Winter fuel cuts: Labour conference ends on a sour note
Delegates voted against the policy today, but party operators remain optimistic.
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Labour’s annual conference will take place from Sunday 8 to Wednesday 11 October in Liverpool. Any party member at the conference has the right to vote on motions, and the main topics of discussion are what the Labour Party has to do to win the next general election, strikes, climate action and the cost-of-living crisis. Keir Starmer, the party leader, and frontbenchers including Angela Rayner, his deputy, and Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, will give speeches. Here you can find the latest news and commentary on the conference.
Starmer conference speech: distant but sunlit uplands
In a message of cautious hope, the prime minister outlined the rewards for the political pain to come.
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Westminster parties engulfed by a cost-of-conference crisis
Your weekly dose of gossip from the corridors of power.
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Why I always do business over breakfast
Also this week: the blue suit brigade, conference karaoke.
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The seven lessons of Labour conference
Beyond Keir Starmer, two main camps have emerged in the party: one led by Rachel Reeves, the other by Wes…
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The Tories needed to win conference season – but they lost it
For the first time since 1996, this looked like a Labour opposition destined for election victory.
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Labour’s quiet radicalism is getting louder
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are championing an agenda significantly to the left of New Labour.
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Fear and glitter at the Labour Party conference
After a TV grilling, Sir Keir delivered his speech in the guise of an accountant lost in Glasto.
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Keir Starmer’s speech made the Tories look like the opposition
The hopes that Rishi Sunak’s allies had for conference season have been wholly disappointed.
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Keir Starmer offers himself as a left conservative
The Labour leader is defining himself through working-class patriotism.
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Rachel Reeves gives her best speech yet
The shadow chancellor forcefully laid down Labour’s attack lines for the next election.
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Lisa Nandy puts a positive spin on demotion
“I’ve gone from levelling up the country to levelling up the world,” the shadow cabinet minister told a fringe meeting.
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It’s Rachel Reeves’s party now
The shadow chancellor mixed fiscal discipline with class war. Both went down equally well in a changed Labour Party.
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Does Labour want electoral reform?
Shadow leader of the Commons, Lucy Powell, has said she is open to "conversations" over changing the voting system.
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Jeremy Corbyn can’t derail the Labour conference
The former leader caused a stir by refusing to condemn Hamas but his influence is much diminished.
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New polling confirms Labour is now the party of business
As the party’s conference begins, research shared exclusively with New Statesman Spotlight shows industry prefers Labour to the Tories.
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Inside the Angela Rayner show
Labour’s deputy leader has gone from political troublemaker to star act.
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Keir Starmer pledges to reverse Rwanda scheme even if declared legal
The Labour leader’s announcement opens up a clear dividing line with the Conservatives on immigration.
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Among the believers
Labour gathers in Liverpool as a government-in-waiting. But can Keir Starmer negotiate the traps being set for him?
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Almost half of UK offshore wind is owned by foreign governments
A mere 0.03 per cent of offshore wind is owned by British public entities.
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