Keir Starmer’s international inspiration
As Labour prepares for power, it is drawing lessons from its sister parties in the US, Australia, Germany and Spain.
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.
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The human rights activist on what the violence and homophobia of the 1983 by-election teaches today’s left.
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Why Keir Starmer’s critics are failing to inflict any damage
The Labour leader’s five “missions” were dismissed by many, but Starmer is undoubtedly improving the party’s electability.
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Labour must escape the death grip of technocracy
In place of Keir Starmer’s “national missions”, Labour needs to rediscover its moral purpose and forge a covenant between citizens…
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Is Keir Starmer setting himself up for failure?
The problem with the Labour leader’s pledge to give the UK the highest growth in the G7 is how little…
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How will Keir Starmer fund his “national missions” for Labour Britain?
The enormous question mark hovering above Rachel Reeves' office is tax policy.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer plays Rishi Sunak and Tory MPs off against each other
The Labour leader’s strategy on the Northern Ireland protocol is to let the Conservative Party cannibalise itself.
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How Labour hopes to restore faith in the police
Sarah Jones, the shadow policing minister, knows what crime feels like. Now she is planning to fight police misogyny and…
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Keir Starmer ignores the housing crisis at his peril
The Labour leader has unveiled his five “national missions”. Housing is nowhere to be seen.
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Keir Starmer plays divide and conquer with Northern Ireland deal
Labour wants a closer relationship with the EU, so it makes sense to get that now while casting Brexiteers as…
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Keir Starmer has most to gain from resolution of the Northern Ireland Protocol
The fury of Brexiteers and unionists at compromise only makes Labour look more like the grown-ups in the room.
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Will being tough on crime decide the next election?
Labour seeks to present itself as the party of law and order.
Margaret Hodge: Confronting anti-Semitism in Labour was harder than fighting the BNP
After 50 years as a politician, the Blairite veteran reflects on Jeremy Corbyn, urges Labour to tax wealth, and says…
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On the Northern Ireland protocol Rishi Sunak must win over the DUP and his own party
The Prime Minister is in Belfast to meet with the DUP, which has refused to form a government until its…
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After Nicola Sturgeon’s departure, Scottish Labour can win big
Labour insiders think the SNP has blown it.
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Will Labour divisions scupper Starmer’s election hopes?
The leader has issued the left of his party with an ultimatum: back me or quit.
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The strange death of the centre right
In Western democracies conventional conservativism is foundering. How did this once-dominant political force become so diminished?
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Australian Labor is showing what progressives can achieve in power
Just as Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese changed his party, Keir Starmer has changed the Labour Party here.
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Labour’s Bolton selection row puts Rayner and Starmer allies at odds
There is outrage over the exclusion of Leigh Drennan, an ally of the party’s deputy leader, from the Bolton North…
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Will Rishi Sunak send fighter jets to Ukraine?
The PM has committed to training Ukrainian pilots, but Zelensky’s visit was really to ask for the planes themselves.
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