Andy Burnham’s early policy and communications blitz – eating pork scratchings and climbing ladders on TikTok, visiting the Barrow shipyard and Dover coastguard, promising cheaper buses and pubs – ...

Zack Polanski’s latest appearance on Newsnight had been planned for weeks before he walked through the doors of New Broadcasting House on 28 July. But when the day finally came, the Green Party leader ...

The New Statesman can exclusively reveal the Chancellor’s finalised top political team By Ailbhe Rea The new Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey has finalised the appointments to his top political ...

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We created the nuclear monster. We must warn against it now New Statesman ...

Uniting capital and labour is easier in rhetoric than in government By Vladimir Bortun After weeks of growing scrutiny over the £5m gift received from the Thailand-based billionaire Christopher ...

Zack Polanski’s party will take aim at her immigration reforms should she be appointed chancellor By Megan Kenyon The Green Party plans to accuse Shabana Mahmood of “fiscal constraint and economic ...