Mission-driven government: what’s the big idea?
How Labour’s five missions could transform public service delivery.
BySir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and lawyer. He has been an MP since 2015 and leader of the Labour Party 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.
How Labour’s five missions could transform public service delivery.
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ByThe Prime Minister has failed on his own terms.
ByHow Keir Starmer and David Lammy plan to reshape Britain’s role in an age of global upheaval.
ByLabour's plans for decarbonising the grid rely on private finance and planning reform, not just public investment.
ByThe UK needs to start training its workers again.
ByFrom Stormont to partygate, the former civil servant specialised in problematic situations. Now she’s Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.
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ByAs Labour prepares for power, two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future.
ByThe party leader wants an inner cabinet to help change Downing Street – but reform shouldn’t get in the way…
ByShadow cabinet ministers are asking why it took an SNP motion for the party to shift its position.
ByRishi Sunak refuses to back Kemi Badenoch in her public spat with the former Post Office head.
ByA landmark new biography portrays the Labour leader as a man with an entirely abnormal drive and a narrow-eyed focus…
ByThe party’s language towards Israel has toughened but its previous conditions for a ceasefire remain.
ByBritain is a nation beset by trauma, and Keir Starmer’s role will be to assuage it.
ByOur largest political parties seem unwilling to invest in a secure, green future.
ByAnother Labour candidate has been suspended for anti-Semitism – is the opposition stalling?
ByDithering over Azhar Ali’s by-election campaign has reignited the anti-Semitism row and damaged Keir Starmer’s public image.
ByKeir Starmer’s reputation for purging anti-Semitism from the party has been diminished.
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