In this time of conflict, I recall my late mother’s Christian wisdom and kindness
Although we often disagreed about politics, she taught me that in this age of frenzy it’s safer to be slow…
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.
Did the Speaker overstep when he criticised Labour’s plans to abolish the House of Lords?
Lindsay Hoyle has raised eyebrows by commenting on a party political issue.
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Rishi Sunak, like Keir Starmer, sees the strength in being boring
The Prime Minister addressed select committee chairs as though reading from a No10 press release.
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Keir Starmer takes aim at Andy Burnham at Labour’s Christmas drinks
The Labour leader quipped that Burnham had seen his “boyhood team” Argentina win the World Cup, and his boyhood team…
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Labour’s triumph in the Stretford by-election shows the Tories will need a miracle to win
Keir Starmer’s party victory was consistent with its national poll lead of around 20 points.
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Starmer shouldn’t aim to be a cult leader like Corbyn
Andrew Fisher is wrong – it doesn’t matter if no one would chant “Oh Keir Starmer” at Glastonbury.
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“It’s dangerous for democracy”: Clive Lewis on candidate selection, radicalism and the future of BAME Labour
The left-wing former leadership candidate on where Keir Starmer is going wrong.
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PMQs: Sunak cornered on all sides over NHS strikes
Keir Starmer accused the PM of having “curled up in a ball and gone into hibernation” as a winter crisis…
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“The Tories have given up”: Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll on revitalising the north-east
One of Labour’s “last Corbynistas in power” believes further devolution and left-wing ideas could revolutionise regionalism in the UK.
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Mick Lynch: “Starmer’s Labour could be another version of the Tories”
The RMT general secretary on the case for strikes, the war in Ukraine and why he backed Brexit.
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Labour’s “New Britain” is not as new as it seems
There have been many attempts to rebalance the UK’s economy. Will Gordon Brown’s review be any different?
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Keir Starmer courts industry leaders in an attempt to strengthen the party’s relationship with business
By launching a review into supporting start-ups, Starmer is prepping the ground for a more interventionist state.
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Conor McGinn has Labour whip suspended following complaint
The MP for St Helens North has also been suspended as a party member.
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Can Keir Starmer’s vision of the great “unbinding” of Britain save the Union?
Labour hopes its devolution proposals will hold the country together.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer’s strategy is working
In today’s Conservative Party, MPs feel free to pick and choose which government policies to support. That makes Rishi Sunak…
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Don’t replace the House of Lords – do away with a second chamber altogether
Senates usually end up as constitutional embarrassments.
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Leader: The year of living dangerously
In a new era of permanent crisis, the past 12 months demonstrated the power of leadership – for good and…
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Even in a season of goodwill, I look back in anger at the Tory mess that was 2022
It will take us a long time – far more than a single parliamentary term – to recover.
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Keir Starmer: “Am I aiming to be just a one-term prime minister? No, of course not”
As the Conservative Party unravels, Starmer is plotting a route to No 10. Is he the radical leader the country…
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To forge a “New Britain”, Labour must rethink our economic system
The party pledges to unleash growth in its report on the UK’s political future, but it has missed the point…
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