Leftwing film-maker claims move by party is because he would ‘not disown those already expelled’The veteran leftwing film-maker Ken Loach has said he has been expelled from the Labour party.Loach, whose films are regarded as landmarks of social realism…
Labour values are meaningless without policies | Letters
Labour must work on more than just its messaging: it must convert its principles into convincing policies, writes Dr Norman Brady, while Philip Wood says the party’s future lies with the neglected under-40sProf Alan Finlayson is right to question Labou…
Forcing people to return to offices is wrongheaded, says Starmer
Labour leader tells Guardian flexible working is one of few good things to have come out of pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMinisters, civil service leaders and employers are “wrongheaded” to be trying to make people…
Tories ‘squandering Olympic legacy’ as school PE declines
Sport England reveals that in some regions a third of children are active for less than 30 minutes a daySuccessive Tory-led governments have been accused of squandering the sporting legacy left by the 2012 Olympics in London, amid evidence that falling…
Labour increases pressure for ‘cronyism’ inquiry into Tory co-chair Ben Elliot
Opposition writes to committee on standards in public life over claims he blurred business and political interestsLabour is intensifying its demands for an inquiry into the activities of the Conservative party’s co-chair after claims that he ran a secr…
Jeremy Corbyn could be reinstated as Labour MP under leftwing challenge to Starmer
Local party branches are being lobbied to back conference move to reinstate whip to the former leaderSupporters of Jeremy Corbyn have drawn up an “urgent” plan that would hand party members the powers to reinstate the former leader as a Labour MP.In a…
Boris Johnson’s approval rating slips to lowest level since he became prime minister
Bad news for the Tories does not necessarily lead to good news for Labour: backing for Keir Starmer is also downBoris Johnson’s personal approval rating has slipped to its lowest level since he became prime minister, according to the latest Opinium pol…
Apsana Begum’s court ordeal is an indictment of Tower Hamlets council | Shami Chakrabarti
We must examine the independence of local bureaucrats, and whether they can be trusted to deal with imprisonable offencesIt could have been a John Grisham novel set in the Chicago of yesteryear. Apsana Begum, Britain’s first hijab-wearing MP, was acqui…
Labour’s preoccupation with ‘values’ is a basic political error | Alan Finlayson
Demands for change are the raw material of politics. Keir Starmer needs to start addressing themLabour leaders love to talk about values. Gordon Brown and Jeremy Corbyn both paid homage to what the latter called “shared majority British values”. Last m…
Labour calls for ‘hard-edged’ end date for oil and gas exploration
Keir Starmer says Labour will not support proposed Cambo oil field as party lays out £30bn green jobs planThe UK must set a “hard-edged timetable” for the cessation of oil and gas exploration, Keir Starmer has said, as he revealed that Labour would not…