MORGAN McSweeney has today sensationally quit the government amid growing fury over the Mandelson scandal. But who is the man ...

IF THE full message of Paul Holden’s recently published The Fraud is not getting out and changing how Sir Keir Starmer’s world is perceived, it should be.  This attempt to precis some of its strands, ...

If an election were held tomorrow, Nigel Farage’s party Reform UK would win according to the latest opinion poll data. Data collected over the past three weeks, based on 13,000 samples, suggests if an ...

Could Labour lose Gorton and Denton? Here’s what the polls say - All the candidates for the major parties have been declared ...

What’s really behind Labour’s civil war: John Rentoul answers your questions - ASK ME ANYTHING: In a recent Q&A with Independent readers, chief political commentator John Rentoul argues that Labour’s ...

What does this Welsh Government stand for? Should it exist if it does not make lawful, enforceable decisions?

Newly released documents from the Jeffrey Epstein files include an email summarising a complaint alleging that child "auctions" were held at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home - accusations denied by the ...

JEREMY CORBYN’S intervention in Parliament demanding a public inquiry into Peter Mandelson’s appointment as British ambassador to the United States has crystallised into something far more ...

As the architect of New Labour, Mandelson was the driving force behind the British left's past triumphs. In a career spanning 40 years, the indestructible strategist had survived every scandal. Now, ...

In one exchange in August 2010, two years after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting a minor, Epstein appears to have told an ...

As the Justice Department faced mounting pressure to release the Epstein files last year, FBI employees were compiling what ...

McSweeney, long considered instrumental to the rise of the PM, derived his power and influence from his track record as a political strategist.