Lucy Powell said that while campaigning in Lewisham she spoke to ‘a lot of traditional Labour voters who are frustrated’ with how the Government has acted since coming to power last July

A Reform UK spokesman said: "For decades the British people have been betrayed by both Labour and the Conservatives. People have voted election after election for lower taxes and controlled immigration, instead both party's have done the opposite.

I t still pays to have working-class credentials in the Labour Party. The father of Sir Keir Starmer, Britain’s prime minister, was a toolmaker; Sir Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, had a father who drove a bus;

The seat-by-seat poll suggests Reform would win 311 MPs across Britain, while Labour would take 144 seats - a loss of 267 MPs. But in the capital, voters still appear to back Sir Keir Starmer’s party.

The two prime ministers, along with the leader of Iceland and Australia, examined how to deal with U.S. President Donald Trump

LONDON Mayor Sadiq Khan said Andy Burnham had “legitimate concerns” about Sir Keir Starmer’s embattled leadership today.Mr Burnham, who is the mayor of Greater Manchester, made a thinly veiled pitch to replace Sir Keir as PM with a series of headline-grabbing interventions earlier this week.

Trump used a United Nations General Assembly address Tuesday to call Khan a "terrible mayor" and falsely claim London wanted to be governed by Islamic law.

Building has slowed in cities, where it is needed most. In London it has almost ground to a halt. In the second quarter of the year, two-thirds of London boroughs started no projects of 20 or more homes, according to Molior, a consultancy. “When Labour came in it was like morning had broken,” says one developer. “That mood has dissipated.”

Labour councillors in east London have defected to the Greens accusing Sir Keir Starmer’s party of “abandoning its moral compass”. The three Barking and Dagenham councillors will now form the first political opposition to Labour in the borough in over a decade.

London mayor Sadiq Khan called Donald Trump "Islamophobic" and "racist" on Wednesday after the US president appeared to suggest the British politician wanted to introduce sharia law in the UK's

While a new poll shows Reform could win majority government, Anthony Albanese says he’s focused on political parties seeking solutions, not division.

Given recent events, there is much confusion over the Labour Party’s rules about a leadership challenge. The source of this confusion is unclear, but it appears to be a mix of a few factors. First, some commentators have not paid sufficient attention to important changes to the Labour Party rulebook over the past decade.