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These are anxiety-inducing days. The pound tanking, interest rates rising, mortgage payments set to increase — and that’s just this week’s bad news. Then there’s the worries we all have that only our nearest and dearest will usually know about. In my case, I wake up every morning unsure if…

Angela Rayner invites activists to imagine meeting under a Labour government, and insiders say gathering was big financial success

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer said it was time for a ‘serious prime minister’.

MP Rupa Huq was suspended from Labour for 'ill-judged' comments to a conference fringe event, where she said Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng was 'superficially' black

‘She will be dealt with’, says Labour leader – but insists any reinstatement would not be up to him

Ms Huq was suspended from the Labour party after her remarks that the Chancellor is ‘superficially’ black appeared online.

The Labour leader said he hoped the party was more like the one led by Sir Tony Blair than Jeremy Corbyn.

Sir Keir Starmer has branded comments made by a Labour MP about the Chancellor being "superficially black” as racist.

Labour leader says his own mortgage payments have gone up by ‘few hundred pounds’ a month

MP Rupa Huq has now offered a 'wholehearted' apology for the 'ill-judged' remarks

An opposition Labour lawmaker was suspended from the party on Tuesday after being accused of making racist comments about British finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng, with a party spokesperson saying it would call on her to apologise.