Politics

Sir Keir Starmer has denied he and the chancellor misled the public and the cabinet over the state of the UK’s public finances ahead of the budget. The prime minister told Sky News’ political editor Beth Rigby “there was no misleading”, following claims he and Rachel Reeves deliberately said public finances were in a dire…

Zarah Sultana has hit out at the factionalism within Your Party that has been on stark display at its founding conference this weekend. She also slammed “the sight of a Muslim woman being manhandled and dragged out of conference”. Speaking on the main stage, the MP for Coventry South said there have been “witch hunts”…

Anyone playing bingo with the left-wing lexicon would have been sure of a fully marked-off card by the close of Your Party’s founding conference on the banks of the Mersey. Witch hunt – check. Sabotage and intimidation – check. Faceless unelected bureaucrats – HOUSE! Image: Jeremy Corbyn (left) and Zarah Sultana on stage at the…

Your Party will be led by its members rather than a single MP, avoiding a battle between its two co-founders, Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. Members have voted for a collective leadership model rather than a single leadership model, by a margin of 51.6% to 48.4%. There was a big cheer as the result was…

Rachel Reeves is fighting claims that she “lied” to the public about the state of the finances in the run-up to last week’s budget – in which she raised £26bn in taxes. It follows a letter published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the official watchdog which draws up forecasts for the Treasury, published…

Zarah Sultana has boycotted day one of the Your Party Conference over the expulsion of members of left-wing groups. Ms Sultana co-founded Your Party with Jeremy Corbyn in July, but the new movement has been marred with infighting from the outset. There was a row on the eve of conference after it emerged members of…

Jeremy Corbyn has declined to say his Your Party co-founder Zarah Sultana is a friend as supporters of the new grouping gather in Liverpool. Speaking to Sky News on the eve of the conference, Mr Corbyn acknowledged “stresses and strains” in the set-up of the party but said it had become “a lot better in…

👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈 The Office for Budget Responsibility has attracted huge criticism and anger from Chancellor Rachel Reeves, after mistakenly revealing the details of her budget hours before she delivered it. But the watchdog already had its critics. Liz Truss says she never realised how powerful the…

Millions of jobs in some of the most important sectors to the UK economy are at risk of being replaced by AI, according to OBR analysis. Buried deep in the documents published as part of the budget process, estimates show that the financial, insurance and professional services industries are some of the most at risk…

Rachel Reeves needs to “make the case” to voters that extending the freeze on personal income thresholds was the “fairest” way to increase taxes, Baroness Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Sky News political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the Labour peer said the chancellor needed to explain that her decision would “protect…