Transparency records reveal senior trade officials held dinners and strategy meetings with the notorious lobbying firm even as controversy over its Epstein links deepened, says SOLOMON HUGHES
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Let’s defeat Boris Johnson’s divisive agenda
The NHS, social security and workers’ unity are under threat from Tory immigration policies, writes DIANE ABBOTT
Starmer promised a reset after Labour’s dire electoral performance, but the government’s programme still falls far short of the bold action needed, says ANDY McDONALD MP
ANDREW DRAPER reports on the deliberate targeting and torture of Palestinian journalists by the Israeli state
Author Michael Rosen asked people how we confront a takeover by Reform. The Labour Party would do well to listen to the answers rather than shuffle more deckchairs on the Titanic, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
What began as a purported ‘anti-drugs mission’ has evolved into a permanent regional military operation, write ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY
KEITH FLETT looks at a post-election London
IN EVERY area of policy being discussed as this election goes on, the dividing lines between Labour and the Tories are becoming clearer.
And at the centre of them all is a fundamental divide between Labour’s vision of hope and unity, and the Tories’ politics of scapegoating and division.
To take the area of immigration policy as an example, the differences between the Conservatives and the Labour Party are strong indicators of the real distance between us and our competing visions for our futures.
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