Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer isn’t Labour’s biggest problem
Keir Starmer has turned a drama into a crisis. The local elections were always going to be difficult for Labour.…
Nine lessons from the elections
Here are the big things I learned from Thursday’s elections and their aftermath. 1. The Scottish parliament will vote to…
Starmer is Labour's Iain Duncan Smith
After a gruelling election campaign the most important thing to do is to have a rest and have a think. Everyone…
Welsh Labour proves again it's a distinctive, winning brand
After the news of a Tory landslide in Hartlepool was announced early Friday morning, senior Welsh Labour figures were worried.…
Can Starmer reverse the horror of Hartlepool?
The Tory victory in Hartlepool, with a swing of 16 per cent and the biggest increase in a governing party’s…
Hartlepool and the theft of the Labour party
When the unthinkable happened in 1882 and England lost a test match on home soil to Australia there followed a…
The dirty truth about ‘sleaze’
‘Sleaze, sleaze, sleaze!’ exclaimed Sir Keir Starmer in Prime Minister’s Questions last week, hoping that a triple serving might stick.…
Starmer will regret his submission to liberal intolerance
Keir Starmer obviously regrets visiting Jesus House last week because of the furore it has caused in his own party.…
Can Starmer overcome his Hartlepool problem?
Labour have picked their candidate in Hartlepool ahead of the rest of the pack. Unfortunately for them, they have chosen…
Starmer’s long game: party repair comes before opposition politics
There’s logic behind the Labour leader’s approach
Unopposed: why is Keir Starmer making life so easy for the PM?
The dangers of the Starmer-Johnson double act
Labour has stumbled into the royal culture war
Given Starmer’s aim of getting red wall voters back on side, Labour should not have touched the Harry and Meghan…
Can Labour capture the spirit of the post-war era?
The right is usually much better than the left at harnessing the awesome power of the folk memories that surround…
Keir Starmer is attacking a Tory party that no longer exists
There has been a bit of a commentariat pile-on against Starmer in the last couple of weeks; not just from…
What Starmer can learn from Miliband's mug
Since becoming Labour leader, Keir Starmer has single-mindedly been trying to persuade red wall voters that Labour is ‘patriotic’, just like…
Mandelson's return is a sign of Labour's problems
It is instructive that, faced with his first wobbles as leader of the opposition, the person Keir Starmer has reached…
Has Brexit already destroyed Labour’s chances?
Part of the soap opera appeal of politics comes from the idea that it is a competitive sport based on…
Can Boris win round his rebel MPs?
The beginning of the end for Theresa May was when she tried to see if she could pass her Brexit…
Have Boris and Starmer worked out each other's weaknesses?
Sir Keir Starmer is continuing to use his Prime Minister’s Questions to build a narrative about the government’s lack of…
Keir Starmer should purge Labour of the far-left
Sir Keir Starmer was having such a good year. He broke cover early on to attack the government’s handling of…
Keir Starmer should welcome a Labour party split
‘A split party will be doomed to defeat,’ says Len McCluskey, with a hint of threat. The left of Labour…
This lockdown comes at a high political cost
Keir Starmer has his first attack line of the next general election campaign. He will say that England’s second lockdown…
What will post-pandemic politics look like?
A few days ago, I came across a group of Tory MPs in a House of Commons corridor looking rather…
Time for me to be more assertive
In the light of recent articles in The Spectator, I think it is vital I should point out here and…
My run-in with the New York Times
It’s never a good sign when you’re watching a scene of street terror in yet another gut-churning YouTube video and…
