Martin Rowson on the black hole in Britain’s public finances – cartoon
Labour will be pushed to axe two-child benefit cap, says John McDonnell
May 2024
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Labour defends welcoming rightwing Tory MP Natalie Elphicke into party – as it happened
Observer book of the week
The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the leftists who took their lead from Tony Benn
January 2024
Does Keir Starmer really need John McDonnell’s advice?
Letters: Readers respond to the former shadow chancellor’s warning to the current leader of the Labour party
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Starmer says Labour will ‘meet fire with fire’ if Tories resort to dirty tactics during election – as it happened
Labour leader says Conservatives will ‘go low’ in election this year and Labour are prepared to match them if they do
Britain risks shift to far right if Labour fails to enact ‘radical change’, says John McDonnell
Former shadow chancellor says public disillusionment could set in and calls for ‘real strategy’ on wages and incomes
November 2023
We have a government-in-waiting with no real ideas
Letter: With crises hitting us head-on, the shadow cabinet thinks that yesterday’s reformism can tackle today’s emergencies, says Nick Moss
October 2023
Other lives
Patrick Kelly obituary
Other lives: Press officer and journalist who wrote a novel about his youthful days in Belfast
July 2023
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
No 10 defends record on NHS waiting list after minister admits it could grow further – as it happened
PM’s spokesperson says the government is focused on cutting long wait times as well as the waiting list itself
June 2023
‘Last Corbynista in power’ excluded from North East mayoral contest
Party factionalism blamed for decision not to include North of Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll from mayoral longlist
May 2023
The panel
What do the Tories’ dismal local results mean for the general election? Our panel responds
Katy Balls, John McDonnell, Martin Kettle, Caroline Lucas and Moya Lothian-McLean
Labour MPs attack party rule changes curbing links with anti-monarchy group
March 2023
Stop this illegal migration bill, in the name of humanity and common decency
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
UN refugee agency ‘profoundly concerned’ by UK’s illegal migration bill saying it amounts to an asylum ban – as it happened
February 2023
Labour left breaks with Jeremy Corbyn over sending weapons to Ukraine
Starmer’s banishment of Corbyn is one more step in eradicating the left from the Labour party
Owen Jones
November 2022
If Labour’s leadership is hobbling internal candidates, is it fit to run a democracy?
Owen Jones
Arts funding cuts ‘cultural vandalism’, says Juliet Stevenson, at DCMS protest
October 2022
People thought Corbyn and I would crash the pound. The real risk was Truss and her fanatics
John McDonnell
We knew the markets would react sharply to us and were prepared for that. These free-market zealots had no plan at all, says former shadow chancellor John McDonnell
