new video loaded: The Man Expanding Trump’s Presidential Powers Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress’s budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration’s agenda. By Coral Davenport, Melanie Bencosme, Stephanie Swart, Laura Bult, June Kim and Ray Whitehouse...
It is just 14 months since the general election. Not yet 500 days. Labour has a working majority of 161. But here on the banks of the Mersey, it really doesn’t feel like that. I am reminded of Conservative conferences of old, where a circus would accompany Boris Johnson from the railway station to each...
Becky MortonPolitical reporter PA Media Young people who have been out of a job or education for 18 months will be offered a guaranteed paid work placement, Rachel Reeves is set to announce. Those who do not to take up the offer could face being stripped of their benefits. In her speech to Labour’s annual...
Anas Sarwar said Scottish Labour represented ambition and a change in direction The Scottish Labour leader has accused the SNP Scottish government of being “knackered and out of touch” as he addressed Labour’s UK conference. Anas Sarwar also criticised the “gutter politics and bile” of Reform, describing its leader Nigel Farage as a “poisonous little...
Getty Images Eluned Morgan warns voters not to “gamble” on Reform’s “divisive noise” or Plaid’s “fantasy politics” Labour is facing a “hell of a fight” against the “divisive nationalism” of Plaid Cymru and Reform, Wales’ first minister has told the party’s Autumn conference. Eluned Morgan accused her political opponents in the May Senedd election of...
A Labour peer has repeated his call to “abolish the Treasury”, and says the government should shift its focus to industrial revival to radically reshape the British economy. Maurice Glasman, the founder of the Blue Labour campaign, has said he and Blue Labour supporters needed to intensify their calls for “economic radicalism”. Speaking at a...
Joshua NevettPolitical reporter PA Media Migrants will have to prove they are contributing to society to earn the right to remain in the UK, the home secretary is set to announce. In her Labour conference speech, Shabana Mahmood will outline a series of new conditions migrants have to meet to qualify for indefinite leave to...
Police have made a number of arrests at a protest in support of Palestine Action outside the Labour party conference centre in Liverpool. A group of around fifty people sat on the grass outside ACC Liverpool holding handwritten placards reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action”. Merseyside Police said officers “are in the process...
Andy Burnham has warned against “underestimating the peril the party is in” at a fringe meeting at the Labour party conference. The mayor of Greater Manchester continued his criticism of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership at events at the Liverpool conference, telling audiences he would not shy away from debate on Labour’s future. Despite a backlash...
Sir Keir Starmer was repeatedly pressed on whether VAT could be increased in the forthcoming Budget. The prime minister was asked at least five times by the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg if he would rule out raising VAT, with Chancellor Rachel Reeves expected to have to put up taxes or cut spending in November to meet...