The New Statesman has announced record website traffic with more than 2.5 million 'users' visiting the magazine’s website newstatesman.com in October.

This follows an earlier record of 1.84 million unique users in August, the magazine said in a statement (which quoted Google Analytics figures).

Editor Jason Cowley said: “These bumper figures are yet another cause for celebration as we draw near to the end of our centenary year. But these figures are not an outlier: they follow strong growth all year.