Ethan Croft is a New Statesman political correspondent. The outgoing prime minister said he leaves “with a smile” as his “work is done” The Reform UK leader is facing the biggest fight of his ...

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

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

Andy Burnham is the new leader of the Labour party after the results of the party’s uncontested leadership election were announced on Friday (17 July) afternoon. In a speech to the party faithful at ...

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

Over the course of Andy Burnham’s 25 years in politics the man who is about to become prime minister has said little about foreign policy. Foreign leaders and diplomats tapping up contacts for ...

Maurice Glasman is professor of politics at St Mary’s University, London, and director of the Common Good Foundation. On a journey through Ukraine, the Labour peer identifies the ancient tracks ...

Zack Polanski’s party will take aim at her immigration reforms should she be appointed chancellor By Megan Kenyon The Green Party plans to accuse Shabana Mahmood of “fiscal constraint and economic ...

Can we move past our decade of failure? By Tom McTague In his later life, travelling on the train home one day, the former Conservative Party leader Alec Douglas-Home was approached by an elderly lady ...

The translator of Homer’s classic poem, now adapted for the big screen, explains the text’s enduring power By Tanjil Rashid Daniel Mendelsohn is a literary polymath; he writes memoirs, monographs, ...

After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education? By Ella Dorn The sleepy city of Exeter has become the locus of the country’s fraught battle over ...

Ben Walker is a senior data journalist at the New Statesman and the co-founder of Britain Elects. He needed to be asked twice to write this bio. ben.walker@newstatesman.co.uk More than 5,000 seats are ...