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The ghosts of Burnham past haunt his campaign

2

Belfast violence prompts fight on the right

3

Why Burnham agrees with Farage

4

Will Keir fight on?

5

Could Andy Burnham build to victory?

6

Revealed: Who are the brains behind Burnham

7

Life after Keir - will it be coronation or contest?

8

The Mandelson files: How bad can it be?

9

Morgan McSweeney on voters and discontent

10

The story behind Britain’s sanctions blunder

11

Rachel Reeves picks a fight on judicial review

12

How can Starmer’s cabinet look each other in the eye?

13

Burnham’s 55% chance of losing Makerfield

14

Wes v Angela: The battle commences

15

Starmer eyeballs Streeting - a clash or just coffee?

16

Will Wes Streeting fire the starting gun today?

17

Can Burnham delay Starmer’s exit?

18

Keir’s defences: Has the dam broken?

19

Have election results decided Starmer’s fate?

20

Vote 2026: The final countdown

21

Ready or not: Keir’s rivals flounder

22

Local elections: The pollster’s verdict

23

“My prime minister” - the King steps in

24

Will McSweeney stumble on Starmer?

25

The King in Washington: Charles’s real job this week

26

Cat amongst the pigeons: Mandarins at war

27

Keir's cabinet: Who's left on the barricades

28

Why Olly Robbins isn’t Labour’s only problem

29

The problem with Keir’s Mandelson defence

30

Going postal: The election brawl begins

31

Trump v Britain: The war of words spirals

32

Is Starmer guilty of “corrosive complacency” on defence?

33

The rising cost of trouble abroad

34

Why is so much at stake in the May elections?

35

Keir takes charge on Iran contingencies

36

From Tehran to Teesside: Could Starmer run out of energy?

37

The fuel plan ministers don’t want to talk about

38

Rachel Reeves takes back control

39

The cost of war becomes Reeves’ nightmare

40

Is Reeves next on the Rayner hit list?

41

Angela v Shabana: Who will win?

42

Angela cashes in - but at what price?

43

Can Starmer win by defying Trump?

44

The three things keeping Keir Starmer in his job

45

What Starmer doesn’t want to see in the Mandelson files

46

Military chiefs vs the PM

47

Oil spikes: How high is the price of war?

48

The hole in Starmer’s story on Iran

49

UK prepares for war lasting months

50

Spring forecast: Decoding Reeves’ boasts

51

Starmer and Trump trade blows on Iran

52

Why Starmer bowed to Trump on Iran

53

Labour’s disaster: The blame game begins

54

Has the government sealed the fate of the assisted dying bill?

55

Can Starmer conquer Burnham's kingdom?

56

Can Starmer shake off Mandelson’s ghost?

57

Make or break: The SEND reforms Keir Starmer must win

58

Keir’s succession: The field widens

59

Revealed: Starmer’s three near-death moments

60

What did Starmer promise to buy loyalty?

61

Has Streeting painted a target on his back?

62

Can Starmer live without Morgan McSweeney?

63

Starmer: Is there a future?

64

Can Starmer keep Mandelson vetting secret?

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Is Mandelson already plotting his next comeback?

66

Mandelson fall: A body blow for McSweeney?

67

President Xi vs the Tories

68

Can 'never here Keir' bring back the goods from China?

69

Starmer in China: Will he trigger Trump?

70

Can Starmer withstand the Burnham backlash?

71

Trump climbdown: Has January been a wasted month

72

Farage lobbies Team Trump in Davos

73

Trump unleashes Chagos Bazooka on Keir

74

Why Starmer is saying Trump is wrong

75

Starmer’s three big woes revealed

76

Why is the UK so bad at getting stuff done?

77

Labour MPs vs the Spooks

78

Red on red: How X is upsetting Labour

79

Bridget Phillipson fights back

80

New restrictions: Government plans every driver will care about

81

Why Scottish Labour is telling Keir to stay away

82

Has the threat to Keir Starmer receded?

83

Will 2026 break British politics?

84

Which politician had the best 2025?

85

Who is winning the Washington Ambo race?

86

Is Angela Rayner popular enough to be PM?

87

What the first female head of MI6 really wants

88

Back of the queue: Europe minister keeps Anne waiting in line

89

Has Trump abandoned Starmer?

90

Trump bashes Europe: What will Britain do?

91

Labour together? Who is hastening the PM's downfall

92

Starmer v Putin: Why the deep state is worried

93

Who is behind Farage-Tory pact plot?

