EMQs: Keir Starmer’s problem with ministers

Veteran journalist John Sweeney starts this week’s EMQs asking Ed Balls and George Osborne why Farage falls out with all his mates. From Rupert Lowe right back to his Ukip days, the Clacton MP has a long list of former friends turned bitter enemies. Is this part of the grit neede ...  Show more

Foreign affairs took centre stage in British politics this week, with Andy Burnham finally showing where he stands. Ed Balls and George Osborne examine the shake-up in rhetoric to Israel/Gaza, but suggest the policy was already planned by the Starmer government. George wonders wh ...  Show more

Donald Trump has been elected U.S. president defeating Democrat Kamala Harris. It caps a remarkable comeback four years after he was voted out of the White House. At a victory speech, he told supporters in Florida that "America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate". ...  Show more

Did Trump win it or did the Democrats blow it? What are the implications of a second Trump presidency for America and the rest of the world? Has rightwing populism delivered a fatal blow to liberal democracy? Catchup on the last of our three special US election livestreams. Alas ...  Show more

Donald Trump is back. The former US president secured a decisive victory in Tuesday night’s election, and will take back the White House in January. Many believed support from women for Kamala Harris over issues like reproductive rights could decide the election in her favor. So ...  Show more

Donald Trump returns to form in a rambling, divisive, and endless acceptance speech certain to remind swing voters why they don't like him, and to remind Democrats that they can beat him. The question now is, who will be the Democratic nominee to turn the race around? With more a ...  Show more