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Editorial: Rachel Reeves’s drive to speed up development is beginning to treat wildlife and the environment as expendable. Voters want homes built, but not at any cost

From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

The Independent looks at the key policies announced in Kemi Badenoch’s conference speech

The party leader will set out a ‘golden rule’ that half of money saved from cuts must be put towards driving down the deficit.

Kemi Badenoch will try to maximise Labour’s problems on the economy to win back public support

Jenrick also dismisses any speculation about his leadership ambitions, telling his audience Kemi Badenoch will lead the Tories into the next election

Under the slogan “#ChangeLDP”, Japan’s long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has elected Sanae Takaichi as its new leader. Pending a vote in the Diet’s lower house later this month, she is poised to become Japan’s next prime minister — and the first woman ever to hold the post.

Shadow chancellor will use his Tory conference speech to set plans to cut welfare spending, foreign aid and the Civil Service if his party wins the next election

RUSSELL Findlay has claimed the SNP’s “biggest failure is the economy” – mentioning the pro-independence party 23 times in his speech to the…

Sir John Curtice says the Conservative leader managed to make no impression on much of the public

Ed Miliband’s move to bring forward ban is gambit to stop would-be Reform voters from backing Nigel Farage’s pro-fracking party