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Letters: David Purdy says the party needs to provide moral and intellectual leadership, Andrew Pellow says family life was better under Labour, but Julia Williams says it doesn’t speak to her cares and concerns any more. Plus letters from Clive Tempest, Ed McDonnell and Graham Walsh

Keir Starmer is facing criticism after pledging to slash levels of migration to the UK and “hire Brits first”.

The resignations mean 15 MPs will not stand again in the general election

Parties trade blows over tax cuts as first weekend of general election campaign gets underway

THE director of a Labour think tank who suggested smuggler gangs should be put on a barge and sent to Scotland is reportedly “seeking a…

Editorial: An audit of the government’s flagship policy makes dismal reading. But further devolution alone is not the answer

An ‘empty patch’ in the national story, the Edwardian era – between the death of Queen Victoria and the start of the first world war – has many parallels with today

Editorial: The electorate is not obliged to cast ballots for any party. The public must be convinced by a platform that can fix 14 years of failure

This sorry saga is not encouraging if it is a precedent for how Labour will handle the hard choices that it will face in government