Calls for a national service programme may win the Conservatives a handful of votes in July – at the cost of alienating an entire generation in the years to come.

Ostensibly, these people are detained to be deported. In truth, they are held because Sunak believes that publicly showing people being taken from their homes in handcuffs and loaded into vans makes for effective campaign footage.

Labour's cautious campaigning is likely to pay off for Keir Starmer. But his first term must be ten times bolder once in power.

As the long-standing Sir Graham Brady prepares to step down at the general election on 4 July - Labour's candidate has suddenly withdrawn from the fight. Where does this leave the race?

My father was given a transfusion infected with HIV—and within five years he, my mother and my baby sister were dead. Those responsible and those complicit must all be held accountable.

With millions of hours of sewage still being discharged into rivers and onto our coasts, announcing 27 wild swimming spots feels like papering over the cracks of a deeply broken system. 

Starmer's speech on Friday is further proof Labour would, actually, be an improvement over the Tories - but in its current form, these changes should only the the beginning of much deeper asylum reform. 

Suella Braverman can rant all she likes: The anti-immigration blitz failed to save Conservative seats in the local elections, and won't work in the general election either. Labour can now afford to go on the attack - rejecting the very premise of immigration as a threat, and focusing on what people really want: a hopeful, positive, inspiring vision for the future. 

1.4 million workers in the UK are living in a constant state of economic “double jeopardy”. Millennials are the most likely to find themselves in this situation - but precarity is not something we can afford to tolerate as a fact of life.

"It takes more than a few projects to address what are deep structural economic and social problems."