What Keir Starmer revealed in his first Commons speech as PM
Keir Starmer has just made his first Commons speech as Prime Minister. Both he and Rishi Sunak spoke at the…
Starmer is prioritising experience in picking his ministerial team
Keir Starmer has finally filled the women and equalities brief in his government with Bridget Phillipson and Anneliese Dodds. Phillipson…
Keir Starmer is leaning on experienced ministerial hands
Keir Starmer waited for the football to finish before announcing his latest tranche of ministerial appointments. A few of them…
Labour should ignore the Lib Dems on social care
Politics is a goldfish bowl, and not in the sense that it’s small and everyone is watching you intensely. It’s…
Streeting declares: ‘the NHS is broken’
Wes Streeting has just given a striking statement on arrival at the Department of Health and Social Care in which…
Jeremy Corybn and the rise of the Gaza independents
A counterpoint to the main story of Labour’s election victory is the way Gaza has cost the party at least…
Boris swoops in late to help out Tories
Boris Johnson has tonight made a surprise appearance at a ‘stop the supermajority’ Conservative rally to warn of the dangers…
How will Starmer handle reshuffles?
Will Keir Starmer keep David Lammy on as foreign secretary? That sort of question would not normally be at all…
Who cares what Keir Starmer does with his Friday nights?
As part of their vote-Tory-or-the-kitten-gets-it final push, the Conservatives have spent the past 12 hours pushing the idea that Keir…
Fear and loathing (and door-knocking) with the SNP
The SNP is having a very normal election: its first really normal one in a long time. It’s just short…
Why is Sunak proud of his defensive campaign?
Rishi Sunak isn’t lacking in energy as he goes into his final few days of election campaigning. He is, though,…
The pointlessness of the junior doctors’ strike
Junior doctors are back out on strike in England today, walking out this morning for five days. The timing of…
Why is Mel Stride always doing the broadcast round?
It’s a day ending in ‘y’, so it must be time for Mel Stride to make one of his appearances…
Steve Baker speaks as though the Tories have already lost
It’s pretty unusual to hear a minister speaking during this election campaign: other than Mel Stride, the rest seem to…
Farage’s Putin comments could trip him up
‘You know what I am! I’m a fighter, I’m a warrior, I’m a campaigner. I stand up against big institutions…
Starmer looks slippery over Corbyn questions
It’s a measure of how weird the past few years in British politics have been that Keir Starmer’s claim that…
Sunak’s best Question Time moment also exposed his weakness
Tonight’s election Question Time programme was probably the best of the campaign in that it gave space for proper discussion…
Labour have treated Rosie Duffield terribly
Should a candidate feel forced to pull out of public hustings events because of concerns about their safety? No, of…
The Tory party’s sums don’t add up
There is, to put it mildly, a lack of candour in this election campaign when it comes to tax rises…
Starmer will keep shtum til 5 July
Tonight Keir Starmer took another look at Labour’s poll lead, threw caution to the wind, and revealed his radical plans…
Who is the real opposition to Labour now?
Nigel Farage tried to claim at the start of Thursday’s TV debate that Reform was the real threat to Keir…
Why Labour’s plans are so vague
Keir Starmer has deliberately pursued a strategy of revealing as little as possible, boasting today that his manifesto didn’t contain…
How will Labour fix a struggling NHS?
The latest NHS waiting figures are without question a problem for Rishi Sunak: they’re going up again for the first…
Sunak’s manifesto is not credible
Rishi Sunak’s manifesto launch was necessarily defensive: the Prime Minister is trying to stem the losses in this election campaign…
Sunak splutters in BBC interview, but Starmer won’t do much better
Rishi Sunak has started to move on from his D-Day blunder. He probably won’t recover from the electoral damage he…
