Sue Gray is to miss the Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Sir Keir Starmer’s influential chief of staff has found herself at the centre of a saga about her pay and Downing Street in-fighting.

‘Waiting for Sue Gray’ became something of a mantra for many politicians towards the end of Boris Johnson’s time in the top job. Then working as a senior civil servant, Sue Gray’s findings ...

From a ‘loveless landslide’ to excessive gloom and a climbdown forced by his own MPs, the UK prime minister has endured a ...

There is a better prime minister in there fighting to get out, but there is every chance his better elements will prevail ...

Sir Keir Starmer insisted that he would plough on with the government's proposed welfare reforms. For Labour MPs, that only made things worse. Today's task for the prime minister and his team: make ...

The Labour Party had not done "enough thinking" about some of its plans before taking office, the former top civil servant ...

Gray, a household name due to her investigation of the Partygate scandal, left her role as Cabinet Office second permanent ...

Sir Keir Starmer's right-hand man warned the Prime Minister that Nigel Farage holds four cards to defeat Labour, a damning ...

Sir Keir faced criticism from some of his own Labour MPs after he said the Britain risked becoming an "island of strangers".

Labour’s setback in the local elections in England in May — when it lost hundreds of seats to Reform — has emboldened McSweeney and other Starmer aides in their attempts to shore up the ruling party’s ...

The prime minister will survive the rebellion over benefits cuts, because he will cave in to his MPs’ demands on welfare – ...