Peacekeepers in a world without peace
What is the point of Keir Starmer’s “coalition of the willing”?
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.
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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Keir Starmer finally has a vision for Britain
Energised by international events, the Prime Minister has defined his ideas for the state.
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Why Britain isn’t working
How the benefits system became a danger to the economy and a battleground for Labour.
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Labour’s collision course
Keir Starmer is in an economic bind. The fallout could fracture his party.
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Why Starmer will champion a smarter state
Labour knows the centre left has the greatest interest in government working well.
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Keir Starmer’s hollow state
Labour’s planned welfare cuts are further evidence of a government running scared from two political foes: the City and Nigel…
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Europe’s diplomacy problem
If the Americans can talk to the Russians why can't the Europeans?
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Close encounters with Trump
Also this week: victory for Remainers, the staged assault on Zelensky, and 24 hours in Bahrain.
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