This was a huge moment for UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, promising to prove the doubters wrong after a bruising set of local election defeats last week. He had a message in his speech today for voters, saying that he accepted personal responsibility for those defeats both on the left and the right to the greens and reform UK. He had a message for his party that he acknowledges the emotional dimension of this defeat and that he is capable of turning policy delivery into a message that wins a general electi ...

It’s easy to pin recent ructions in the gilt market on investor jitters ahead of tomorrow’s local elections in Scotland, Wales and England. But that gives too much credit to political minutiae. The problem is far more serious than that. https://t.co/xku5A76c0n ...