The grenade is Liz Truss. Labour loves to talk about her. Reeves reminded the House yesterday of two awkward facts: what the ...

It’s a dull grey day in the pebbledashed sprawl of north-west London when I first see Keir Starmer. We’re at RAF Northolt ...

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Reeves’ advance U-turn on winter fuel already marked a return to more familiar territory. Labour MPs struggled to defend a policy that removed the benefit from almost all pensioners. Now, with it ...

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