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Have your say: Party conference season has sparked debate among Independent readers

The campus will also establish a scholarship programme for 20 students each year to nurture the ‘next generation of thought leaders’.

To win a mandate for meaningful change, the Labour leader knows he must cut through deep layers of apathy and cynicism, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

In the run-up to the 1997 General Election, Roy Jenkins famously compared an ever-cautious Tony Blair to a man “carrying a priceless Ming vase across a highly polished floor.” More than a quarter of a century on, the same line has been thrown repeatedly at Sir Keir Starmer. But today,…

U.K. Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is delivering what amounts to a public job interview for the post of prime minister

Labour’s conference in Liverpool, almost certainly its last such annual gathering before the general election, has been anchored by Sir Keir Starmer’s promise today of a “decade of national renewal”. Inevitably, however, the domestic policy pledges made by the Labour leader and his colleagues have been overshadowed by the horrendous…

New Labour mastermind says channel is ‘undoing’ the Tory party. ‘And very timely it is too’

The opposition leader seems to think that Labour needs to water down policies on tax and the climate crisis, writes former Labour cabinet minister Clare Short

From clean energy to affordable housing, Rachel Reeves says she has a plan to pay for it all, says the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee