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    Keir Starmer refuses to back striking NHS nurses

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Keir Starmer has refused to back striking NHS workers, as the main nurses’ union ballots its members for industrial action over pay. In a round of local radio interviews on […] More

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    More than half of voters think Truss and Kwarteng should resign – poll

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email More than half of voters think that prime minister Liz Truss and chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng should resign in the wake of their disastrous mini-Budget, according to a new poll. The […] More

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    Bank of England intervention prevented destructive ‘spiral’ after mini-Budget

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email The Bank of England has said that its intervention last month in the gilt market prevented a “self-reinforcing spiral” following Kwasi Kwarteng’s mini-Budget which could have wiped out the value […] More

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    Tory members ‘subjected to disgusting homophobic abuse’ at LGBT event

    Sign up to the Inside Politics email for your free daily briefing on the biggest stories in UK politics Get our free Inside Politics email Conservative party attendees have been accused of homophobic abuse at an LGBT+ event at the fringes of this week’s annual conference in Birmingham. Several people were removed for allegedly hurling […] More