Sunak gives Starmer an easy ride at first PMQs
Another week, another Prime Minister’s Questions featuring Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak arguing across the Commons. Except, of course, the…
Has Keir Starmer just empowered the Labour rebels?
Keir Starmer has laid down a marker by suspending seven Labour MPs from the whip. The question is: What sort…
Streeting hammers Tories on NHS
We know that the NHS is broken: Wes Streeting announced that it was now the official policy of this government…
How has Yvette Cooper started as home secretary?
Labour are now making daily pronouncements on the latest policy area where the last government left things in a worse…
How much trouble will the benefit cap row cause Starmer?
If you wanted an idea of where the noisiest opposition to Keir Starmer’s government will come, the list of amendments…
Starmer accuses Tories of ‘dereliction of duty’
Keir Starmer used his press conference at the end of the European Political Community summit to further cement his narrative…
Pat McFadden and Ed Davey probed at Post Office Inquiry
At what point does a minister decide they are being lied to? That was the question Pat McFadden and Ed…
Rishi Sunak looks much happier in opposition
When Rishi Sunak was prime minister, he often appeared merely to be commentating on events, rather than in charge of…
Starmer announces child poverty taskforce to stave off revolt
Keir Starmer has tried to stave off a revolt on the two-child benefit cap by announcing a child poverty taskforce.…
Everything you need to know about the King’s Speech
The big theme of today’s King’s Speech is ‘mission-led’ government, with economic growth, house building, workers’ rights and devolution the…
The two-child benefit cap row is Starmer’s first big test
Can Keir Starmer hold the line on backing the two-child benefit cap? The row about the policy, introduced by the…
How will Starmer keep his backbenchers busy?
One of Keir Starmer’s very nice problems to have is that his majority is so big and many of his…
Spare a thought for our departing MPs
The MPs who lost their seats spent yesterday clearing out their offices. Their passes stop working later this week, and…
Why Wes Streeting is ‘optimistic’ he can win his battle with junior doctors
Wes Streeting has just emerged from his first set of talks with junior doctors over their pay, saying he is…
What Keir Starmer revealed in his first Commons speech as PM
Keir Starmer has just made his first Commons speech as Prime Minister. Both he and Rishi Sunak spoke at the…
Starmer is prioritising experience in picking his ministerial team
Keir Starmer has finally filled the women and equalities brief in his government with Bridget Phillipson and Anneliese Dodds. Phillipson…
Keir Starmer is leaning on experienced ministerial hands
Keir Starmer waited for the football to finish before announcing his latest tranche of ministerial appointments. A few of them…
Labour should ignore the Lib Dems on social care
Politics is a goldfish bowl, and not in the sense that it’s small and everyone is watching you intensely. It’s…
Streeting declares: ‘the NHS is broken’
Wes Streeting has just given a striking statement on arrival at the Department of Health and Social Care in which…
Jeremy Corybn and the rise of the Gaza independents
A counterpoint to the main story of Labour’s election victory is the way Gaza has cost the party at least…
Boris swoops in late to help out Tories
Boris Johnson has tonight made a surprise appearance at a ‘stop the supermajority’ Conservative rally to warn of the dangers…
How will Starmer handle reshuffles?
Will Keir Starmer keep David Lammy on as foreign secretary? That sort of question would not normally be at all…
Who cares what Keir Starmer does with his Friday nights?
As part of their vote-Tory-or-the-kitten-gets-it final push, the Conservatives have spent the past 12 hours pushing the idea that Keir…
Fear and loathing (and door-knocking) with the SNP
The SNP is having a very normal election: its first really normal one in a long time. It’s just short…
Why is Sunak proud of his defensive campaign?
Rishi Sunak isn’t lacking in energy as he goes into his final few days of election campaigning. He is, though,…
