Labour’s precarious triumph
In 2024, the party discovered that winning an election isn’t the same as winning the country.
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PMQs review: Kemi Badenoch misses every target
The Conservative leader strays even further out of her depth in an anticlimactic showdown to end the year.
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PMQs review: Badenoch falls into Reform’s trap
The Tory leader’s attacks on Labour’s immigration plan did more for Nigel Farage than the Conservative Party.
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MPs vote for assisted dying after an emotional debate
This was not parliament as usual.
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Britain needs this assisted dying bill
My brother took his own life while suffering with kidney cancer. No one with a terminal illness should have that…
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Will parliament pass the assisted dying bill?
The closer we get to Friday’s vote, the more uncertain it all feels.
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Why MPs should vote to legalise assisted dying
Maintaining a cruel status quo is not a neutral choice.
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Labour shouldn’t fear the facile general election petition
The party’s communication problem is far greater than some online signatures.
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Labour cannot afford to lose Rosie Duffield
The politician has spent her career advocating for the marginalised. Who will follow her?
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Georgia Gould on a new generation of Labour MPs
The new member for Queen’s Park and Maida Vale brings years of local-government experience to Westminster.
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Why the House of Lords will be hard to abolish
Reform of the upper chamber is one of Keir Starmer’s most important tasks this parliament.
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Inside the Labour Growth Group
Will the new organisation be more than cheerleaders for the party leadership?
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Why MPs are happier when they lose
For some former parliamentarians, the return to civilian life is almost euphoric.
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What we must learn from the infected blood scandal
This failure and its cover-up reveals the harm done by the NHS’s “institutional defensiveness”.
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PMQs review: Sunak and Starmer need to grow up
Government scrutiny is being lost in the attempt to score rhetorical points.
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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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PMQs review: Angela Rayner struggles to change the narrative
Her attempt to focus on the Conservatives’ U-turn on banning no-fault evictions was no match for the gift of political…
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Labour’s waste-finder general
Meg Hillier, chair of the Public Accounts Committee: Britain isn’t corrupt, it’s incompetent.
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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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PMQs review: Rishi Sunak’s unforced errors are destroying Tories’ faith
Keir Starmer pins the Prime Minister into hopeless contortions over Conservative scandals.
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