94

Why is Keir Starmer talking about Brexit?

95

Keirsplaining the budget: PM to the rescue?

96

The budget's hidden problems revealed

97

Budget 2025: What Rachel Reeves didn’t say

98

What is the positive case for Rachel Reeves’ budget?

99

Reeves’ risky budget fightback

100

Budget week: What business really fears

101

Gender wars follow Starmer to the G20

102

Is the mansion tax back?

103

Has the budget already unravelled?

104

Will Labour accept Shabana's asylum crackdown?

105

Behind the scenes at toxic No10

106

Starmer v Streeting: What’s going on?

107

The BBC’s Billion Dollar Question

108

Political Traitors: Who can you trust?

109

Why is Keir Starmer bothering with COP?

110

Can Rachel Reeves take back control?

111

Farage rips into Keminomics

112

Farage vs Mahmood: who is the Terminator?

113

The sums that might fill Rachel Reeves’ £30bn black hole

114

Poll plunge: Why has Labour sunk so low?

115

Why Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have both left the country

116

Liz Truss tells Anne that Kemi is captured by the "blob"

117

Why Keir Starmer has a people problem

118

Is Prince Andrew a problem for politics?

119

Succession: Who will be the next UK ambo to the US?

120

The real reason for Rachel Reeves' class war

121

Rachel Reeves tells Sam to prepare for tax rises

122

Has Kemi's stamp duty pledge flopped?

123

China spy trial and the British deep state

124

Why India is a taxing trip for Starmer

125

Kemi Badenoch speech: Not dead yet

126

Why is Starmer visiting Putin's friend?

127

Robert Jenrick vs Kemi Badenoch

128

Is £47bn of Tory cuts realistic?

129

Sam reveals a Tory donor defection to Reform

130

Kemi tells Anne "we are a distressed asset"

131

Will Labour really leave Liverpool happy with Keir?

132

‘Renew Britain’ - but did it renew Keir Starmer?

133

Starmer's future: renewal or decline?

134

Can Rachel Reeves clamber out of the black hole?

135

Is Keir for keeps? Labour conference special

136

What does Andy Burnham want?

137

Is Jaguar Land Rover suffering the "curse of Starmer"?

138

Ed Davey debriefed: Why so much about Nigel Farage?

139

Is Ed Davey the future of the Lib Dems?

140

The problems with Farage's big deportation plan

141

Starmer navigates Trump minefield

142

Is the Trump state visit worth it?

143

How to get rid of Keir Starmer?

144

Can Trump lift Starmer's gloom?

145

Mandelson: what did Starmer know?

146

Rachel vs the blockers: Who will win?

147

Can the IMF bail out Kemi?

148

Shabana replaces Yvette: what difference will it make?

149

Farage revs up as Rayner bows out

150

Can Keir Starmer live without Angela Rayner?

151

Why is nobody talking about the ‘black hole’?

152

The secret story of the reset

153

What's behind Starmer's reset?

154

Will this be Starmer's toughest term yet?

155

Can Labour find a solution on small boats?

156

Will Labour get better marks on education next term?

157

Is Streeting's NHS plan an effective cure?

158

Will Starmer's Trump tactics keep paying off?

159

Will Rachel Reeves’ sums ever add up?

160

Is the Kemi reshuffle a Cleverly move?

161

Water wars: What difference will it make?

162

Labour suspensions: 5 reasons they might be a mistake

163

Who will take the fall for the Afghan cover-up?

164

Can Rachel make things cheaper?

165

Comeback Kid: Rachel Reeves's revival plan

166

Why Boris's best mate is off to Reform

167

Can Streeting stop the doctors strikes?

168

‘Oui’ or ‘non’ for Starmer’s migration deal?

169

Reeves's tax turmoil deepens

170

What’s really going on with Rachel Reeves?

171

How does Keir Starmer get out of the crisis?

172

Starmer on a knife edge

173

Does Starmer read his speeches?

174

Who will take the fall for welfare chaos?

175

Inside the blame game as the welfare rebellion worsens

176

Is Keir Starmer going to have to give in again?

177

The four questions Starmer will be asking on Iran

178

If Trump strikes, what will Starmer do?

179

How much does Starmer know about Trump’s Iran plan?

180

G7 - Trump walks out, Starmer holds his breath

181

Can Starmer contain Trump on Iran?

