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Article thumbnail: LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 09: Rachel Reeves MP, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers a speech to party delegates on day two of the Labour Party conference on October 09, 2023 in Liverpool, England. Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves is among Labour MPs and Shadow Ministers addressing delegates on day two of party conference. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
Sebastian Payne

Labour's £28bn problem

The pledge made by the Labour Party for its annual spend on 'green' policies by 2030 is already haunting Rachel Reeves

Sebastian Payne

Rwanda bill is not the new Brexit

Sebastian Payne

Free speech 'protectors' have allowed antisemitism to thrive

Article thumbnail: STRICT EMBARGO - NOT FOR USE BEFORE 22:00 GMT, 29 Nov 2023 - EDITORIAL USE ONLY Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (14236009r) Bushtucker Trial, In Too Deep - Nigel Farage 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' TV Show, Series 23, Australia - 29 Nov 2023
Sebastian Payne

Time for Britain to become a nation of builders once more

Sebastian Payne

Suella Braverman and her supporters have never understood 'Red Wall' voters

Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 Home Secretary Suella Braverman during a briefing before attending a county lines raid with officers from West Midlands Police in Coventry. Officers from Coventry Police joined specialist colleagues to execute five warrants across the city during the raid and shut down several cannabis factories with a combined street value of more than ?850,000. Picture date: Wednesday October 11, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE CountyLines. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: EMBARGOED TO 0001 FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 Home Secretary Suella Braverman during a briefing before attending a county lines raid with officers from West Midlands Police in Coventry. Officers from Coventry Police joined specialist colleagues to execute five warrants across the city during the raid and shut down several cannabis factories with a combined street value of more than ?850,000. Picture date: Wednesday October 11, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE CountyLines. Photo credit should read: Joe Giddens/PA Wire
Article thumbnail: WhatsApp’s prominence in Westminster is back in the news, thanks to the Covid inquiry and the litany of foul messages sent by Dominic Cummings about his colleagues. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: WhatsApp’s prominence in Westminster is back in the news, thanks to the Covid inquiry and the litany of foul messages sent by Dominic Cummings about his colleagues. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: The Prime Minister mooted the risk of technologies humans cannot turn off and urged for joint international action while we still have the chance (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: The Prime Minister mooted the risk of technologies humans cannot turn off and urged for joint international action while we still have the chance (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 18: Demonstrators hold a Palestinian flag as thousands of people take part in a vigil outside Downing Street for the victims of an airstrike on Al-Ahli Al-Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza City and all Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli airstrikes over the last days, in London, United Kingdom on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - OCTOBER 18: Demonstrators hold a Palestinian flag as thousands of people take part in a vigil outside Downing Street for the victims of an airstrike on Al-Ahli Al-Arabi Baptist hospital in Gaza City and all Palestinians who have been killed by Israeli airstrikes over the last days, in London, United Kingdom on October 18, 2023. (Photo by Wiktor Szymanowicz/Anadolu via Getty Images)