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,…
The pointlessness of the junior doctors’ strike
Junior doctors are back out on strike in England today, walking out this morning for five days. The timing of…
Why is Mel Stride always doing the broadcast round?
It’s a day ending in ‘y’, so it must be time for Mel Stride to make one of his appearances…
Steve Baker speaks as though the Tories have already lost
It’s pretty unusual to hear a minister speaking during this election campaign: other than Mel Stride, the rest seem to…
Farage’s Putin comments could trip him up
‘You know what I am! I’m a fighter, I’m a warrior, I’m a campaigner. I stand up against big institutions…
Starmer looks slippery over Corbyn questions
It’s a measure of how weird the past few years in British politics have been that Keir Starmer’s claim that…
Sunak’s best Question Time moment also exposed his weakness
Tonight’s election Question Time programme was probably the best of the campaign in that it gave space for proper discussion…
Labour have treated Rosie Duffield terribly
Should a candidate feel forced to pull out of public hustings events because of concerns about their safety? No, of…
The Tory party’s sums don’t add up
There is, to put it mildly, a lack of candour in this election campaign when it comes to tax rises…
