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Keir Starmer wants to be seen as a working-class PM. Deeds, not warm words, will determine that

People in my home city of Liverpool still see Labour as a ‘hold your nose’ option. That should worry the leadership, says the Guardian’s assistant national news editor, Aaron Sharp

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It’s fair that Angela Rayner is subject to scrutiny – but not if it’s based on snobbery

Labour’s deputy is of course accountable for any irregularity in her tax affairs. Yet this looks like class-based shaming, says the Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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Margaret Thatcher set Britain’s decline in motion – so why can’t politics exorcise her ghost?

MPs on all sides pay homage, while her failures are forgotten, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Starmer is courting Tory voters so hard it’s almost as though he wants to lose his own

Now Labour is cosying up to the Sun. Getting its backing could end up looking like a political coup, or the ultimate act of selling out, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Labour aims to raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP

Starmer’s comments come before visit to Barrow, where he is to promise nuclear deterrent is ‘bedrock’ of security plan

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Labour may fail to grab target seats as young voters turn away over Gaza and climate

Party figures say decision to tack to right on issues such as immigration could also diminish predicted landslide

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‘Lesser of two evils’: voters in Sheffield Hallam look to Labour with reluctance

Conservative supporters are hard to find in this area of Sheffield, but Lib Dems say Labour are taking these voters for granted

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Waiting for this flailing government to call an election is excruciating. We need parliamentary reform

A Fixed-term Parliaments Act must be restored, so election dates suit the national interest – not the prime minister’s, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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‘Revolutions are coming’: who are Youth Demand and what do they want?

New organisation behind protest outside Keir Starmer’s home has big plans for future political change

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Let’s stop talking about ‘great’ Britain – and rebrand ourselves as a different sort of country

Any plans for ‘national renewal’ must focus on freeing the UK from its vice of wallowing in guilt or glory, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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The Guardian view on Labour and the tax gap: a £5bn question for a coterie of insiders

Editorial: Among the party’s experts on tax avoidance is a former City lawyer who wrote that ‘taxation is legalised extortion’

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OPINION - Rishi Sunak, Adidas Sambas and the art of the political apology

Rishi Sunak has said sorry. This recantation didn't quite match the magnitude of Keith Joseph's 1974 apology for the Conservatives Party's role in the post-war consensus or Tony Blair's expression of regret over Britain's role during the Irish potato famine. But it is parliamentary recess and the pickings are slim.

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Rishi Sunak recalls seeing shoplifters in his mother’s pharmacy amid new criminal crackdown

But Labour slams the plan as too little, too late amid an epidemic of retail crime

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Rishi Sunak appeals to Reform UK defectors to stick by the Conservatives over immigration and net zero

PM says he still plans to call election ‘in the second half of this year’

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Post Office Horizon IT cases ‘the greatest scandal I have ever seen’, says former senior judge – as it happened

Sir Anthony Hooper tells inquiry: ‘We’ve had many miscarriages of justice, but nowhere near as many as these’

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‘We can’t tolerate this’: Sunak condemns protest outside Starmer’s house

Three arrested after young activists demonstrate outside Labour leader’s home, urging him to support arms embargo on Israel

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The Guardian view on Sure Start’s success: Labour should see the latest findings as an opportunity

Editorial: Research proving that early intervention works ought to be seized on by Keir Starmer’s party

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Rishi Sunak condemns pro-Palestinian group that targeted Keir Starmer's home

Activists from the same group sprayed Labour’s headquarters with red paint

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Senior Labour figures call for ‘life-transforming’ Sure Start policy

Gordon Brown and three former education ministers say New Labour’s acclaimed early-years programme benefited millions

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OPINION - I admire Labour's Angela Rayner but this tax business stinks

It’s hard not to admire Angela Rayner. Her backstory is almost cinematic – bullied kid growing up poor in Stockport, Manchester, told she would never amount to anything, illiterate mentally ill mother who she cared for from the age of ten. Pregnant at 16, deputy leader of the Labour Party…

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The Labour party’s complicated relationship with God

Letters: Andrew Copson of Humanists UK, Zaki Cooper, David Tutssel and David Cragg-James respond to an editorial about the party and faith communities

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Conservative cabinet ministers, look away now: your ‘Portillo moment’ could be on the cards

Two mega-polls suggest that the Tories are heading for a defeat more catastrophic than they experienced in 1997. What if they’re right?

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Only four in 10 Tory voters from 2019 back Sunak – poll

Opinium’s latest research for Observer finds voters deserting the Conservatives for Reform and Labour in equal numbers

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A Labour government could face teachers’ strikes, union warns

National Education Union chief Daniel Kebede says Labour pledges are ‘a long way from the scale of change’ needed

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All hail the ‘mimbys’: the open-minded voters who might just save Labour’s housing plans

With millennials now a political force, Starmer should focus on building houses, because that builds hope, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

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