It's 48 hours since the Budget. But Kemi Badenoch is still steaming at Rachel Reeves. ‘She seems to think she can create her own alternative reality and that people will just buy it,’ she tells me indignantly. ‘And that’s what I was alluding to in my Budget speech when I said she’s taking the publi»»»

One of the most powerful figures in government has defended Keir Starmer amid a row over gifts from a party donor, saying the prime minister is a man of integrity who is not just delivering a diet of doom and gloom. Pat McFadden spoke out after Starmer faced claims of cronyism and failing to declar»»»