Robert Cavendish
Robert covers the Labour Party: its conferences, its factions, and the trade union movement.
Stories by Robert
Burnham says Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit vote, a first for a British prime minister
The Prime Minister told The Rest Is Politics podcast he had asked whether Moscow sought to influence the referendum and received "the clear answer that, yes, there was", a direct break with the position of previous governments.
Badenoch to close Tory conference with ‘battle for the soul of this nation’ and tax-cut pitch
The Conservative leader’s keynote will centre on cutting inheritance tax and halving employers’ national insurance for workers aged 21 to 24, paid for from more than £30 billion in welfare savings, under what the party calls its Conservative savings plan.
Griffith pledges a tax cut at every Budget as Tories unveil economic plan
The shadow chancellor told the Birmingham conference he would scrap Labour’s “family homes tax”, back a third runway at Heathrow and lead “the most ambitious deregulation project in a generation”.
Healey promises ‘a new age of industrialisation’ in first conference speech as Chancellor
The Chancellor told Labour’s Liverpool conference that fiscal discipline would underwrite every promise the Government makes, and that the Budget he delivers a month from now would give families and businesses breathing space.