The Chancellor promised not to raise taxes again but she's run out of options and lost control over her own brief.

Later, keep your eyes peeled for a video presented by BBC Verify’s Olga Robinson. She’ll be talking you through the details ...

A year after their landslide win, Labour finds itself reeling from internal revolt, public backlash over welfare reforms, and unprecedented ...

MacDonald was undoubtedly a remarkable man. Lenin despised him as a mere bourgeois reformist, but to be despised by Lenin was a mark of human decency. MacDonald was born in the Highlands of Scotland ...

David Torrance assesses Ramsay MacDonald as the first Labour prime minister in 1924, exploring how he navigates the tensions between radicalism and respectability within the party. Show more It's ...

When Ramsay MacDonald became prime minister 100 years ago today, he took the values instilled in him from his Lossiemouth upbringing and put them on a national stage.

This the MacDonald family politely refused. For years Ramsay MacDonald had hoped to be buried in his beloved Lossiemouth, beside his still more beloved wife, Margaret Ethel, who died in 1911.

Watch Tom Sheldrick's report. It is 100 years since Ramsay MacDonald became the first Labour Prime Minister and the politician continues to divide opinion today.

Onetime (Jan. Nov. 1924) Labor Premier James Ramsay Macdonald, now on pleasure bent in the U. S. (TiME, April 18) visited the scene of his honeymoon at Concord, Mass., last week; but received while ...