PMQs: the Gavin Williamson scandal makes Rishi Sunak look weak
The Prime Minister’s lacklustre performance in the Common today will not quell disquiet on the Tory backbenches.
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.
Labour to hire attack dogs “willing to get hands dirty” as Starmer prepares for election
The Tony Blair-era aide and media entrepreneur Waheed Alli will lead the party’s fundraising drive.
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Rishi Sunak will never be able to paint Keir Starmer as a regenerated Jeremy Corbyn
It is pretty hard to make the case that the Corbynites are in charge when the man himself is no…
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PMQs: Sunak will need more than tired lines about Brexit and Corbyn to land a blow on Labour
The Prime Minister may want to reopen old wounds, but the opposition is very clearly under different management.
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Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak have more in common than they would like to admit
Both have cast themselves as the antidote to the chaotic leaderships of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.
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There is an unlikely role model for Keir Starmer: Henry Campbell-Bannerman
The Edwardian Liberal prime minister transformed his party’s fortunes and led a great reforming administration.
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Why do the Tories hate north London?
There’s something uncomfortable about how the area has become the butt of Tory jokes about out-of-touch elites.
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Rishi Sunak’s first PMQs exposes his political vulnerabilities
The Prime Minister struggled to defend the reappointment of Suella Braverman and his boast that he took public money out…
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How Keir Starmer plans to take on Rishi Sunak
The Labour leader is seeking a strategy that reflects how different the Prime Minister is from his predecessors.
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How would Labour pay for its spending plans?
A new government could overhaul a tax system that is prejudiced in favour of ownership.
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How to trigger a general election if Boris Johnson returns as prime minister
Labour and the Lib Dems should promise Tory rebels that they won’t stand against them if they vote for an…
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Labour must not be trapped by the politics of national decline or revival
Rather than a politics of imaginary growth rates, we need one of real redistribution to those whose incomes are collapsing.
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Have I Got News For You creator: “Being good on telly is not necessarily a good CV for being prime minister”
Jimmy Mulville, co-founder of Hat Trick Productions, wants no credit for Boris Johnson’s career but wouldn’t have him back on…
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Liz Truss’s resignation shows parliamentary democracy is working, not failing
Until we get our say in a general election, MPs are performing their constitutional duty to judge and penalise failure.
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Labour must not accept austerity 2.0 – there is an alternative
To deliver economic recovery and social justice, the party should offer investment-led growth, not new cuts.
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Liz Truss survived PMQs, but all she has done is buy herself time
The ashen faces of Conservative MPs today suggest they know it's a matter of when she goes, not if.
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The death of global Britain
The Conservative government has long celebrated the UK’s exceptionalism, but this false belief has led the country to ruin
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Which Tory leader would Labour fear the most?
The economic crisis means Team Starmer believes the Tories will struggle under any new leader.
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Labour must prepare to be in power – but with no money
A Keir Starmer government will have to face an unholy economic mess bequeathed by the Tories.
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Sam Tarry’s deselection has inflamed Labour’s factional divisions
Supporters of the victorious Jas Athwal are furious with Ed Miliband and other MPs who endorsed Tarry during the Ilford…
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