A year ago we gave Rachel Reeves nine ideas to plug the gap. She’s gone, the gap hasn’t. Here they are again, for the new man ...

AI data centres are big business. And after the long, hot, summer, there’s an intense focus on them environmentally and ...

Westminster returned from conference season yesterday to find the prime minister rummaging around in the attic. Andy Burnham had dug out a box that has gathered dust in the corner of British politics ...

John Healey’s resignation over defence spending was one of the final nails in Keir Starmer’s coffin. The former defence secretary felt the former prime minister had been unable to commit the resources ...

Whether you consider his political strategy to be savvy social networking or a selling out to Instagram, Andy Burnham’s grasp of what makes politics relatable is his key strength as prime minister. He ...

AI’s thirst for water has quickly achieved a sort of folk status, from memes online to protests against the data centres. But tech companies claim AI can help solve the world’s problems, including ...

More than 5,500 days have now passed since Andrew Dilnot’s commission into England’s adult care system declared it “not fit for purpose” and in need of “urgent and lasting reform”. But it has still ...

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Andy Burnham upped the stakes in his speech to Labour’s conference when he promised to end the ban on public ownership of water companies. Previously he had called only for more public control.

If you stayed up for the Holborn and St Pancras count hoping for a political earthquake, bad luck. Labour’s Sagal Abdi-Wali held Keir Starmer’s old seat with 12,292 votes (45.1 per cent of the vote), ...

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