First, the origins of this week’s mess: the Treasury’s decision to use welfare cuts to try to balance the books. For many ...

Home; Politics; in depth BBC Labour leadership debate: what we learned. Lisa Nandy, Keir Starmer, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Emily Thornberry clashed on anti-Semitism and Brexit ...

Has Starmer’s leadership been weakened by Labour’s welfare revolt? Join The Independent Debate - THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Just ...

The Newsnight Labour Leadership Debate, presented by Laura Kuenssberg, will be broadcast live from Nuneaton in front of an audience at 7pm on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.

The contenders for the leadership of the Labour Party clash over the party's record in government, including public spending, in a public debate.

Can Jeremy Corbyn stay in the lead as he faces pressure from Cooper, Burnham and Kendall? Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images The four Labour leadership hopefuls went head-to-head on live TV on 3 ...

Watch live as MPs debate and vote on the Labour government’s welfare bill in the House of Commons on Tuesday (1 July). The ...

Few could have expected that a controversial election poster more than 40 years ago would so accurately reflect today’s debate about race in politics. Labour were outraged when, during the 1983 ...

Ahead of the first U.S. presidential debate this election season, the United Kingdom has witnessed its final leadership debate between the two candidates for prime minister. The election is July 4.

During tonight’s ITV Tory leadership debate, however, he showed he can still pursue a path to victory. He attacked Liz Truss and Penny Mordaunt – one of whom is almost certain to join him in the final ...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and MP Owen Smith are set to go head-to-head in front of a live television audience for the last time tonight as the long and acrimonious party leadership race comes to ...

THE INDEPENDENT DEBATE: Just over half of Independent readers supported welfare reform in principle, but only 28 per cent backed Starmer’s current proposals ...