Why foreign affairs will define the Starmer era
At the Nato summit, the threat posed by China, Russia and Trump will be impossible to ignore.
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Why Labour is dropping “levelling up”
The Johnsonian gimmick is finally gone.
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What is Labour’s first-week strategy?
Keir Starmer and company are trying to build early momentum.
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Labour must learn to govern like Gove to transform the country
The new cabinet should take inspiration from the last government’s greatest reformer.
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Starmer’s victory speech was a display of humble realism
He wanted to show he understands the scale of the challenge ahead.
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The Conservative catastrophe
The most successful political party in history has always reinvented itself after defeat. Can it do so again?
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Reform candidates are sinister
Nigel Farage’s company-cum-political party is not the answer to any of the UK’s ills.
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The Unthinkable: how Rishi Sunak accidentally won the 2024 general election
A short story in which the PM, to his great surprise, discovers a new purpose.
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Jonathan Reynolds: Business and the centre left are natural partners
The shadow business secretary on Labour’s transformed relationship with industry.
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How to fix a nation
As the country enters a new political era, leading thinkers explain what Labour must do to rebuild a broken Britain.
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Labour’s manifesto is quietly radical
The UK is being offered a change of ideology as well as a change of government.
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What a historic Labour win will mean for Britain
The bigger Keir Starmer’s majority, the faster and more dramatic the impact of his government will be.
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Are Scottish Labour and the Lib Dems planning a coalition?
You could practically see Anas Sarwar and Alex Cole-Hamilton making eyes at one another in the TV debate.
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The seismic radicalism of Nigel Farage
Liberals and mainstream Conservatives loathe him. But he understands something important about the fractious mood in the country.
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The Tories have no hope of avoiding defeat
All Rishi Sunak can do now is try to prevent the electoral wipeout projected by polls.
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What Keir Starmer needs to tell Britain
To win big in the general election, the Labour leader must offer a vision that raises the country’s heart rate.
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Lower inflation figures won’t help Jeremy Hunt
The Chancellor is trapped: convincing voters the economy is improving, while acknowledging they do not feel it.
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Keir Starmer’s real mission: to overhaul how government works
Once in power, Labour’s challenge will be to build a system that functions differently enough for voters to notice.
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HMRC’s hold music has become our unofficial national anthem
Taxpayers spent 800 years listening to the chirpy, hotel-lobby jazz last year; it is driving our country to distraction.
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CCHQ’s email breach is both a literal and metaphorical failure
If you can’t trust the Conservatives with your email address, why should you trust them with anything else?
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