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Report suggests Rachel Reeves could be forced to spend £5.1bn if last year’s downward trend continues

Labour has good ideas and years left to change Britain. Why is it acting as if its time is almost up, asks Guardian columnist John Harris

Rate-setters would fuel growth by clarifying policy and bringing rates low enough to encourage investment

Keir Starmer did not deny a rethink of benefit cut to 10 million pensioners blamed for Labour’s electoral losses

Deal that stops short of joining customs union or single market could pay for reversing benefit cuts, party says

Labour members from Leeds West and Pudsey to write letter to chancellor over plans to reduce Pip payments

There was a telling moment at last week’s PMQs. After Keir Starmer declared that Plaid Cymru leader Liz Saville Roberts was talking “rubbish” – she asked if there was any belief that he held for more than a week – Rachel Reeves roared with laughter. But Angela Rayner, sat by…

In its motion opposing the plans, the Leeds West and Pudsey CLP said disabled people ‘are not responsible for the state of the national finances’.

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said ‘youth mobility is not freedom of movement’ ahead of a UK-EU summit in London on Monday.

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested youth mobility would not break Labour’s red lines, ahead of a UK-EU summit in London on Monday

Prime minister Keir Starmer under pressure as focus groups tell government they might not bear a grudge if there is a reversal of the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s cuts