Keir Starmer

Corbyn’s new party is Starmer’s creation

12 July 2025 9:00 am

Have you ever been to an activist meeting? A proper one, not a cocktail party for potential donors. If Keir…

The reign of Rayner

12 July 2025 9:00 am

Angela Rayner declined an invitation to a hen do last weekend where the entertainment included axe-throwing. ‘She was worried about…

How Labour governments always end

5 July 2025 9:00 am

Couldn’t we just skip to the end? I’m old enough to have seen this so often: must I sit through…

The politics of pips

5 July 2025 9:00 am

‘What larks!’ exclaimed my husband archly, assuming that a connection between personal independence payments and Pip in Great Expectations would…

The politics of ‘rocket boosters’

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Sir Keir Starmer said the other day that he wanted to put rocket boosters under AI. It’s not the only…

Starmer’s war zone: the Prime Minister is in a perilous position

21 June 2025 9:00 am

Sir Keir Starmer was alerted in the early hours of Friday by his national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, that Israel’s…

Portrait of the week: Liverpool parade crash, Starmer sacrifices Chagos Islands and an octopus invasion

31 May 2025 9:00 am

Home Sir Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, announced that ‘more pensioners’ would qualify for winter fuel payments, but did not…

Starmer vs the workers: the real Brexit betrayal

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Keir Starmer looked blank. The shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, seemed confused. Only the old Stalinist Seumas Milne seemed really to…

Labour must learn to love Brexit

24 May 2025 9:00 am

The problem with Keir Starmer’s approach to Brexit is that it fundamentally misunderstands the country. It isn’t that the Leave-voting…

What do ‘Labour values’ actually mean?

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Keir Starmer’s appearance before Labour MPs on Monday was a crowded affair. Such was the level of excitement that organisers…

Reform and the problem with the Overton window

24 May 2025 9:00 am

In the space of about one month a further 9 per cent of the electorate has decided that the views…

Kemi Badenoch now leads the ‘Tinkerbell Tories’

17 May 2025 9:00 am

Market choice has long been an article of faith in the Conservative party. But the Tories are less keen on…

The changing face of Nigel Farage

10 May 2025 9:00 am

On Monday night, a hundred Reform staff and donors met at a Marylebone pub to toast the local election results.…

Reform vs Labour: who’ll win the battle for the north?

19 April 2025 9:00 am

When MPs and peers were recalled to parliament for an emergency debate on renationalising British Steel, one man was the…

How Starmer plans to weather Trump’s storm

12 April 2025 9:00 am

Since Donald Trump returned to the White House, Keir Starmer has struggled to set the agenda. The latest attempt came…

Keir Starmer must look beyond adolescent politics

5 April 2025 9:00 am

An industry poll by the British Film Institute in 2000 to find Britain’s best television programme put Fawlty Towers first…

Labour needs a sense of social justice

5 April 2025 9:00 am

Clement Attlee, in the words of Winston Churchill, was a modest man with much to be modest about. Labour’s postwar…

The shape-shifting Labour party

22 March 2025 9:00 am

It is difficult to gauge who is the more discombobulated by the Labour government’s recent Damascene conversion to a political…

Starmer’s tribes are at war

15 March 2025 9:00 am

Labour MPs these days are experiencing whiplash. When in opposition, the party attacked the Tories’ proposed benefits cuts for ‘effectively…

Starmer is the unlikely hero of the hour. Can it last?

8 March 2025 9:00 am

When Donald Trump addressed Congress this week, he declared he was ‘just getting started’. His words will not have soothed…

My faux pas with Washington’s most eligible bachelorette

8 March 2025 9:00 am

To the Queen Anne splendour of the British ambassador’s residence in Washington for Peter Mandelson’s welcome party as our man…

Keir Starmer’s welcome embrace of realism

1 March 2025 9:00 am

Sixty-five years ago, a British Prime Minister acknowledged that a new world order was coming to pass and that it…

Is Keir Starmer really Morgan McSweeney’s puppet?

1 March 2025 9:00 am

Two lobby journalists portray the PM as the pawn of ‘the Irishman’ and as ‘a passenger on a train driven by others’ – but there is much more to Starmer than that

Starmer’s Scottish headache

22 February 2025 9:00 am

What does a party get after nearly two decades in office, collapsing public services, an internal civil war and a…