Want to stop Farage with your vote? At the moment you can’t – and Starmer must fix that | Polly Toynbee

The PM’s in-tray is overflowing. But he can’t afford to neglect the real issue that is distorting our politics and the way we live At home and abroad, Labour and its leader are under siege. Though the Gorton and Denton result is history now, the repercussions roil his party and underpin the fight for its future. Abroad, the policy rift within the Labour tribe is just as bad, with the fear that the party will be dragged backwards into the wreckage of another illegal war in the Middle East. Yet...

By Polly Toynbee

The choice before the Labour Party

We cannot afford the luxury of another failed government

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Trump belittles Starmer with 'no Churchill' jibe but can the special relationship recover?

The remarks came amid a row over the refusal to permit the use of UK bases for the initial US-Israel strikes.