Amid Labour’s Immigration Blitz

Polly Smythe

Food delivery couriers are facing increased attacks from the rightwing press, far-right thugs and now, the Labour government. Polly Smythe reports.

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Report: Reform Voters Prefer Corbyn to Starmer on Almost Every Metric, New Polling Shows

Rivkah Brown

Reform voters think the new party co-founder is more intelligent, trustworthy, hard-working and principled than the prime minister, suggesting Starmer’s attempts to woo the right aren’t working. Rivkah Brown reports.

Feature: The Government Has Been Expanding the Definition of Terrorism for Years. Here’s How

The recent proscription of Palestine Action has blindsided many who thought terrorism meant suicide bombers and knife attackers. In fact, counter-terror legislation has been broadening for decades, write Rivkah Brown and Simon Childs.

Zarah Sultana stands with former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn as they prepare to address activists at a 'Kill the Bill' protest in Parliament Square, London, April 2021. David Cliff/NurPhoto/Reuters

Analysis: A Sultana-Corbyn New Left Party Will Need All the Friends It Can Get

Steven Methven

Zarah Sultana’s shock announcement that she’s quitting Labour to co-lead a new party with Jeremy Corbyn already has the usual media suspects sharpening their knives, Steven Methven writes.

Hundreds of demonstrators, many disabled, gathered to protest against the government’s proposed cuts to the welfare spending bill which will see Personal Independence Payments (PIP) reduced for disabled benefit claimants, March 2025. Lab Ky Mo/SOPA Images/Reuters Connect

Opinion: The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves

Rick Burgess

Despite concessions, the welfare bill still means cuts and greater state intrusion into disabled people’s lives, writes the Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People’s Rick Burgess.

A portrait of Zack Polanski by Magdalena Siwicka

Report: Exclusive: Green Party Membership Surges Following Polanski’s Leadership Bid, Leaked Data Suggests

Adam Ramsay

The Green party has grown by at least 8% to 65,000 members since ‘eco-populist’ Zack Polanski announced his candidacy in early May, according to data from regions representing over a third of the party. Adam Ramsay reports.

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Opinion: Britain Can Have Its Own Mamdani. First It Must Move on From Corbyn

James Meadway

The freshly minted Democratic candidate for New York City mayor is patently exceptional. He’s also perfected a formula that the UK can replicate, but only if it lays history to rest, writes James Meadway.

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Opinion: Reeves’ Budget Shows Labour’s Backbenchers Are Calling the Shots

Ash Sarkar

Opinion: The Chancellor’s New Revenue Plans Are a Boon to the Wealthiest

Steven Methven

Opinion: Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

Report: Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda

Rivkah Brown

Feature: Meet the Socialist Hoping to Lead Britain’s Biggest Trade Union

Polly Smythe

Opinion: The Mainstream Media Mafia Has Greased Britain’s Slide Towards Fascism

Phil McDuff

Opinion: Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face

Joe Guinan

Report: Here’s All the Government Handouts Landlords Get

Rivkah Brown

Analysis: Angela Rayner Was Labour’s Designated Defender of Workers’ Rights. Now She’s Gone, Big Business Is Swooping In

Polly Smythe

Feature: ‘I Live in Constant Fear’: Delivery Couriers Fight for Survival Amid Labour’s Immigration Blitz

Polly Smythe

Report: Reform Voters Prefer Corbyn to Starmer on Almost Every Metric, New Polling Shows

Rivkah Brown

Feature: The Government Has Been Expanding the Definition of Terrorism for Years. Here’s How

Rivkah Brown & Simon Childs

Analysis: A Sultana-Corbyn New Left Party Will Need All the Friends It Can Get

Steven Methven

Opinion: The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves

Rick Burgess

Report: Exclusive: Green Party Membership Surges Following Polanski’s Leadership Bid, Leaked Data Suggests

Adam Ramsay

Opinion: Britain Can Have Its Own Mamdani. First It Must Move on From Corbyn

James Meadway

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Tag: Labour Party

Opinion: Reeves’ Budget Shows Labour’s Backbenchers Are Calling the Shots

Ash Sarkar

Opinion: The Chancellor’s New Revenue Plans Are a Boon to the Wealthiest

Steven Methven

Opinion: Scotland’s New Rent Controls Put Starmer’s Measly Reforms to Shame

Gordon Maloney

ACFM: Do We Still Need Political Parties?

Feature: How Can Labour Win Over the Flag Protesters? We Asked Them

Rivkah Brown

Report: Labour Is Struggling to Keep Palestine Off Its Conference Agenda

Rivkah Brown

Feature: Meet the Socialist Hoping to Lead Britain’s Biggest Trade Union

Polly Smythe

Opinion: The Mainstream Media Mafia Has Greased Britain’s Slide Towards Fascism

Phil McDuff

Opinion: Arrogant and Inept, Keir Starmer’s Hubris Is Blowing Up in His Face

Joe Guinan

Report: Here’s All the Government Handouts Landlords Get

Rivkah Brown

Analysis: Angela Rayner Was Labour’s Designated Defender of Workers’ Rights. Now She’s Gone, Big Business Is Swooping In

Polly Smythe

Feature: ‘I Live in Constant Fear’: Delivery Couriers Fight for Survival Amid Labour’s Immigration Blitz

Polly Smythe

Report: Reform Voters Prefer Corbyn to Starmer on Almost Every Metric, New Polling Shows

Rivkah Brown

Feature: The Government Has Been Expanding the Definition of Terrorism for Years. Here’s How

Rivkah Brown & Simon Childs

Analysis: A Sultana-Corbyn New Left Party Will Need All the Friends It Can Get

Steven Methven

Opinion: The Welfare Bill Is a Patronising Moral Crusade to Save Disabled People From Ourselves

Rick Burgess

Report: Exclusive: Green Party Membership Surges Following Polanski’s Leadership Bid, Leaked Data Suggests

Adam Ramsay

Opinion: Britain Can Have Its Own Mamdani. First It Must Move on From Corbyn

James Meadway

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