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Chancellor understood to be looking at fifth extension of scheme to support people at risk of destitution

In today’s newsletter: After his honeymoon period, Keir Starmer tries to sell hard choices to voters

Could a trimmer figure, the quick-fix way, and new hairdo be enough to get the party vote?

BORIS Johnson is facing criticism for his latest column in the Daily Mail, in which he claims Britain is now “twinned with Orwell’s 1984”...

No adviser would say Keir Starmer should have gone away during the riots but cancelling breaks can take a toll

For all the initial noise against low-traffic neighbourhoods, most people like them and they can benefit the public purse

The Conservative leadership contest is something of a sideshow to the meaningful politics of government. Whoever wins will inherit a depleted party reeling from arguably its worst ever election defeat. It comprises only 121 MPs, many now in marginal seats (77 are defending majorities where just a 5% swing would…

Britain has a pension problem. Despite having one of the biggest and most sophisticated financial centres of the world in London, the country’s pension industry does not fall into the same category.

There is no comparison between Labour’s transparent union funding and murky donations to the Tories – but stopping it all would be the best way to clean up politics, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee