How might Keir Starmer run the country? Look to Labour councils
Labour-led authorities have governed under austerity for more than a decade, with mixed success.
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.
Lisa Nandy fails to take Starmer’s reshuffle hint
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Starmer’s transition from soft-left to Labour right is complete
The shadow cabinet reshuffle confirms his abandonment of the leadership platform he stood on in 2020.
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Starmer’s new shadow cabinet is a Blairite tribute band
The Labour leader’s team is without precedent in the narrowness of its political scope.
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The new shadow environment secretary faces a “key test for Labour”
Steve Reed must take the plunge on nutrient neutrality.
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Keir Starmer’s reshuffle was politically ruthless
The Labour leader has marginalised the soft left and promoted proud Blairites.
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Labour isn’t winning, the Tories are losing
While voters think Labour would do a better job on the cost-of-living crisis, they don’t actually know what the party’s…
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What Lee Anderson forgets about Brian Clough
The Tory MP keeps betraying his Labour roots.
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Why doesn’t football love Keir Starmer?
Talking about the game only makes the Labour leader and politicians look dumb.
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Keir Starmer is refusing to play Rishi Sunak’s game
On immigration, Downing Street wanted a bonfire. Labour brought a fire extinguisher.
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Labour’s caution could turn to radicalism in office
If Keir Starmer makes it to No 10, he will inherit a nation in crisis.
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You Ask Us: is Starmer haunted by Blair, and how do you raise voter turnout?
Anoosh Chakelian and Freddie Hayward answer listener questions on the New Statesman Podcast.
How posh is Keir Starmer? British voters don’t know
A quarter of the public think the Labour leader was privately educated – and some think he inherited his knighthood.
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The war on Jamie Driscoll
Britain’s last Corbynista has fallen foul of Labour’s authoritarian machine.
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Keir Starmer will bury Blairism
In office, circumstances will force the Labour leader to break with his party’s liberal progressivism.
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Keir Starmer, take note: voters want conviction, not austerity redux
On election day, will we think that he fought with passion or shrugged and gave up?
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You Ask Us: Will Keir Starmer introduce electoral reform?
And will Andy Burnham ever be Prime Minister?
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are both trapped
The Prime Minister is hemmed in by the Conservative Party, and the Labour leader is a prisoner of public opinion.
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Labour minister gets an apology over “no money” note – 13 years late
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Tony Blair: “If I was back in front-line politics…”
Labour’s former prime minister on the AI revolution, the curse of Brexit and what Keir Starmer must do to win.
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