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Labour needs a growth plan for the north

Plus, the ‘multiplier’ effect of the BBC’s move to Salford

Financial Times - Feb. 13

Second Labour MP apologises over WhatsApp comments

Burnley MP Oliver Ryan says his comments in the group were "completely unacceptable".

BBC News - Feb. 10

Labour suspends 11 councillors over WhatsApp group

The group, which is being investigated by the party, has already led to the suspension of two Labour MPs.

BBC News - Feb. 11

Donald Trump will force a fiscal reckoning on Labour

Past governments have broken tax promises as they weigh trade-offs against bigger imperatives and geopolitics

Financial Times - Feb. 13

Labour will have to ditch tax pledges sooner or later

Spending cuts to fund increased defence spending will not impress UK voters and something will have to give

Financial Times - 2d

Labour’s prisons reform is a policy of necessity, not choice

Party breaks with decades-old consensus on sending more people to jail at the risk of turning off voters

Financial Times - 1d

The Papers: 'MPs in vile chats' and 'Labour's plan to tackle Farage threat'

The fallout after the sacking of a health minister over offensive messages is the top story in some of Monday's front pages.

BBC News - Feb. 10

Labour peer calls for UK attorney-general Hermer to quit

Lord Glasman’s criticism comes as tensions rise between liberal and conservative wings of Sir Keir Starmer’s party

Financial Times - Feb. 10

Second Labour MP suspended from party over WhatsApp messages

Oliver Ryan was a member of the same message group as former health minister Andrew Gwynne

Financial Times - Feb. 10

Oliver Ryan suspended as Labour MP over WhatsApp messages

Ryan had been summoned to a meeting with his chief whip after the Mail on Sunday published the texts.

BBC News - Feb. 10

One area where Labour can do more with less money

Reforming special needs provision will not make huge savings but it offers lessons for trimming welfare spending

Financial Times - 6d

What we've learned about Rachel Reeves's expenses - and the Labour response

Senior figures defended the chancellor after we revealed her expenses were investigated before she was an MP.

BBC News - 5d

Iceland chair and Labour backer gives Starmer government ‘6 out of 10’

Head of food retailer says he wants ministers to focus on planning reform and fixing Britain’s productivity problems

Financial Times - 3d

More than 900 Labour figures decry party’s migration and asylum policy

Joint statement accuses government of copying Tories’ ‘performative cruelty’. A group of more than 900 Labour members and trade unionists, including MPs and peers, have accused the government of ...

The Guardian - 3d

Scottish Labour faces ‘challenge’ to win next Holyrood elections, Sarwar admits

Exclusive: Increases in support for Reform UK and Scottish Greens suggest a comfortable win for the SNP in 2026. Anas Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, has admitted his party faces a significant ...

The Guardian - 1d

Labour shortage will hit Germany's east hardest as population ages

Yahoo News - 1d

It’s straight from the Trump playbook: Labour is tearing up the machinery of government | George Monbiot

If Starmer and Reeves really want a greener, cleaner, wilder nation, then why attack vital state bodies that are already on their knees?. This might sound astonishing, but the UK government’s core ...

The Guardian - Feb. 11

I was a content moderator for Facebook. I saw the real cost of outsourcing digital labour | Sonia Kgomo

Tech firms must invest in and respect the people who filter social media and label the data that AI relies on. Sonia Kgomo is an organiser with African Tech Workers Rising; she spoke at the AI ...

The Guardian - Feb. 12

Ukraine just the latest Trump wheeze for Labour to try to defend and disown | John Crace

It was left to the poor junior defence minister Maria Eagle to walk that particular tightrope in the Commons. In his ghostwritten 1987 bestseller The Art of the Deal, Donald Trump delivers his ...

The Guardian - Feb. 13

Digested week: Labour politicians’ loose talk part of longstanding tradition | Emma Brockes

Awkward WhatsApp revelations, binned bitcoin, musical heart, Godfather nostalgia and the happy over-50s. Career death via “offensive WhatsApp group” is a modern iteration of a longstanding ...

The Guardian - 6d

Britain’s Hard-Right Reform U.K. Party Wins Over Some Labour Voters

Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration party is winning over some disillusioned Labour voters by targeting regions that are struggling economically and by campaigning on local issues.

The New York Times - 6d

Nigel Farage says Tories ‘not on the right in any measurable way’ and calls Labour government ‘miserable’ – UK politics live

Leader of Reform UK criticises Conservatives and ‘declinist’ Labour government in new attacks. Good morning, defence secretary John Healey has finished speaking, so I can take a quick pause and ...

The Guardian - 2d

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