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The move piles pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to do the same for veteran MP Diane Abbott

Well, that was unexpected. Natalie Elphicke, until a few hours ago the Conservative MP for Dover, has defected to the Labour Party. In a bid to amp up the drama, the whole thing happened moments before Prime Minister's Questions, as Elphicke crossed the floor to take her seat behind Keir Starmer on…

As an MP and psychiatrist, I see the burden that a service near breaking point takes on patients, their families and healthcare colleagues, writes Dan Poulter

Ex-health minister Dan Poulter, who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’

We seek peace in Gaza, Ukraine, Yemen, Sudan, the DRC and elsewhere, but we’re ignored. History will damn the warmongers, says Jeremy Corbyn, former leader of the Labour party

Health Secretary Victoria Atkins said the Home Office was ‘ready to go’ in implementing the scheme.

It’s hard not to admire Angela Rayner. Her backstory is almost cinematic – bullied kid growing up poor in Stockport, Manchester, told she would never amount to anything, illiterate mentally ill mother who she cared for from the age of ten. Pregnant at 16, deputy leader of the Labour Party…

Letters: Andrew Copson of Humanists UK, Zaki Cooper, David Tutssel and David Cragg-James respond to an editorial about the party and faith communities

UK opposition parties demand PM Sunak justify arms trading with Israel after IDF strike. SNP, Labour, and Liberal Democrats call for action.