Labour conference
Was Labour conference a success for Starmer?
There is relief in the opposition leader’s office this morning following a broadly warm reception to Keir Starmer’s speech at…
Labour’s bid to lose the next election has begun
Sir Keir stamped the Labour conference with his personality today. And the mark he left was very bland, vague and…
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…
The flaw in Labour's economic attacks
Labour avidly disagrees with the Tories’ plan to fill budget gaps by hiking National Insurance. So what would they do…
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…
Will Spain learn from Scotland in the battle for Catalan separatism?
One of the unforeseen consequences of the reunification of Europe after the Cold War has been a resurgence of independence…
Portrait of the week: Cameron visits UN HQ, Scotland checks its bruises, and a Swede sells his submarine
Home David Cameron, the Prime Minister, visited New York for talks at the United Nations; he said Britain supported the…
