With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory By Julian ...

The murder of Ann Widdecombe has one lesson: both left and right need to detoxify our public discourse ...

Is there any scandal that can stop Nigel Farage? The antics of “Posh George” just don’t matter to some voters By Ben Walker Nigel Farage is in the news again over his financial affairs. A report from ...

Nigel Farage is facing his biggest challenge since he became an MP two years ago after a string of revelations about his ...

An insurgent Blue Labour is colliding with the Treasury and the progressive left. By George Eaton In Margaret Thatcher’s final TV interview with Brian Walden – newly dramatised by Channel 4 – she ...

The Greater Manchester mayor set out his case for “business friendly socialism” By Ethan Croft Andy Burnham has repeated his claim that Britain is too “in hock to the bond markets” and set out his ...

From the archive: Andy Burnham on Peter Mandelson, Iraq and cannabis By Jon Bernstein Andy Burnham, former cabinet minister, is back where he started. Geographically, that is. Kicked out of his ...

The novelist, who died last week aged 87, clung fast to realism during a time of faddish post-structuralists. By Charlotte Stroud AS Byatt, who died last week at the age of 87, had a penchant for ...

Britain has the opportunity to create jobs across the north and Scotland by empowering the NHS and the life sciences sector to drive place-based economic growth By Zubir Ahmed MP As the son of ...

A document circulating among Labour advisers suggests the party fight on “home turf” By Ethan Croft Downing Street is scrambling for new ideas amid a shake-up of the No 10 Policy Unit, which began ...

Finn McRedmond is a staff writer at the New Statesman. finn.mcredmond@newstatesman.co.uk Brits just can’t stop frying the hell out of chickens What does muntjac taste like? The restaurateur keeps ...

Keir Starmer’s swan song has begun. Westminster lies in wait for his most likely successor – the MP for Makerfield – who was absent from the Commons once again this afternoon, during PMQs. In the ...