The left, just like the right, is a broad but unhappy church – will its internal rifts reach breaking point at Labour’s upcoming conference in Liverpool? Asks Helen Thomas This Sunday, Liverpool plays host to the Labour Party conference,

Building has slowed in cities, where it is needed most. In London it has almost ground to a halt. In the second quarter of the year, two-thirds of London boroughs started no projects of 20 or more homes, according to Molior, a consultancy. “When Labour came in it was like morning had broken,” says one developer. “That mood has dissipated.”

Lucy Powell said that while campaigning in Lewisham she spoke to ‘a lot of traditional Labour voters who are frustrated’ with how the Government has acted since coming to power last July

The Electoral Commission has said it will not reopen an investigation into Labour Together, the think tank previously led by the prime minister's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney. In 2021, the commission investigated and fined Labour Together for late and inaccurate reporting of its donations.

Sir Keir Starmer is facing a leadership nightmare days before the Labour Party conference, after Andy Burnham confirmed Labour MPs want him to challenge the prime minister.

A new poll shows that the party has dropped to its lowest level of public support since coming to power in July 2024.

Executives heading to Liverpool conference say government must avoid a further increase in costs for companies

A Hull councillor has quit the Labour Party to sit as an independent member. Hull City councillor Peter North, who represents the Bricknell ward, said he believed Prime Minister Kier Starmer's party was "no longer working towards the social change this country desperately needs".

I t still pays to have working-class credentials in the Labour Party. The father of Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s prime minister, was a toolmaker; Sir Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, had a father who drove a bus;

Andy Burnham has raised “legitimate concerns” about Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership, the mayor of London has said. Mr Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, made a series of headline-grabbing interventions earlier this week,

Oxfordshire County Council have been accused of "not listening" to local concerns over the city's new congestion charge by senior figures in the county's Labour Party. In a letter to the authority's transport chief Andrew Gant, Oxford East MP Annaliese Dodds said there had been "huge local disquiet" regarding the charge scheme.