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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Keir Starmer has conquered his party. Now what?
Within Labour, the leader is “lord of all he surveys”. But he still needs to define what that is exactly.
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Neil Kinnock: “It’s not 1992. Rishi Sunak is no John Major”
The former Labour leader on life after his wife Glenys’s death, Keir Starmer’s election strategy, and becoming Joe Biden’s “greatest…
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“Long Corbyn” is shaping Labour’s judgements on the Middle East
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Among the believers
Labour gathers in Liverpool as a government-in-waiting. But can Keir Starmer negotiate the traps being set for him?
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The Starmer conundrum
Even those who work with the Labour leader ask: deep down, what does he stand for?
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I would never have been selected in Starmer’s Labour
A new wave of intolerance is sweeping the party as independent-minded candidates are barred.
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Keir Starmer: This is what I believe
Why we need a new mission-driven politics to renew Britain and defeat the enemies of progress.
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It’s beginning to feel like 1997 again
The last time Tories lost middle-class bastions like Tunbridge Wells, they were wiped out.
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What Keir Starmer has learnt from the return of the German Social Democrats
To win back Red Wall voters, Labour needs a single word to define the party and its purpose. That word…
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Where is Keir Starmer’s book?
The Labour leader appears to be suffering from writer’s block.
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The left can’t shape Starmerism – it must resist it
Socialists cannot simply decide whether or not to pick a fight with the Labour leader – he has continually fought…
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Can Starmer take back control of “take back control”?
If promising to wrench power from elites worked for Brexit, it could work for Labour.
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This week showed why Labour really could win the next election
Keir Starmer’s speech proved that his party has the edge over Rishi Sunak’s exhausted Conservatives.
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Labour’s attempt to make “take back control” its own could win back Brexit voters
In his New Year speech, Keir Starmer retold the Leave vote as a call for greater devolution.
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Keir Starmer takes the fight to the Tories by stealing their slogans
The Labour leader is promising to help voters “take back control” over their communities.
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Keir Starmer promises to deliver “the politics Britain deserves”
In his first major speech this year, the leader of the opposition will set out his vision for the UK…
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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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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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Labour’s constitutional radicalism is what a broken system needs
Too much of our political class has become timid or borderline corrupt. It’s time to redistribute power and abolish the…
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