Welsh Labour have retracted social media posts after a formal legal letter was issued by Reform UK. The posts implied Reform’s Caerphilly candidate, Llŷr Powell, had links to Vladimir Putin – an accusation the party firmly denies. They also referred to bribes taken by a former Reform leader. Newyddion S4C has been told the letter...
Kate WhannelPolitical reporter PA Media Newly-elected Green Party leader Zack Polanski will accuse Labour of being “handmaidens” to Reform UK when he addresses his party’s autumn conference later today. Polanski will say that immigration is not the “real threat” to high streets, homes and the NHS – claiming that comes from austerity and an economic...
On the ground at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool.
Henry Zeffman on the challenge facing Keir Starmer
Rival deputy leadership candidates Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell went head-to-head in a hustings at the very end of the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Education Secretary Phillipson and former Commons Leader Powell both wore dark blue dresses as they sat to one side of the giant stage, with a large podium standing empty in...
The Labour government is planning to pass a new law that would ban fracking for shale gas permanently in England, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has announced. At Labour’s conference, Miliband said he wanted to legislate at the earliest opportunity and launch a national campaign against fracking in the meantime. Fracking is currently only limited by...
The audience at Labour conference applaud the health secretary after he praises his former cabinet colleague.
Sir Keir Starmer said Britain was at a “fork in the road” in his speech to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Tuesday. The prime minister took aim at Nigel Farage’s Reform UK, asking: “Do they love our country?” The wide-ranging speech also touched on education, immigration, and US President Donald Trump’s new Gaza...
Brian WheelerPolitical reporter Starmer questions if Reform wants to serve “our beautiful, tolerant, diverse country” Sir Keir Starmer has launched an all-out attack on Nigel Farage’s “politics of grievance”, claiming the Reform UK leader did not believe in Britain. The prime minister sought to contrast his vision of a “tolerant, decent, respectful Britain” with what...
Labour delegates at the party’s conference in Liverpool have backed a motion urging the government to “employ all means reasonably available to it to prevent the commission of a genocide in Gaza”. The non-binding motion also called for a full suspension of the arms trade with Israel. Another motion called on the government to suspend...