The Latest Breaking News from Rochdale

Voters in the northern English town of Rochdale go to the polls Thursday in a by-election that has roiled the Labour Party with a new anti-Semitism controversy. Britain’s main opposition party was the clear favourite until its candidate was disowned for espousing conspiracy theories about Israel. The row recalls the…

Lee Anderson and Liz Truss offer Labour leader rich pickings but under-fire Speaker struggles to keep order

Two former Labour MPs are back to haunt the party in what has been called ‘the most radioactive byelection in living memory’

Port Talbot, Rochdale, Wick, Croydon and Kettering – we continue our series on places the guidebook writers skip

Letters: Rochdalian Tricia Ayrton remembers the town’s late MP Tony Lloyd, while Molly Berry suggests a candidate the town could vote for. Plus letters from David Vaughan, Donald Entwistle and Dr John Puntis

The double whammy of byelection humiliations for the Tories matters more than Labour’s horror show in Rochdale

We can tell just how far women have come by examining the 11 candidates

Despite victory in two Conservative safe seats, a Labour government is not a foregone conclusion, say party hawks

After what was widely acknowledged to be one of the worst weeks of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership — in which Labour once again became embroiled in antisemitism and the leader himself was accused of indecision over Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali — the mood has suddenly switched.