Blair’s advice for Labour fails to engage with inequality, senior party figures say
Andy Burnham and Torsten Bell say the former Labour PM’s essay does not address today’s challengesUK politics live – latest updatesTony Blair’s criticism of the Labour party fails to engage with inequality and the “extremes of austerity”, senior party figures have said.Andy Burnham, mayor of Greater Manchester, who is widely expected to launch a leadership challenge if he wins next month’s Makerfield byelection, said the essay merited a “considered response” and he would set one out on Thursday....
Letter of the week: Total political recall
Andrew Marr finished his latest “At Large” piece by asking this question: are we losing our collective political memory? I’m now 82 and still interested in politics, and my answer, at least for this writer, is: no. I was an only child of parents from Dalston and Hoxton who left school at 14. I was brought up by a grandmother who was in the workhouse from 12 to 14. I listened to my parents talk about the Battle of Cable Street; both were fervent anti-fascists. My grandmother, without intending t...
Biden scrambles to block release of embarrassing secret tapes as Trump unloads with brutal three-word verdict
Biden scrambles to block release of embarrassing secret tapes as Trump unloads with brutal three-word verdict Politics is fast. We're faster. Sign up to the DC Insider newsletter for a front-row seat to Washington... and unlock 3 FREE months of DailyMail+ HERESee more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy PHILLIP NIETO, US POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 14:38, 27 May 2026 | Updated: 14:41, 27 May 2026 e-mail View comments
Trump's DHS chief rocked by wild rumor about his WIFE... as furious staff leak scandalous details about his life of luxury
Trump's DHS chief rocked by wild rumor about his WIFE... as furious staff leak scandalous details about his life of luxury Politics is fast. We're faster. Sign up to the DC Insider newsletter for a front-row seat to Washington... and unlock 3 FREE months of DailyMail+ HEREBy ELINA SHIRAZI, US SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER Published: 14:18, 27 May 2026 | Updated: 14:18, 27 May 2026 e-mail View comments
Tony Blair’s downfall is complete – what a sad, irrelevant end
What a pointless and dispiriting intervention. What a sad move by the most talented politician of his generation. Tony Blair seized the political agenda today with a claim for the future of centrist politics. But he did not sound like Emmanuel Macron or Anthony Giddens. More than anyone, he sounded like Jeremy Corbyn: a man out of time. A relic of the old world with no relevance to the new. He still remembered how to command the agenda. He released his 5,700-word essay to lobby journalists on...
Reform UK spending on Facebook ads surged before May elections
Party spent £252,000 in last two weeks of campaign on its main Facebook pages compared with Labour’s £276,000UK politics live – latest updatesReform UK ramped up the funding and sophistication of its political Facebook ads in the final weeks of campaigning for the May elections, in a sign of the growing financial muscle of Nigel Farage’s party.There were several days in the fortnight before the party’s breakthrough electoral performance when Reform spent more than any other party on the influent...
Paxton hails Trump’s endorsement as ‘most powerful force in politics’ after Texas runoff win – US politics live
Victor who secured Republican nomination for Senate seat praises president after defeating incumbent CornynSign up to the Breaking News US emailHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.Texas attorney-general Ken Paxton said Donald Trump’s endorsement is “the most powerful force in politics” as he comfortably won the Republican nomination for the Senate last night.Christian Menefee defeated Al Green to represent Texas’s newly redrawn 18th congressional district. Green, 78, had served 11 ter...
Humza Yousaf says he hopes Peter Murrell gets ‘hefty’ sentence over embezzlement charges
Former Scottish first minister says scandal cast ‘massive shadow’ over his time as leader, after former party chief executive pleaded guilty to stealing £400,000UK politics live – latest updatesHumza Yousaf, Scotland’s former first minister, has called for Peter Murrell to get a “hefty” jail sentence after he admitted stealing £400,000 from the Scottish National party.Yousaf had been serving as first minister for just eight days when Murrell was arrested in April 2023 at the home he then shared...
Labour must put policy first, politics second, Tony Blair says
Former PM urges party to take a step back and ‘analyse the world’ amid speculation over Keir Starmer’s leadershipTony Blair has continued his attack on the Labour government, saying it should be about “policy first, politics second”.Hours after he published a scathing essay in which he warned that the party’s “almost infinite capacity for self-delusion” meant it was likely to lose the next election, the former prime minister said it should “take a step back, analyse the world.” Continue reading....
