Politics needs to change,’ Andy Burnham, our presumptive next prime minister, told the ‘Great North Summit’ in Leeds this ...

Justice Secretary David Lammy is planning an overhaul of the youth justice system that would see the parents of ...

The Great North summit sounds like it should have been a peace conference attended by Peter the Great. Instead, ...

For political journalists, a leadership contest is like the FA Cup final. I can imagine the BBC’s Chris Mason and Sky’s Beth ...

Wes Streeting believes it was a ‘catastrophic mistake’ for Britain to leave the EU. If he becomes prime minister, ...

Andy Burnham has previously vowed to drag Britain back into the EU. He has also had a pop at Shabana Mahmood’s immigration ...

Mind your language if you want to speak in the Scottish Parliament. Newly elected presiding officer Kenny Gibson has ...

Middlemarch, which a Guardian poll of ‘experts’ has named as the best novel ever, is overrated. I enjoyed reading it when ...

For a brief while, in the early 2010s, supporters of Middlesbrough FC borrowed from the Proclaimers to create a ...

Forget intergenerational equity. The objective of this Budget was to raise revenue. Capital growth was targeted as a matter ...

The men have looked at what's on offer. And many have, with considerable rationality, decided to go and play video games ...

Perhaps the strangest thing about the Unite the Kingdom rally was just how unremarkable it felt. There were no ...