The UK Prime Minister may have the regal touch in northern England, but he’s been wrong-footed on the constitutional challenges posed by the Celtic Alliance of first ministers from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, argues KENNY MacASKILL
THIS week, the Tories claimed that they want to build a country that works for everyone, but in fact their conference showed they have nothing left to offer the people of Britain.
They’ve spent the week rehashing policies and watering down Labour ideas to present as their own. They’ve shown a lacklustre and divided front and failed to address the real issues facing our country.
When it came to Theresa May’s speech for example, she finally recognised that the energy market was broken, echoing the speech from Ed Miliband the Tories mocked as Marxist not so many years ago.
TUC president and POA leader STEVE GILLAN speaks to Ben Chacko on the eve of Congress 2026
The government’s latest asylum proposals abandon labour movement values and fuel division by aping Reform UK, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
Only an ambitious programme of state-led investment can restore growth and improve living standards, argues MICHAEL BURKE
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10


