This is the introduction to Blighty, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their gaze on the latest developments in Britain. Matthew Holehouse, our British political ...

After a year in power, Keir Starmer appears to be losing not just political weight but material substance, too.

The Prime Minister cuts a dash on the international stage, but at home seems detached from his own administration ...

It has removed subsidies that help pensioners to stay warm during winter, sparking such public anger that Starmer vowed to ...

Today’s Urgent Question in the House of Commons about the state of the economy was dominated by two people who weren’t there: ...

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