When Two Heated Political Issues Descended on One Swing District Town
Marana, Ariz., is used to placid local politics, but the town, in a congressional district held by Juan Ciscomani, has been convulsed by two national issues, A.I. and immigration detention.
As a lifetime NAACP member, it is ‘Out of Bounds’ for playing politics with football
The NAACP, once the vanguard of the fight for equal justice under the law, has launched a campaign called "Out of Bounds." Its goal: pressure Black athletes, fans, and donors to boycott college football programs in southern states over congressional redistricting disputes.What does college football have to do with redistricting? Absolutely nothing. This is not civil rights advocacy. It is the weaponization of a beloved American pastime — and the economic leverage of Black athletic talent — for r...
JONATHAN TURLEY: Rep Goldman is trying to rage bait his way to victory. Can he?
New York Democrat Rep. Dan Goldman is fast becoming the Marie Antoinette of New York politics. As Democratic socialists rage against the privileged elite and promise sweeping welfare programs, Goldman is doubling down on promises of more impeachments and investigations. The ultimate establishment candidate is floundering. He is reportedly more than 20 points behind his Mamdani-endorsed opponent, housing advocate and former Comptroller Brad Lander. It appears that the "let-them-eat impeachments"...
Idli, Chutney And A Leadership Crisis: Karnataka's Breakfast Politics
The fact that a breakfast meeting between the two top leaders of the same party has to be publicly announced does evoke curiosity.
Minister rejects Blair intervention, accusing ex-PM of retreading old arguments – UK politics live
Tony Blair has accused Starmer, Burnham and Streeting of putting Labour’s future at risk amid leadership speculationGood morning. Labour is in the midst of ‘phoney war’ leadership contest. The formal bit has not started yet, but Andy Burnham and Wes Streeting are already actively engaged, Angela Rayner is taking an interest, and Keir Starmer is defending his legacy with renewed vigour. The last thing anyone expected was for Tony Blair to join in.But he has, sort of, with a 5,700-word essay, publ...
The establishment reaction to Andy Burnham’s rise is a sign of the fight to come | Clive Lewis
The old settlement will not politely bow out for its replacement – which is why progressives must take action on these three frontsVery often, I find, science fiction names what politics struggles to. In James SA Corey’s series of novels the Expanse, the violent dystopian streets of Baltimore are given a name for what happens when the old order breaks down faster than people can describe it: the Churn. It is the brutal reorganisation of power, when familiar rules collapse and those who survive a...
What Britain won’t face
Covering British politics today is to be trapped somewhere between despair, horror, outrage and intrigue. We have been in this position for ten years, rotating our cast of premiers, each thrust into the same tempest, each unable to calm it. Perhaps this is nothing new, even if it seems more intense. In 1980, the soon to be leader of the Labour Party, Michael Foot, noted how susceptible the House of Commons was to “those swelling tempers when it converts itself into a mob”. It has been hard not t...
Trump's scorched-earth MAGA takedown jolts Republicans who fear November bloodbath: 'Rome is burning'
Trump's scorched-earth MAGA takedown jolts Republicans who fear November bloodbath: 'Rome is burning'Politics is fast. We're faster. Sign up to the DC Insider newsletter for a front-row seat to Washington... and unlock 3 FREE months of DailyMail+ HERE See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy JON MICHAEL RAASCH, WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT Published: 05:40, 27 May 2026 | Updated: 05:40, 27 May 2026 e-mail View comments
Can Nigel Farage’s Right-Wing Party Win It All in Britain?
Nigel Farage’s anti-immigrant, populist agenda has helped his Reform U.K. Party emerge from the fringe of British politics. But it faces an uphill climb to win power.
Galindo projected to lose Texas Dem House runoff after antisemitism accusations
Politics Maureen Galindo projected to lose Texas Democratic House runoff after antisemitism accusations By Caitlin Yilek Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation. Read Full Bio Caitlin Yilek May 26, 2026 / 10:41 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Johnn...
Teal meets with tech boss and backs tax carve-out the same week the teals called out big tech's influence in politics
Teal meets with tech boss and backs tax carve-out the same week the teals called out big tech's influence in politicsBig tech companies demand carve out from tax changesREAD MORE: Anthony Albanese reveals how much fuel Australia has leftSee more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy NICHOLAS COMINO, POLITICAL REPORTER, AUSTRALIA Published: 03:33, 27 May 2026 | Updated: 03:33, 27 May 2026 e-mail View comments