Gary Gibbon , Political Editor

He was a giant of the Labour movement, famous for his working class roots, his refusal to play by any rules and for the time he once punched a protestor who lobbed an egg at him during an election trip to North Wales.

Thousands of miles away at the G20 summit in Brazil Sir Keir Starmer said Ukraine must be put in the strongest possible position to win.

Sir Keir Starmer has met President Xi at the G20 summit in Rio – saying he wants Britain to have a “serious and pragmatic” relationship with China.

From women bishops to same-sex marriage, Justin Welby spent his eleven years as head of the Church of England brokering compromises between deeply divided factions in the Anglican church. 

Downing Street has insisted that the Prime Minister would welcome a visit by Mr Trump to the UK, after Sir Keir Starmer described him as a “steadfast supporter” of the special relationship.

Sir Keir Starmer has said Britain and America will continue standing “shoulder to shoulder” after Trump’s election win.

University tuition fees in England are going up for the first time in eight years. From April, the government says they will rise by 3.1%, in line with inflation, to £9,535 a year – accompanied by an equivalent rise in maintenance loans. It’s good news for universities, who’ve been calling for a rise to stop…

After announcing the biggest increases in tax and spending for decades, the Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Sir Keir Starmer have been explaining how the extra money will help the NHS.

The Labour government’s first budget certainly had an element of shock and awe, with the sheer scale of the numbers.

The Prime Minister has warned of a “long and difficult path” to change Britain, using a speech in Birmingham to prepare the ground for a string of tax hikes to come in Wednesday’s budget.

Commonwealth leaders gathering for their heads of government meeting in Samoa have called on the Prime Minister to begin discussions on compensation for Britain’s historic role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

Donald Trump has lodged a complaint after his team picked up a social media post by the Labour party appealing for volunteers to travel to America to help the Democrat campaign.

Only yesterday Conservative MPs put James Cleverly in first place in the third round of the Tory leadership contest, but today they knocked him out of the race.

Conservative MPs have knocked Tom Tugendhat out of the party leadership race. The former Home Secretary James Cleverly is now in the lead, having overtaken his rivals Robert Jenrick and Kemi Badenoch.

Sir Keir Starmer’s new team has started work in Downing Street after yesterday’s sudden departure of his chief of staff Sue Gray. A cabinet minister admitted that the senior civil servant had become a “lightning conductor for criticism” of the Government.