James Alderman
James leads the Journal's political coverage from Westminster: the Government, the Opposition, and the workings of Parliament.
Stories by James
Sun probe: Labour MPs took almost £300,000 of UAE and Manchester City hospitality
Almost £275,000 of UAE-funded trips and £14,000 of Manchester City tickets and hospitality went to Labour politicians, a Sun investigation found, raising fresh questions about the party's links to the Gulf state weeks after City's guilty verdict.
Labour holds Holborn and St Pancras as Abdi-Wali defeats Green leader Polanski
Sagal Abdi-Wali took 12,292 votes to Zack Polanski’s 8,928 in the first by-election of Andy Burnham’s premiership, as a 13-point swing to the Greens fell short in Keir Starmer’s old seat.
Badenoch launches ‘The Right Way’ as Tories open Birmingham conference on an election footing
The Conservative leader declared her party the home of “common sense” and unveiled a 95-page policy booklet setting out tax cuts, a smaller state and 50,000 new prison places, as senior Tories talked openly of a possible snap election.
Burnham puts EU rejoining on the table, saying Brexit has done more harm than good
The Prime Minister told the BBC that Britain should weigh every option for its future relationship with the EU, from the status quo to a customs union, the single market, or going “all the way”, and promised to lay out the choices around November’s UK-EU summit.
How Westminster works
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Burnham’s first conference as Prime Minister: the week that will define his premiership
Two months after succeeding Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham faces his first Labour conference as leader, with the economy stalling, small boats at a yearly high and a Budget a month away.