Keir Starmer
Boris throws his staff under the bus
What possible lines of defence could the Prime Minister come up with after the leaking of footage showing his Downing…
The sleaze row isn't finished yet
Number 10 will have been relieved that the weekend did not bring new stories about Conservative MPs raking in lots…
Rishi in, Keir out: 2020's most popular baby names
Once the popularity of politicians was judged by how many babies they were asked to kiss – now it’s by…
Will Starmer move against the Socialist Campaign Group?
The Conservative party conference begins tomorrow in Manchester. Coming at a time of fuel shortages, tax rises and post-Covid drift,…
Its own opposition: Labour’s conference was all about in-fighting
Labour’s conference was all about in-fighting
Labour’s Scottish problem isn’t going away
Certain questions are eternal and many of them are correspondingly dreary too. ‘How should Labour deal with the SNP?’ and…
The trouble with 'Angiemania'
The most annoying thing about Angela Rayner’s branding of the Tories as ‘scum’ was not that it offended some Tories,…
Starmer is missing a major trick
Labour’s party conference slogan is ‘stronger future together’. It’s sufficiently anodyne that despite it being emblazoned all over a massive…
No, Keir, trans women like me do not have cervixes
Andrew Marr’s question was simple and straightforward, ‘[Is] someone who thinks that only women have a cervix welcome in the…
Starmer secures a narrow victory against the left
Keir Starmer this evening managed to scrape through his reforms to how Labour elects its leader. The victory follows a…
Will this be Keir Starmer’s Kinnock moment?
Next week, when Keir Starmer appears on stage at Labour conference in Brighton, it will be the first time he…
Keir Starmer’s essay is a cliché-ridden disaster
Many years ago, a tabloid newspaper played an unkind prank on the author of a very long and much talked-about…
Keir Starmer: my vision for the future of the Labour party
Below is the full text of Keir Starmer’s essay, published by the Fabian Society, on his vision for the Labour…
Why Boris Johnson’s opponents keep failing
Which Boris Johnson should Labour fight? There is little doubt about the personality traits most left-wing activists think they have…
Floods force Labour reconciliation
The morass of flooding politics have claimed a fair few scalps over the years. Those with long memories will recall the…
Starmer faces a difficult summer
Like Covid data, polling data has a built-in time lag of several days. Those sifting the evidence on coronavirus typically…
Keir Starmer's fundamental problem
Half a century ago, Willie Whitelaw accused Harold Wilson of ‘going around the country stirring up apathy’. I can think…
Boris's cunning has allowed him to share in England's Euro 2020 glory
You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose. That was the formula of legendary New York governor Mario Cuomo and…
How Keir Starmer can rescue his leadership
In January 1990 things looked truly bleak for Alex Ferguson as Manchester United manager. He had not won a trophy…
What does Starmer actually stand for?
The biggest reason Keir Starmer has proved a flop is not that he leads an unelectable rabble, or that Labour’s…
Why Labour should stick with Starmer – even if he loses Batley
Things could be bleak for Labour in the Batley and Spen by-election this Thursday. Throughout an ugly and dispiriting campaign…
Keir Starmer’s days are numbered
I think Keir’s had it. This may not discomfort you terribly, I know. Still less the fact that Labour will…
Labour's worrying descent into communalism
Labour’s candidate in Batley and Spen, Kim Leadbeater, reportedly pulled out of a hustings featuring George Galloway over the weekend.…
How Starmer can beat Boris
How should Keir Starmer deal with a problem like Boris Johnson? Despite the Prime Minister’s mistakes in the handling of…
The progressive imperialism of Keir Starmer’s Palestine policy
There are two ways to look at Sir Keir Starmer’s call for the Prime Minister ‘to press for a renewed…
