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Protesters on Whitehall in London, as Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivers her spring statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, March 26, 2025
Britain / 25 November 2025
25 November 2025

Campaigners rally outside Downing Street on the eve of make-or-break Budget

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham attending a Labour for a New Democracy fringe event at the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 28, 2025
Labour Party / 20 November 2025
20 November 2025
The front of the Marx Memorial Library
Britain / 20 November 2025
20 November 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Downing Street, London, November 17, 2025
Britain / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025
Defence Secretary John Healey delivering a speech on how the UK's defence industry is delivering growth and national renewal across the UK, at No 9 Downing Street in central London, November 19, 2025
Military / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025
Richard Burgon at the SEC centre, Glasgow, February 15, 2020
Economy / 19 November 2025
19 November 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, November 12, 2025
Labour Party / 15 November 2025
15 November 2025

As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership

Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, November 12, 2025
Labour Party / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025
Unite the union general secretary Sharon Graham
Economy / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025
GB News presenter Matthew Goodwin speaking at the Reform UK annual conference at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, September 5, 2025
Reform UK / 13 November 2025
13 November 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting looks on as Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom, Surrey, January 6, 2025
Britain / 12 November 2025
12 November 2025
US President Donald Trump during a press conference with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK, September 18, 2025
Britain / 11 November 2025
11 November 2025
Children leaving a school in Leeds, March 2020
The Budget / 11 November 2025
11 November 2025
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana take part in a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester. Picture date: Friday October 10, 2025
Eyes Left / 12 November 2025
12 November 2025

While all of good faith on the left should wish the new party well, ANDREW MURRAY pinpoints some of the major challenges it will need to grapple with as it approaches its founding conference later this month

Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair during the Sharm El Sheikh Peace Summit in Egypt, October 13, 2025
Neoliberalism / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
Dick Cheney in Iraq
US Politics / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025

ANDREW MURRAY looks back on the ignominious career of the former US vice-president, who died earlier this week

Former Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen addresses supporters, after the party allegedly blocked her from standing over past posts on social media website X, outside a supermarket in Highams Park, north-west London, May 31, 2024
Parliamentary Politics / 6 November 2025
6 November 2025
Zohran Mamdani speaks after winning the mayoral election in New York, November 4, 2025
Socialism / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025
Chancellor Rachel Reeves delivers a speech in the media briefing room of 9 Downing Street in central London, ahead of the Budget later this month, November 4, 2025
The Budget / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
Zarah Sultana speaks during a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally in Whitehall, central London, October 11, 2025
Parliamentary Politics / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025
Corbs and Sultana
Britain / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025
Chancellor of Exchequer Rachel Reeves during a visit to the Sipsmith Distillery in Chiswick West London, to highlight how the India Free Trade Agreement is supporting British Business. Picture date: Thursday October 9, 2025
Labour Party / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025