ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads

From ‘moral duty’ to ‘military Keynesianism,’ Labour manipulates language to justify slashing welfare but pouring billions into warfare, condemning communities like Glasgow South West to deeper poverty, writes MATT KERR

While slashing welfare and public services, Labour’s spring statement delivers a bonanza for death-dealing bomb merchants. We now see the true and terrible face of austerity 2.0, writes MICHAEL BURKE

Labour accused of ‘balancing the books off the backs of the poor’ in spring spending statement

Chancellor Reeves' planned public spending cuts will ‘open the door’ for Reform UK, McDonnell warns as campaigners get set to rally outside the Treasury

Any positives from the government’s green paper proposals are vastly overshadowed by the scale of the cuts to vulnerable low-income households, argues JENNY RATHBONE MS

‘If the last government taught us anything, it’s that you can’t cut your way to growth,’ unions and campaigners tell Reeves

As Israel breaks ceasefire with air strikes on Gaza, killing 400, and ministers backtrack on acknowledging Israeli war crimes, campaigners ask ‘how many more Palestinians will be slaughtered before Britain stops sending arms to Israel?’