Two years into this Government, forty-three Labour and Co-operative MPs sit in the Commons, half of them serve in the Government, and for the first time there is a Labour and Co-operative Prime…

Exclusive: Hampshire police data reveals 22 of 37 detained had been accused or convicted of intimate partner violence Most people arrested during violent protests after the sentencing of Henry Nowak’s murderer had previously been reported to the police for domestic abuse, the Guardian can disclose. Data released by Hampshire police under freedom of information laws shows that 22 of 37 people (59%) detained in Southampton after Vickrum Digwa was jailed for life have also been reported for crimes associated with intimate partner violence. Continue reading...

A tide of purple has swept up Whitehall. Andy Burnham is Britain’s first Labour & Co-operative prime minister — and the start of a decisive shift from centralisers to decentralisers.