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As President of the Board of Trade in the 1990s, Michael Heseltine famously declared his intention to intervene "before breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner" to support British business. And this is not a bad description of today's King's Speech, the first under a Labour government for 14 years (technically, the first…

The king’s speech has been delivered, marking the state opening of parliament (technically, this was the first king’s speech with a Labour government in 74 years). The speech was written by Keir Starmer’s government, not the king, and lays out the government’s agenda for the coming year. The Conversation’s academic…

LABOUR have set out their political agenda for the coming months and it is a weighty beast.

A RAFT of new MPs have arrived in Parliament under a loose banner which threatens the Labour Party in its heartlands.

PM says he wants to ‘mark the occasion’ if England win final on Sunday but stops short of confirming extra day off

Questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

Britain finally has a chance to reject the Sunak government’s claim that Israel enjoys impunity in Gaza, says Geoffrey Robertson KC

Who, apart from the very wealthy, could bring themselves to go to university these days? Three years of mostly less-than adequate teaching, a lot of it on Zoom, an uncertain at best transition into the workplace and a whacking great loan that you’ll spend the next 40 years repaying isn’t…

Labour’s landslide victory gave hope to progressives worldwide but may be as much practical as ideological

Labour’s new brood includes an economist whose family fled from Liberia, Westminster insiders and a former soldier

ON a cloudy day in June on the outskirts of Edinburgh, close to the airport, the SNP launched its election manifesto.