It’s no surprise Keir Starmer’s Labour took in Natalie Elphicke
I too was excited when I heard a Tory MP had defected. Then I remembered who she was.
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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Keir Starmer has recognised that the belief his party has no plan to “stop the boats” is a problem.
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Keir Starmer should be wary of dismissing the Labour left
As the Greens rise, Labour should remember how Ukip and its successors have haunted the Conservatives.
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PMQs review: Natalie Elphicke’s defection to Labour steals the show
There may not be much overlap between her politics and Labour’s, but they do share a disdain for Rishi Sunak.
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What Keir Starmer can learn from John Smith
Labour must beware of complacency, and the voters of Middle England.
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Labour has triumphed but it should reflect too
The voters who abandoned Keir Starmer’s party are an early warning of potential trouble ahead.
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PMQs review: Starmer lets Sunak get away with immigration failures
In attacking the Prime Minister on pensions and National Insurance, the Labour leader missed the open goal.
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What is Starmerism?
The three big ideas powering the next Labour government.
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Mission-driven government: what’s the big idea?
How Labour’s five missions could transform public service delivery.
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PMQs review: Starmer lays a Truss trap for Sunak
The Prime Minister cannot flush his predecessor away – and Labour is taking advantage.
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Can a Labour government avoid early unpopularity?
Shadow cabinet ministers fear the public backlash against a new administration will be swift.
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Rishi Sunak’s shelf life is over
The Prime Minister has failed on his own terms.
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Inside Labour’s foreign policy factory
How Keir Starmer and David Lammy plan to reshape Britain’s role in an age of global upheaval.
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More money isn’t the key to clean power by 2030
Labour's plans for decarbonising the grid rely on private finance and planning reform, not just public investment.
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Why a National Skilling Wage is the route to net zero
The UK needs to start training its workers again.
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The revenge of Sue Gray
From Stormont to partygate, the former civil servant specialised in problematic situations. Now she’s Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.
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Ed Davey: “The Lib Dems and Labour aren’t fighting each other”
The Lib Dem leader on his affinity with Keir Starmer, the rise of Reform UK and what John Rawls knew.
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The battle for Keir Starmer’s soul
As Labour prepares for power, two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future.
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How will Starmer run No 10?
The party leader wants an inner cabinet to help change Downing Street – but reform shouldn’t get in the way…
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Labour’s uneasy victory over Gaza
Shadow cabinet ministers are asking why it took an SNP motion for the party to shift its position.
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