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.

If you can work, if you can pay tax, if you can serve in your armed forces, then you ought to be able to vote.” Those were the words of Sir Keir Starmer last May making the case for 16 and 17-year-olds to be able to vote in UK general elections.

The Labour Party has reacted to the demise of Dr Doyin Okupe, a renowned politician and former Director-General of the party’s Presidential Campaign for the 2023 election.Okupe, 72, died after battling a prolonged illness suspected to be cancer.

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.

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

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

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

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.

"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.