H olding a Palestine flag above his head, a bald, bearded protester in a suit began shouting at Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, as she spoke at Labour’s annual conference in Liverpool. “After two years of genocide, mass starvation of Palestinians” he bellowed, before Ms Reeves cut him off.

Britain's ruling Labour party gathers for its annual meeting on Sunday, with under-fire Prime Minister Keir Starmer battling to convince nervous lawmakers that he is the right leader to fend off soaring support for the hard right.

LONDON — He is the U.K.'s most unpopular leader on record — more disliked, polls say, than even Liz Truss, the woman famously outlasted by a lettuce. Little over a year after he won a historic landslide victory, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces what could be a make-or-break moment as he fights for his political future.

Motion commits future Labour government to series of hard-line measures, including using 'all means reasonably available' to prevent commission of genocide in Gaza - Anadolu Ajansı

With the populist Reform UK party running way ahead in polls, several Labour lawmakers fear they have lost the support of many Britons and worry they have little chance of winning them back before the next election due, at the latest, in 2029.

Today's (Monday) main event is a speech from Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who will vow to invest in Britain’s renewal to build an economy that works for working people. We will bring you updates from the big speeches and fringe events at ACC Liverpool throughout the conference until it all wraps up on Wednesday morning.

Around the window shelf of Sharon Graham’s office are cards of thanks and congratulation. They are from what middle-class politicians from north London often awkwardly describe as “ordinary working people”,

“The Conservative Party is over, over as a national party, over as the principal opposition to the left,” MP Danny Kruger said earlier this month after defecting to Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist Reform UK.