The Guardian - 12 hours 24 min ago
Keir Starmer expected to accuse Conservatives of failing on levelling up and preying' on hopes of voters May will mark the beginning of the end of a "Tory era of politics as performance art", Keir Starmer will say at the launch of Labour's local election campaign, accusing ministers of having utterly failed on levelling up. The Labour leader will join his deputy, Angela Rayner, and Richard Parker, the party's candidate for West Midlands mayor, to argue that the Tories had given...
The Guardian - 20 hours 16 min ago
Labour peer says there is little desire among voters for a referendum and in Brussels for renegotiations Peter Mandelson has dismissed the prospect of an incoming Labour government taking Britain back into the EU, saying "you've got to be joking" that Brussels would want to renegotiate the UK's membership. The Labour peer, a former EU trade commissioner and close adviser to Keir Starmer, said rejoining the 27-country bloc would require a referendum that UK voters had little desire...