Keir Starmer will resign as leader of the Labour Party and prime minister, he has announced in a speech outside No 10.

How did it all go so wrong for Keir Starmer? Over the following hours, days and weeks, Starmer’s supporters will make the ...

Quinn Slobodian is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. The richest man in the world chose a strange ...

It comes after the party lost its deposit in Makerfield By Megan Kenyon Tomorrow, the Green Party’s leader, Zack Polanski will unveil the party’s candidate for the Manchester mayoral by-election – ...

The fixation on who will be PM obscures the deeper forces shaping Britain’s finances – and the cost of addressing them By Dominic Caddick Judging by much of the coverage of the Makerfield by-election, ...

Team Burnham is hoping Keir Starmer will “come to his senses” By Ailbhe Rea Andy Burnham has won the Makerfield by-election, comfortably and decisively. So what happens now? Team Burnham is hoping ...

If Burnham becomes prime minister, he will have to reconcile his promise to voters with the expectations of investors By Will Dunn As far as the bond market is concerned, Andy Burnham chose a good day ...

A year-long investigation into medical transition treatment at WellBN found “wholly inadequate” care By Hannah Barnes Children as young as 12 have been prescribed masculinising and feminising hormones ...

The Manchester mayor’s comments triggered a response from No 10 By Ethan Croft The subtext of the Makerfield by-election became text in Thursday night’s Question Time special as Andy Burnham confirmed ...

Donald John Trump, born in 1946, is president of the United States, after beating Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. His previous term in office was from 2017 to 2021. His first presidency was marked ...

The former shadow chancellor is now the only leading Corbynite with the Labour whip. Can he save the party’s left from irrelevance? By George Eaton In the Labour left’s wilderness years, it was John ...

The arrogant economic prophecies of the late 1990s have turned to ashes. By Rajan Menon Does anyone remember the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman’s bestseller, The Lexus and the Olive Tree? Or ...