What’s the point of Labour when there’s less money to spend?
Keir Starmer needs a strategy for an era of economic scarcity.
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.
David Lammy reminds voters that, unlike the Tories, Labour loves the rules
The shadow foreign secretary’s speech today shows a party committed to upholding international obligations.
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Meet the teenagers who crashed Keir Starmer’s speech
“They put us on the stage and were like, ‘Clap at the appropriate time!’ ”
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How Starmer will rethink education
The Labour leader lays out the party’s final mission.
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Labour anger grows over Wes Streeting’s media blitz
Party sources complain that the shadow health secretary was awarded 18 spots in the party’s publicity schedule to promote his…
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“We’re all Blairites now” in the Labour Party
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Is Labour’s Uxbridge by-election campaign in trouble?
Party officials have warned that Sadiq Khan’s Ultra Low Emission Zone is damaging Labour’s chances in Boris Johnson’s former seat.
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Is there any hope for the Labour left?
Socialist MPs and affiliated trade unions will not stay quiet forever.
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Neal Lawson: the Labour Party is a bully
The director of Compass speaks out against his potential expulsion.
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What is Labour’s housing policy?
It wants to be the party of home ownership.
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Is Keir Starmer the British François Hollande?
Boring, safe, centrist – and probably doomed.
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Brexit won’t define the next election – but the one after that is a different story
Another five years of “Bregret” could push Labour in a much more pro-European direction.
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PMQs: Sunak’s housing policies are built on sand
By attacking the Conservatives on homeownership and house-building, Starmer is turning a traditional Tory strength into a weakness.
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Keir Starmer: my mortgage is up too, and Rishi Sunak doesn’t get it
The Labour leader told the New Statesman’s Politics Live that the Prime Minister had never been in the position of…
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Sunak has no right to lecture Starmer on character
The Prime Minister has been an apologist and enabler of Boris Johnson, and only resigned when it was politically convenient.
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Starmer vs the machine: how Labour would regulate tech
The opposition leader seems less comfortable on AI than Rishi Sunak, but his tech policy is taking shape.
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How Labour can solve its borrowing problem
The lessons from Bidenomics are as much about politics as economics.
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To achieve net zero, Labour needs to break with market coordination
Public institutions such as GB Energy and the green National Wealth Fund must lead the green investment push.
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Why Labour is getting its political messaging right
A new survey suggests British voters want security and control – precisely the qualities the party has been trying to…
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Culture is everything – and if Labour is to win us over, it needs to rediscover its own
To have a chance of long-term success in office, Keir Starmer needs affection and support.
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