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After Angela Rayner’s resignation last week, the sweeping cabinet reshuffle that followed, and the blundering defenestration of Lord Mandelson mere days later — a restlessness has descended on the PLP (Parliamentary Labour Party). The avoidable errors, the steady stream of strategic miscalculations, are eroding the togetherness and morale of Labour MPs.  The Lord Mandelson scandal... Read more » The post Week-in-Review: Mandelson scandal exposes fragility of Starmer’s standing appeared first on Politics.co.uk.

Lord Mandelson may no longer be US ambassador, but Starmer still has many questions he must answer about this debacle. The post Gavin Williamson: ‘Appointing Mandelson was a grave error – Starmer must be held accountable’ appeared first on Politics.co.uk.

Reform UK contends fracking would fix Britain’s energy crisis. But here’s the truth: it wouldn’t cut your bills, it wouldn’t keep the lights on, and it would cause a lot of pollution. Even in the best-case scenario, fracking would give us just a few years of gas. And guess what? That gas would be sold on global markets at the same price as gas... Read more » The post Bill Esterson: ‘Reform UK’s fracking stance shows it is not serious’ appeared first on Politics.co.uk.

Successful reshuffles have a theme and act as the launchpad for a refreshed government. Keir Starmer’s first major frontbench shake-up may be such an event. Unexpectedly bold and wide-ranging, this was the biggest mid-term reshuffle in nearly 20 years in terms of cabinet-level moves. It could well turn out to be the most significant moment... Read more » The post More growth, fewer boats: Starmer’s reshuffle signals determination to deliver appeared first on Politics.co.uk.

“Summer is definitely over”, exhaled a self-assured sounding Keir Starmer on Monday. The prime minister had just kicked off the new parliamentary term with a relatively wholesale rejig of his Downing Street operation.  A new “chief secretary to the prime minister” post was created; Darren Jones, rated in Downing Street, was poached from the Treasury... Read more » The post Week-in-Review: Starmer has every reason to fear a deputy leadership election appeared first on Politics.co.uk.

I knocked on enough doors as the Labour candidate in Central Suffolk and North Ipswich during last year’s general election to know what topics come up in conversation with voters unprompted. Whether the professional political class like it or not, voters care deeply about immigration and security. Rightly or wrongly, they see our borders as porous... Read more » The post Digital ID can be Labour’s path to smashing the gangs and fixing public services appeared first on Politics.co.uk.

A group of cross-party MPs have set out a “ready to go” blueprint for an independent review of the UK’s first past the post (FPTP) electoral system. The all-party parliamentary group (APPG) for fair elections, the largest of its kind in Westminster, has developed the terms of reference for a “national commission on electoral reform”... Read more » The post Cross-party MPs publish ‘ready to go’ blueprint for electoral reform commission appeared first on Politics.co.uk.

When Nigel Farage stood up this week and outlined his so-called “plan” for immigration, he didn’t sound like a democrat. He sounded like Vladimir Putin. He called for uniformed officers to raid Britain’s villages, towns and cities, disappearing people off our streets for rendition to countries they may have never even set foot in. No... Read more » The post Ben Goldsborough: ‘Nigel Farage and Reform UK would break what makes Britain strong’ appeared first on Politics.co.uk.

Since the 1980s, public trust in government has been in steady decline. The recent findings from the 2025 British Social Attitudes survey revealed that just 12% of the population trusted the government – a stark and troubling figure. Rebuilding that trust is essential, and a key place to start is public procurement. The question is... Read more » The post Baroness Ritchie: ‘To restore trust, government must stop rewarding companies that cause public harm’ appeared first on

Richard Tice calls battery sites a menace. Nigel Farage brands them a con. Reform-led councils have already put the brakes on projects that could store about six gigawatts of clean power, enough to run six million homes. Social media carries those claims far and fast, yet the evidence behind them is wafer thin. A battery storage site is not... Read more » The post Elon Musk is right and Richard Tice is wrong – batteries are the ‘new oil’ appeared first on Politics.co.uk.