Wes Streeting and Andy Burnham have unleashed a perilous summer for Labour driven by panic, miscalculation and naked ambition

After Labour’s evisceration in the polls, the party needs to back its leader or sack him. They will probably do neither.

The government has been crushed while Reform surges. But are the results bad enough to force Sir Keir Starmer out of office?

Cabinet ministers warn that there’ll be an eruption of anger within their party when Thursday’s election results start coming in

In the wake of the terror attacks in Golders Green, what can Britain do to stop antisemitic violence? With a historic marathon record broken, how did Sabastian Sawe achieve his sub 2-hour time? And as the May elections approach, exactly how bad are Labour's prospects? Giles Whittell is joined by The Observer's Jeevan Vasagar, Jess Hayden and Andrew Rawnsley as they battle it out and pitch the top stories of the day.  Live at The Royal Society of Arts!  

Hailed as an antidote to the Tories’ lurid psychodrama, the prime minister now faces despair over his own leadership

On a stroll with her greyhounds, the Green party’s newest MP talks about how Labour lost its way, getting her hands dirty, and why parliament is ‘bonkers’

The prime minister’s excuse for misleading parliament is that he was kept in the dark – an abject alibi, but it’s the best he’s got

Hard lessons and harsher realities are steering us back towards our neighbours. Sadly, mistrust remains the biggest barrier

Easter was supposed to be when the UK turned an economic corner and anger at Labour abated. That rosy scenario is dead

The byelection humiliation is the harbinger of a cataclysmic night for Sir Keir Starmer in the May elections

Keir Starmer wouldn’t be the first prime minister to help the royals weather storms that might have finished them

The prime minister is safe for now. But with rivals circling and dire opinion polls, his tenure is still far from assured

Fierce questions about the prime minister’s judgment are daggers to the heart of what is supposed to be his core brand

The disgraced ex-peer has fallen on his sword and handed in his ermine, but a police investigation means this story has further to run… to Keir Starmer’s dismay

The growing list of defectors suggests Nigel Farage’s party is less an insurgency than a refuge for the least appealing Conservatives

The mayor of Manchester’s bid to return to Westminster will be a test for Labour and for Keir Starmer’s authority

The US president brutally mocked most of his Nato ‘allies’ in his Davos speech, while conceding he does not intend to bomb his way into Greenland

The rancour unleashed by Robert Jenrick’s defection exposes a battle that has become intensely bitter and personal

The Tory leader’s sacking of her rival over ‘irrefutable evidence’ he was plotting to defect to Reform may ruin his and Nigel Farage’s plans, but the infighting will harm her party