Tag: Labours
Can Delhi deal mask Labour’s problems at home?
Within moments of the briefing with the business secretary beginning, Jonathan Reynolds described it to us as a case study in the government's claim t [...]
Is Welsh Labour’s Eluned Morgan turning away from Keir Starmer?
Is Welsh Labour facing a turning point as we approach a year to go until the Senedd election?Feelings behind the scenes that UK Labour does not get th [...]
The major question thrown up by Labour’s welfare plans
BBCIn the next 24 hours and then over the following fortnight up until the Spring Statement, the government is going to talk a lot about a broken welf [...]
Market trouble threatens Labour’s economic plans
ReutersRachel Reeves may soon have a big decision to makeNothing has been more important to the Labour Party under Sir Keir Starmer than economic cred [...]
Will Labour’s plan to smash the asylum gangs really work?
BBCOn a spring day, Hamid Khoshsiar decided to make the perilous journey into the European Union. He was 31 at the time, an Iranian refugee who had be [...]
Will Labour’s inheritance tax on farms come home to roost?
Getty ImagesThe government is preparing to face the biggest protest yet over its domestic policy agenda since Labour won the general election.It is th [...]
Nigel Farage says Reform Labour’s main challenger at Senedd poll
ReutersNigel Farage believes the 2026 Senedd election is a big opportunity for ReformReform UK leader Nigel Farage has predicted the party will be the [...]
Labour’s past attacks on Trump won’t harm relations, says minister
EPA-EFE/REX/ShutterstockA UK cabinet minister has insisted past attacks on Donald Trump by senior figures in his party will not harm the country's rel [...]
Labour’s big Budget and Kemi Badenoch’s win reset politics
BBC“It’s like week zero,” a government insider suggests. A new Conservative leader today. A whopper of a Budget on Wednesday.Add those two events toge [...]
Farmers “betrayed” by Labour’s £1m inheritance tax relief limit
Farmers across the UK have met the news that inheritance tax relief for farms will be limited to £1m with anger.The National Farmers' Union said it ha [...]
Chess fanatic playing Labour’s first big gambit
Reuters"Serious" and "determined" are words often used to describe Rachel Reeves, the UK's first female chancellor.But colleagues and friends have sug [...]
Would raising employer National Insurance break Labour’s pledge?
In the Budget on 30 October, Chancellor Rachel Reeves might be about to raise National Insurance (NI) - a form of tax - on employers.This could be by [...]
Labour’s new deal for workers: A fight postponed?
Getty ImagesAfter a torrid few weeks, Labour now has the opportunity to get on the front foot, and deliver on a major election pledge.The government w [...]
Treasury reconsidering Labour’s plan for non-dom tax status
The Treasury is reconsidering parts of Labour’s manifesto plan for non-domicile tax status over worries that the reforms will bring in less money than [...]
Labour’s net zero quest will cost working class jobs, unions fear
Labour’s green policies are costing jobs and “hollowing out working class communities,” the leader of the GMB union has warned.Gary Smith told the BBC [...]