Starmer throws down the speechlet after Farage strays off-piste with ‘Truss-style’ economic plans • Starmer says Tories ‘sliding into abyss’ and Reform is main challenger Even the losers get lucky sometimes. This hasn’t been the best few weeks for the prime minister. Headlines dominated by the winter fuel allowance and […]

Conservative party has repeatedly proved able to adapt and reinvent itself – but this time might be different At a carefully staged factory visit rich in pre-written lines, one part of Keir Starmer’s delivery felt entirely unscripted: his insistence that Reform is now his main electoral challenger, rather than a […]

Audiences may have flocked to the Final Reckoning but Tom Cruise’s latest mission ends up being incredibly underwhelming If the title is sincere, and this really is the final reckoning, then it’s been a franchise of two halves. Mission: Impossible diehards tend to underrate the first half (which ran from […]