Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Italy’s political turmoil deepens
Already facing increasing energy costs from the war in the east, attitudes to Ukraine have also split the Five Star Movement, the biggest grouping in parliament, plunging the government back into chaos, reports NICK WRIGHT
JOINING THE WAR BLOC: PM Mario Draghi (right) has moved closer to the EU and Nato, alienating some of his M5S party colleagues
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
THE weather is hot, tempers are short and, once again, government is in crisis.
It normally is — and this one will not be settled while Italians are heading for the beaches.
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio has split from the populist Movimento Cinque Stella (Five Star Movement, M5S) taking 60 of the party’s 227 members of the country’s Chamber of Deputies.
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