The latest revelations about the ‘Prince of Darkness’ expose a web of political patronage, media collusion and unaccountable power. To restore public trust and safeguard democracy, Leveson 2 is urgently needed to hold the powerful to account, says KIM JOHNSON MP

Labour’s collapse in public support and the stench of sleaze around its leadership share a common origin in the New Labour project. Without a decisive rejection of this harmful ideology, the road is clear for a Farage-led government, warns DIANE ABBOTT

Unions and MPs warn Starmer against blocking Burnham’s potential return to Westminster

The US assault on Venezuela is brazen and unlawful – yet our PM claims uncertainty. By refusing to confront Trump’s naked imperialism, Starmer abandons international law, mortgages British policy to Washington, and clears the ground for war, argues ANDREW MURRAY

SALLY LEWIS asks why Maduro’s legitimacy in Venezuela is contested, while Keir Starmer’s is not despite his mandate resting on a far smaller share of the vote

Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES

Thousands of Palestine protesters march on eve of Labour conference 

Labour faces fresh condemnation amid Israel's ground offensive into Gaza City

TUC Congress backs calls for the 'authoritarian' proscription of Palestine Action to be repealed and for the arrest of the Israeli President at Downing Street

Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more

JOHN ELLISON looks back at Labour’s opportunistic tendency, when in office, to veer to the right on policy as well as ideological worldview

STEPHEN ARNELL examines whether Starmer is a canny strategist playing a longer game or heading for MacDonald’s Great Betrayal, tracing parallels between today’s rightward drift and the 1931 crisis

SOLOMON HUGHES details how the firm has quickly moved on to buttering-up Labour MPs after the fall of the Tories so it can continue to ‘win both ways’ collecting public and private cash by undermining the NHS

MPs across the Commons denounce Labour's lack of action on Gaza