Starmer fairly boasted that he had changed his party, driven out the anti-Semites and won a landslide election victory.

There were lots of contested takeaways from the Makerfield by-election this week. But the one thing that seems incontrovertible is that almost everyone wanted to get rid of Keir…

In just 48 hours, the PM has felt the weight of political gravity and shifted from initial adamance he would fight on