182

Economy shock overshadows Reeves' big day

183

Who'll win and lose in the spending review

184

Meltdown? Labour goes nuclear

185

Can you trust Rachel Reeves' spending review numbers?

186

Introducing... The Wargame

187

How risky is Rachel Reeves' winter fuel U-turn?

188

Has Trump betrayed Starmer steel deal?

189

Who's the public's favourite (and least favourite) cabinet member?

190

Starmer puts UK on war footing

191

"Chancellor Gordon Brown" Returns

192

Rayner tells Reeves she’s wrong

193

Kemi’s Tories drop to 4th

194

Does the great EU reset work?

195

Keir Starmer faces friendly fire

196

How fishy is Macron’s state visit?

197

Nigel Farage’s migration mystery

198

Is this Keir Starmer’s biggest week as PM?

199

Starmer wins Trump deal race

200

Starmer plan challenged by Red Wall MPs

201

Starmer’s Reform funk

202

Results special: What changes after Nigel Farage’s big night?

203

Tony Blair targets Ed Miliband

204

Trump or Carney – will Starmer have to choose?

205

The rumble: Yvette Cooper vs Rachel Reeves

206

Rachel Reeves in MAGA-Land

207

Robert Jenrick’s leaked plan for Reform

208

Making Rachel Reeves great again

209

The art of the steel

210

Sam and PM – what did Starmer actually mean?

211

Starmer can see no quick Trump deal

212

Starmer’s vindication day?

213

Starmer holds fire on Trump’s Liberation Day

214

Are you in the right cabinet gang?

215

Has Starmer played Trump right?

216

Trump undermines Rachel Reeves' big day

217

Spring statement: Reeves' eleventh hour blackhole

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Starmer’s 8 days to convince Trump

219

What's in Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement?

220

Badenoch v Farage: I’m a Celeb slapdown

221

The Trump-Putin friendship goes on ice

222

Kemi breaks the net zero spell

223

The Starmer backlash

224

When is Keir Starmer's first reshuffle?

225

Starmer and Trump – best of frenemies?

226

Keir the builder - can he fix it?

227

Farage gets tough

228

Fire alarm in the classroom

229

The plan to save Rachel Reeves

230

Trump tanks Starmer’s plan

231

The case for and against Keir Starmer’s intervention

232

Starmer to walk Trump tightrope

233

New slogan, same Starmer?

234

Kemi v Boris

235

Trump makes Starmer’s life harder

236

Can Starmer save Ukraine?

237

Happy Birthday Rachel Reeves

238

Heathrow’s long take-off

239

Starmer vs bats

240

Trump, tariffs and Germany: Do populists rule the world?

241

Starmer goes nuclear

242

Trump raises Starmer’s least favourite subject

243

Is Keir Starmer Trump's new bestie?

244

Starmer dodges tariffs... But for how long?

245

John Prescott and the pork pie

246

Is Rachel Reeves ignoring the North?

247

Questions over assisted dying

248

The week Starmer hands control to Reeves

249

Starmer versus the blockers

250

The Rachel Reeves fightback

251

Starmer addresses Southport failings

252

Trump upends everything

253

Jack leaves Sam

254

Is Keir Starmer really in control?

255

Has Rachel Reeves run out of money?

256

How Elon Musk took over British politics

257

Can Keir Starmer silence Elon Musk?

258

What will happen in 2025?

259

Starmer's pre-Christmas grilling?

260

Will train strikes derail Keir Starmer?

261

Starmer's Final Foreign Trip

262

Starmer and the ‘Spy’

263

Keir Starmer v The Home Counties

264

Kemi Badenoch versus the world

265

Does Rachel Reeves need an Elon Musk?

266

Britain holds its breath on Syria

267

Explaining Keir Starmer’s Big Speech

268

Is Nigel Farage now at the heart of the establishment?

269

Who is Trump's new man in London?

270

Why Keir Starmer is making big new promises

271

Why Keir Starmer can thank the Tories

272

PMQs: Is Keir scared of Kemi?

273

Is Rachel Reeves telling the truth?

274

Is Rachel Reeves the new Margaret Thatcher?

275

What has Labour learned from Prescott?

276

Donald Trump comes to Britain

277

Jack goes to Washington

278

Starmer racks up more air miles

279

How does Labour avoid the Democrats' fate?

280

Is Blairism back?

281

What Keir Starmer learned from Donald Trump

282

Is Keir Starmer spending too much time abroad?

283

How will Starmer get ready for President Trump?

