Is Keir Starmer losing the plot? Budget cuts, chaos in Number 10, thousands of pounds’ worth of glasses — the bad news just keeps coming. Some say now is the time for positivity.
No joke: critics slam Labour feuding
Seriously: Prime Minister Keir Starmer (left) and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner (right) are hoping to draw a line under the freebies controversy, by adopting a more positive tone at the new government's first annual party conference, in Liverpool. Glossary
Pragmatically - With pragmatism, a way of dealing with problems or situations that focuses on practical approaches and solutions.
EE Cummings - An American poet and author who died in 1962 and was famed for literary experimentation and unconventional punctuation.
Approval ratings - The percentage of respondents to an opinion poll who express approval of someone or something, typically a political figure.
Margaret Thatcher - Britain’s first female prime minister and the longest-serving prime minister of the modern era.
Confected - Made up.