We head into 2025 with quite the assembly of cocktail ingredients - a flatlining economy, an impatient electorate and a volatile world.

Sir Keir Starmer is invited to an EU summit in February - the first of its type since the Brexit negotiations.

The prime minister writes to regulators including Ofgem and Ofwat for ideas to boost economic growth.

Nick Starmer has died after being diagnosed with cancer.

Sue Gray will join the House of Lords two months after she left her role as the PM's chief of staff.

Local authorities across England will be given a share of £1.6bn to fix potholes and maintain roads.

The prime minister defended a string of controversial policy decisions since Labour took power.

Burnham says he cannot defend the "wrong" decision after compensation was supported in opposition.