284

How Donald Trump will change British politics

285

USA ‘24: How Britain is preparing for Trump or Harris

286

Why Keir Starmer’s new migration policy sounds just like the last one

287

Budget '24: Rachel Reeves' £70bn gamble

288

Budget ‘24: Everything you need to know

289

Budget '24: The broken promise budget?

290

Why everything in the budget has leaked

291

The battle of the summits?

292

Donald Trump v Keir Starmer

293

Starmer's get out of jail free card

294

Budget goes pop

295

The cabinet hits back at Rachel Reeves

296

The impossible politics of assisted dying

297

Is Rachel Reeves breaking her promise?

298

Keir Starmer goes full Rishi

299

A £25 Billion Problem

300

Rachel Reeves U-turn?

301

Labour 2.0 begins

302

All change in Number 10

303

Payback time

304

After the missiles strike

305

The Return Of The Nasty Party?

306

Everyone versus Kemi

307

Starmer's impossible juggling act

308

Starmer warns of war

309

Keir Starmer takes the stage

310

Can Rachel Reeves save the day?

311

Government of self-service?

312

The risk of all-out war

313

Is Keir Starmer in trouble over frockgate?

314

Can Keir smash the gangs?

315

Did the Tories break the NHS?

316

What Trump v Harris means for Britain

317

Starmer’s first test

318

Rachel Reeves v the rebels

319

Prepare for Tory skulduggery

320

Did politics fail Grenfell?

321

Keir’s big black hole

322

Keir Starmer's education revolution

323

Keir Partners with the King

324

Starmer and The Seven Rebels

325

Tale of two leadership contests

326

Starmer reacts to Biden quitting

327

Europe comes to Starmer

328

Starmer's first King's speech

329

Starmer appoints Trump staffer

330

Keir’s coming home

331

Keir scores at the White House

332

Keir meets Joe

333

Starmer flies to Washington

334

Starmer tackles the s*** list

335

Keir gets going

336

Labour's landslide victory - can it get any worse for the Tories?

337

Last-minute tightening?

338

Labour and the Conservatives look to the future

339

Election week begins

340

The last weekend

341

One week to go

342

The final head-to-head

343

A Japanese Pause

344

10 Days To Go

345

Don't bet on Rishi

346

Tories party amid poll wipeout

347

Will inflation save Rishi Sunak?

348

Rishi's 'blank cheque' warning

349

Nigel Farage launches his ”manifesto”

350

The Day... A poll made everyone uneasy

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The Day... Labour launches their manifesto

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The Day... Of the biggest clash yet

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The Day... Of the Tory manifesto launch

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The Day... Rishi resurfaces

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The Day... You needed to turn up for

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The Day... Big election choices must be made

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The Day... After the debate

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The Day... Rishi Sunak hopes again for a reset

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The Day... We talk culture wars and real wars

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The Day... Trump altered British politics

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The Day... Labour finds a bit taxing

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The Week... We eat humble pie for missing the election announcement

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The Week... Rishi Sunak hopes for an economic win

364

The Week… Rishi Sunak questions if we’d be safe under Labour

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The week... That Rishi Sunak looks on the bright side

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The Week.. The local elections might throw up a surprise

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The Week... Rishi tries to save his skin

368

The Week... After Iran’s attack on Israel

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The Week... Britain faced up to big threats

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The Week... Rishi Sunak faces down his party

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The Week... The government decides who is an extremist

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The Week... of the Budget

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Introducing… Electoral Dysfunction

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The Week... Politics gets even more toxic

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The Week... Britain hits back over Navalny

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The Week... Rishi Sunak could face double disaster

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The Week... Ministers try to avert war

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The Week... Rishi takes on The Plot

379

The Week… The Tories talk about tax cuts

380

The Week... the Post Office delivers answers

381

The Week... The election campaign goes up a gear

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The Week... We try to predict all of 2024

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The Week... Before Christmas recess

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The Week... MPs vote on Rishi’s Rwanda legislation

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The Week... Boris Johnson’s at the COVID inquiry

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The Week... Rishi and the King go to Dubai

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The Week... of the Autumn Statement

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The Week... Rishi Sunak has a Suella Braverman conundrum

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The Week... Parliament is back with the King's Speech

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The Week... of Dominic Cummings’ return

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The Week… of the 'Rishi-versary'

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The Week... Israel went to war

393

The Week... of the Labour Party conference

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The Week... of the Conservative Party conference

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