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Peter Walker

Peter Walker is acting deputy political editor for the Guardian. He is the author of The Miracle Pill

17 September 2024

  • Ed Davey on a jetski

    The Lib Dems need a tight policy focus – but the stunts are here to stay

    The general election result vindicated Ed Davey’s ease with a blunt visual metaphor, but the party also needs to distinguish itself from Labour
  • Ed Davey warned against what he said was a prevailing Treasury bias against significant spending on NHS infrastructure.

    Ed Davey urges ‘faster and bolder’ action on NHS and social care

    Leader tells Lib Dem conference the party will be an antidote to the ‘pessimism and defeatism’ of Starmer
  • MPs at vote

    Labour MPs who missed winter fuel vote given ‘feudal’ warning by whips

    Letter warns abstainers over future conduct, while the one rebel MP apparently retains whip

16 September 2024

  • Ed Davey

    Lib Dems hopeful of more election gains if Tory drift to right continues

  • Starmer gestures as he talks to Hewitt. The two men are seated opposite each other

    Ex-police chief named head of UK’s border security command

15 September 2024

  • Keir Starmer, left, and Wes Streeting hold cups in a hospital

    Assisted dying vote may come soon as No 10 says it would not stop bill

    Opinion heavily split across parties over legalising support for terminally ill people to end their lives

14 September 2024

  • Nigel Farage speaking in the Commons.

    Nigel Farage defends US trip alongside Austrian MEP sympathetic to Russia

    Reform leader listed as main speaker at Chicago event that will also feature Harald Vilimsky of far-right Freedom party

13 September 2024

  • Ed Davey sat at his kitchen table with notebook and mobile phones on a tablecloth featuring birds

    Ed Davey: we can offer better opposition than ‘Punch and Judy’ Tories

  • Half-a-dozen cyclists with a learner bus driver and cars behind them at a pedestrian crossing

    Bike blog
    Pedalling perils: five dangers every UK cyclist needs to watch out for

    Peter Walker

12 September 2024

  • Overhead view of cans of drink

    Keir Starmer ready to face down ‘nanny state’ jibes in radical public health drive

  • Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said government focus was on encouraging pensioners to seek help.

    We did not do impact assessment of winter fuel payment cut, No 10 admits

10 September 2024

  • An older lady holds her hands close to an electric fire

    Today in Focus
    Will Labour’s cold winter of cuts be worth it? – podcast

    Keir Starmer says cutting the universal winter fuel allowance for pensioners is a ‘tough decision’ Labour has to take. But many of his MPs were not happy, as Peter Walker reports
  • A woman in a warm jumper and covered with a blanket trying to keep warm by a radiator.

    Critics of winter fuel payment cut to fight on after government wins vote

    Opponents plan to push ministers to look at extra help for most vulnerable people in England and Wales
  • A man sitting at home with a rug on his knees and a cup of tea

    MPs back cuts to winter fuel payments in Commons vote

    Conservative motion to strike down plan is defeated but more than 50 Labour MPs abstain

9 September 2024

  • Sign reading Have you got your ID? next to hand holding British passport and polling card.

    Britons should be able to use wider range of ID to vote, says watchdog

    Changes proposed after as many as 750,000 people may have been excluded from 2024 election due to lack of documents
  • A senior woman holds a gas bill against the windowsill and puts her hands to a radiator; she is wearing a cardigan and the light suggests it is winter

    Why is Labour’s proposed winter fuel payments cut controversial?

    The decision has become Labour’s first political crisis but is the government likely to change course?
  • A person with an electric heater

    Ministers facing pressure from unions over winter fuel payment cut

    TUC and Unite leaders express ‘real concerns’ over policy as many Labour MPs expected to abstain in Commons vote

8 September 2024

  • James Cleverly speaking at a podium

    Cleverly or Tugendhat would make best PM, poll on Tory leadership candidates shows

    Conservative MPs ratings trail behind Starmer’s as second round of voting for contest to come on Tuesday
  • Idris Elba, wearing black, and Labour leader Keir Starmer, wearing a black shirt and black jacket, meeting families of knife crime victims at the Lyric theatre in Hammersmith, London.

    Keir Starmer and Idris Elba launch project to tackle knife crime ‘national crisis’

    Coalition to Tackle Knife Crime will involve campaigners, young people and victims’ families in England and Wales
  • Rachel Reeves adressing the House of Commons in July

    Up to 50 Labour MPs could rebel over cut to winter fuel allowance

    Dozens said to be considering abstaining from Tuesday’s vote over pensioners’ payments, as PM says dealing with dissent is ‘matter for chief whip’
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