Keir Starmer
Divided they fall
Earlier this summer, a hundred or so Londoners gathered around a solar-powered stage truck at Highbury Fields to celebrate 40…
Paying their way
Labour’s new private donors
Will Sunak and Starmer now ditch their green promises?
Where do the by-election results leave Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer? The Labour leader had been hoping for a victory…
Labour’s reality check
Rishi Sunak goes into the summer holidays in the same position he began the year: 20 points behind in the…
Letters
Joe Shmoe Sir: Your piece ‘Not so special’ (Leading article, 8 July) was right. Joe Biden doesn’t like us and…
Labour vs the unions
The Labour party is preparing for power and the unions are deciding what role they might play. Friend or foe?…
Don’t write off Rishi
Were I sure this was about me alone, I’d hardly bother to mention it: but I may be typical of…
Diary
In Singapore last week, I was asked: do ministers just come in, reach for the dumbest available policy and go…
‘We’re so close’
Cautious optimism at the Labour party conference
Labour surge to 33-point lead over Tories
Today Kwasi Kwarteng attempted to calm concerns in his party over the fallout from the not-so-mini Budget – telling MPs: ‘We…
The problem with nationalising energy
Is nationalisation the vote-winner which Keir Starmer believes it to be? We will find out in due course, but my…
Labour storm ahead of Tories in latest poll
Tonight’s YouGov poll in the Times is brilliant news for Keir Starmer ahead of his conference speech tomorrow. It has…
Revealed: Labour’s tactics to deal with Truss
Keir Starmer tonight told the weekly parliamentary Labour party meeting that ‘we will never underestimate Liz Truss’. The Labour leader…
Angela Rayner ally sacked by Starmer
Sam Tarry, who joined today’s picket line at Euston and gave various interviews from there, has been sacked from the…
Why should anyone trust Keir Starmer?
The last few months have been a godsend for the Labour party. Ten points ahead in the polls, with the…
Why Starmer shouldn’t relaunch
Yesterday’s Times carried a report that will only add to Sir Keir Starmer’s troubles. It quoted several members of the…
Keir Starmer isn’t working
Silence. That is what we heard during Gloria de Piero’s recent focus group which she held for her GB News…
Britain’s national character flaws
Before we start, let’s firmly establish my long-standing affection for the United Kingdom. Why, some of my best friends are…
After Keir
What’s next for Labour – and the Tories?
Barometer
Biergate Sir Keir Starmer was facing the scandal of ‘beergate’. Biergate is a lane in the Lincolnshire village of Grainthorpe.…
A fine mess
The lockdown penalty charges keep coming
Starmer won’t talk about sex and gender. That’s a problem
Sir Keir Starmer doesn’t want to talk about penises. He’s going to have to do it anyway, and he’s not…
Starmer is playing into Iran’s hands
Who was to blame for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe being held captive in Iran? It shouldn’t take a professor of ethics to…
