MPs say the "unsustainable" rise in spending must be tackled but many Labour Party backbenchers fear changes will not work.

Labour has suffered a surprise by-election defeat in west London amid ongoing anger over council tax increases. Independent Theo Dennison, who previously worked for George Galloway’s parliamentary office, won the Syon and Brentford Lock seat on Hounslow Council by just 12 votes following the poll on Thursday.

There's one area in particular in which the Labour Party appears totally unconvincing, because its MPs themselves are unconvinced.

MP Dawn Butler has launched a new Parliamentary Black Caucus to tackle racial inequality as she says the UK is in a "scary place" and "difficult conversations" need to be had

About 10,000 members of the Labour Party, LP, have decamped to the African Democratic Congress, ADC, in Kaduna State. The state chairman of ADC, Alhaji

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is now preparing billions of pounds worth of welfare and departmental spending cuts ahead of the Spring Statement. The once-vaunted financial buffer of £10billion has evaporated, and Labour now faces the stark reality that urgent action is needed to shake-up Britain's broken welfare system. Frankly, it’s about time.

"You might imagine that the hero of a book about how Keir Starmer led the Labour Party from electoral disaster to Downing Street would be, you know, Keir Starmer," said Robert Shrimsley in the Financial Times.

The evidence suggests traditional parties that ape the populist radical right’s policies risk boosting their rivals instead of reclaiming voters.

Labour Party leader Chris Hipkins has used his state of the nation speech in Auckland today to announce a reshuffle of his caucus, which he says puts a high focus on the economy.

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