Jonathan Reynolds, Labour’s business secretary, told the Financial Times, “We have to respond to the agenda the US president has just set out with our own dynamism… Every country has to do it.”

A LONG-serving Labour councillor has announced she has left the party and will represent her constituents as an Independent instead.

Riddled with jargon, Labour’s Plan will hold Britain back at a critical crossroads in global innovation. Britain deserves a bold, forward-thinking government to secure its position as a tech superpower. In contrast, Labour’s approach is analogue government in the digital age.

It's like complaining that PM Keir Starmer hasn't grabbed enough freebies, or that Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has too much common sense. But that’s how they think, on the left of the party. Their biggest beef about Labour is that Rachel Reeves is too soft. She needs to tax more – and spend more of course.

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The Chancellor has faced questions about her plans since the start of the year, amid stuttering growth figures and rising borrowing costs

A London Labour MP who was forced to apologise after threatening to smash a reporter’s face in with a bat has been made a trade envoy to East Africa. Kate Osamor, MP for Edmonton and Winchmore Hill, was among a slew of 32 parliamentarians appointed to trade envoy positions on Tuesday in a bid by ministers to improve growth.

Reform UK has started tying green policies to grimly high energy bills — and some government MPs are getting nervous.

Angela Rayner’s plans for a major redesign of local government have been met with resistance from ‘the smallest county in England’

Labour Party government is mulling over plans to offer cheap or interest free loans on electric vehicles (EV) to drive up sales, as the number of motorists switching from petrol and diesel stalls.

Andrew Lewin, the Labour Party MP for Welwyn Hatfield, is calling for a scheme whereby under-40s who have a decade of National Insurance contributions are handed £11,500 in exchange for delaying retirement by a year.

Sir Keir Starmer is to ditch every Labour policy that damages growth as he scrambles to rescue Britain’s struggling economy...