Opinion & Analysis

Andy Burnham has made housing his flagship pledge. But the crisis isn’t a shortage of homes – it’s who owns them. Reversing decades of financialised property risks the very crash it was built to prevent, says Brian Green.

Details of a Your Party leadership meeting on 20 July show Jeremy Corbyn’s faction and the party’s officers’ group manoeuvring to ignore no-confidence votes against chair Jenn Forbes, before so many members walked out, the meeting became inquorate.

The new PM says tackling the cost-of-living crisis is his priority, but his first moves – a token VAT cut and a £100m tax break for pub owners – tell a different story. The Left Lane sets out where he could start, from ending Trump’s Iran war to reining in rents and rewarding work, says Alan Story.

Out go Reeves, Lammy and the rest of the Starmer old guard, but with Healey at the Treasury and Mahmood at the Home Office, the new PM’s top team suggests continuity, not the break with neoliberalism Andy Burnham has promised, says Andy Walker.

Will McMahon unpacks Andy Burnham’s leadership acceptance speech, finding a warmer voice and a sharper critique of four decades of Thatcherism and globalisation – undercut by a pledge to be “a pro-business leader” that leaves the real distribution of power untouched.

Having ceded the strait of Hormuz to Iran and Oman, Washington is now gambling with Wall Street to avoid admitting defeat, writes Brian Green.

In this special investigation, Alan Story reveals how a no confidence revolt inside Your Party’s top body has left chair Jenn Forbes isolated, Jeremy Corbyn’s authority in tatters, and the party’s governance teetering on collapse.

As a survivor who has used rape crisis services, Siobhán Ovey is tired of watching her trauma weaponised to justify excluding another vulnerable group.

As NATO leaders gathered in Ankara to plan for war with Russia, tens of thousands are already dying from extreme heat across Europe.

From a shambolic branch launch in Norfolk to the suspension of three CEC members for daring to speak out, Your Party’s descent from 800,000 supporters to fewer than 50,000 looks less like teething trouble and more like terminal decline, says Alan Story.