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Nearly 60 Labour MPs have demanded the UK immediately recognises Palestine as a state, after Israel’s defence minister announced plans to force all residents of Gaza…

Angela Rayner has said she will not be “pushed around” by the Unite trade union after it voted to suspend her membership and rethink its ties…

Labour will aim to embed a Sure Start-type system of help for deprived children and families so deeply and completely into the state that a future…

As the government braces for a backlash over its plans to overhaul special needs education in England, we look at why the system is in such…

Labour’s most high-profile billionaire backer, who switched allegiance from the Conservatives, has said he is “increasingly nervous” about the government’s direction and is in “despair of…

Downing Street should commit to education, health and care plans (EHCPs) to keep the trust of families who have children with special educational needs, the Labour…

What will Keir Starmer and his colleagues learn from the disaster of their attempt to cut benefits? Most speculation so far has been focused on the…

In a stiflingly hot room at a health centre in East London, as he announced the government’s 10-year plan for the NHS on Thursday, Keir Starmer…

Keir Starmer’s government appears “disjointed” from the rest of the Labour party just a year after taking power, regional mayors have said, with one blaming No…

Laura KuenssbergPresenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurakBBC”There’s only one relationship that really matters,” a senior figure in government told me in the middle of Labour’s dreadful week,…