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Sir Keir Starmer called for a “two-state solution” to the Israel-Hamas conflict during a speech in parliament on Monday, 16 October.The Labour leader appealed for a “Palestinian state alongside a safe and secure Israel” as MPs returned to the Commons following party conferences.”We cannot let Hamas brutality be a catalyst for conflict in the wider region. Engagement between Israel and Arab nations must be strengthened not abandoned,” Sir Keir added.Rishi Sunak “affirmed that the UK continues to support a two-state solution” during a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of Palestinian National Authority, Downing Street said. More

As we near the end of party conference season, chief political commentator John Rentoul answers your questions on what the Labour and Conservative party conferences revealed to us.With a general election scheduled for some time next year, can Labour’s Keir Starmer maintain his lead over Rishi Sunak’s Tories? And could Sunak’s war against imaginary recycling bins be an election winner?Watch more episodes of You Ask The Questions now on Independent TV – across desktop, mobile and connected TV devices. More

Rishi Sunak served breakfast alongside crew aboard a Royal Navy frigate in Sweden on Friday morning (13 October).He became the first prime minister in decades to stay overnight on a Royal Navy vessel, as he travelled to Europe for a security summit.Mr Sunak got a taste of Navy life on the HMS Diamond, waking up early to dish out food to sailors in the morning.He was heard offering up tomatoes and hash browns to the ship’s company and also joked that he slept in the “premium cabin” on Thursday night.The prime minister is in Sweden for the Joint Expeditionary Summit. More

This is the moment a protestor storms the stage and throws glitter all over Keir Starmer during his Labour conference speech.The man rushed on stage at the beginning of the address.He shouts: “We demand a people’s house, we are in crisis – politics needs an update. We are in crisis.”After being interrupted by a heckler, Mr Starmer opened his speech at Labour Party conference by saying: “If he thinks that bothers me he doesn’t know me.“Protest not power, that is why we changed our party conference.” More

Mark Drakeford has told the Labour Party conference that he aims to unseat all Conservative MPs in Wales at the next election.The Welsh Labour leader addressed crowds in Liverpool on Monday 9 October.“As we approach the general election, our ambition is to make Wales once again a country free of Tory MPs,” Mr Drakeford said.“Free of their toxic brand of personal attacks and culture wars, free of a deep hostility to devolution, their casual cruelty and their malign neglect.” More

Rachel Reeves claimed that Liz Truss “is still leading the Conservative Party” despite “being out of Downing Street”.The shadow chancellor took aim at the former prime minister as she made a speech at Labour conference in Liverpool on Monday 9 October.“I’m telling us what we already know, Liz Truss might be out of Downing Street, but she is still leading the Conservative Party,” Ms Reeves said.She went on to say that the “one sensible thing” the Tories announced last week was a phased smoking ban, before joking that the government won’t have any cigarette packets left to write their other policies on. More

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told Welsh delegates at the party’s conference in Liverpool it is “time for change”.As activists gathered for what could be the final Labour conference before the election expected next year, Sir Keir said the party would make the “positive case for change” with a pitch to swing voters that would “weld together” competence and the offer of fresh hope after 13 years of Tory rule.The party’s members gather in Liverpool enjoying consistent double-digit poll leads over the Tories and buoyed by the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election triumph over the SNP, but Sir Keir also warned against complacency. More

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has pledged that the next Labour government will make misogyny a ‘hate crime’.Speaking at the annual Labour Women’s Conference in Liverpool, the British politician began off by saying, “Let’s face it – sometimes it’s tiring being a woman in this world, especially under a Tory Government!”Rayner then went on to state that although it’s hard for impoverished women to get a job at the Palace of Westminster, the Labour government now have more women MPs than men.She added: “Labour is the Party of equality… We’ll make misogyny a hate crime.” More