The age of five-party politics
Fragmentation leaves Labour facing threats from all sides.
ByKeir Starmer
Keir Rodney Starmer is a Labour Party politician who became Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. He has been MP for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015 and leader of Labour since April 2020. Starmer, born in 1962, studied law at the University of Leeds and Oxford, then became a barrister specialising in human rights. In 2008 he was appointed director of public prosecutions, for a five-year term. Find news, comment, and analysis about him here.
Keir Starmer’s opportunity in crisis
Donald Trump’s tariffs give the Prime Minister the political space to re-examine his government’s fiscal rules and Britain’s relationship with…
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Is Labour ready for recession?
Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves face their greatest test.
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Keir Starmer’s government is becoming a crisis regime
Labour is hemmed in by military and economic enemies – but not every scenario is entirely grim.
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Welcome to the era of Daily Mail socialism
Morgan McSweeney’s relationship with Britain’s most important tabloid is as ideological as it is strategic.
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PMQs review: Kemi Badenoch needs a position on Trump
It’s difficult for the Tory leader to press Keir Starmer on US tariffs when the Conservatives have no alternative.
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Is Keir Starmer falling into the Rwanda trap?
“Stop the boats” helped destroy Rishi Sunak – and now Labour risks repeating his mistake.
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Peacekeepers in a world without peace
What is the point of Keir Starmer’s “coalition of the willing”?
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PMQs review: Starmer is rattled ahead of the Spring Statement
The Prime Minister was too distracted to fight Badenoch back.
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The warfare state needs the welfare state
Labour should argue for defence spending to be ringfenced outside the normal fiscal rules.
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Labour’s halfway-there planning reforms
It’s one thing to reduce the technical power of the Nimbys; it’s quite another to change their cultural impact.
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Britain’s AI delusion
Sacrificing national security or intellectual property for digital progress could leave the country incalculably worse off.
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PMQs review: Diane Abbott rails against Keir Starmer
Once again, Kemi Badenoch was not the biggest challenger to the Prime Minister.
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A Labour welfare revolt is still brewing
As many as 40 of Keir Starmer’s MPs are threatening to rebel against benefit cuts.
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Keir Starmer’s great gamble
Can the Prime Minister keep Labour’s fragile coalition together?
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Keir Starmer’s righteous war against the Blob
The campaign against civil service lethargy draws on a noble tradition of anarchic, anti-bureaucratic socialism.
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Inside Labour’s welfare wars
The party is locked in intense moral and economic debates.
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Labour’s boulevard of broken promises
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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PMQs review: Badenoch arrives unprepared, again
The leader of the opposition was outperformed by the Liberal Democrats’ Ed Davey.
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Ending the welfare trap
Labour must not only make benefits less attractive, but make work more so.
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