A new poll suggests voters prefer Nigel Farage to Sir Keir Starmer in every respect with one key exception. While the Reform UK leader is seen as being more in touch with ordinary people than the Prime Minister,

Andrew Neil tore apart Sir Keir Starmer over his pledge to smash people smuggling gangs behind small boats. The veteran broadcaster asked the Prime Minister how many have been charged and convicted during his year in power.

By our own metrics, the government is not thriving. Waiting times at emergency ( A&E) wards may be falling, but at a glacial pace. The number of migrants crossing in small boats has risen by 38% over the past year. Housebuilding is moribund and crime incidents, although relatively low, have increased by 10%.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has addressed why he didn’t publicly back Chancellor Rachel Reeves in the Commons on Wednesday.

Sir Keir Starmer has given his full support to Chancellor Rachel Reeves after she was seen crying during Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday. Ms Reeves’s visibly tearful appearance in the Commons came amid speculation that her job was at risk after the Government’s U-turn on welfare cuts put an almost £5 billion hole in her spending plans.

And on July 1st Sir Keir Starmer was humiliated by a huge rebellion, as Labour MPs gutted a bill to cut sickness and disability benefits. In Parliament the next day his chancellor wept and yields ...

Sir Keir Starmer is coming under mounting pressure from within his own Cabinet to scrap the two-child benefit cap, despite Treasury warnings over a lack of funding to ditch the policy.

How Angela Rayner has become the most influential figure in Starmer’s government – for now - NEWS ANALYSIS: The Independent's Political Editor David Maddox says that despite the clash with Unite, the