Labour Party

Delightful nostalgia for political wonks: The Gang of Three, at the King’s Head Theatre, reviewed

10 May 2025 9:00 am

The Gang of Three gets into the nitty-gritty of Labour politics in the 1970s. It opens with the resignation of…

Letters: The case for ‘raves in the nave’

12 April 2025 9:00 am

Reality check Sir: While I share Mr Gove’s diagnosis of lodestar-less Starmerism (‘Cruel Labour’, 5 April), I cannot share the…

Labour has once again betrayed grooming gang victims

12 April 2025 9:00 am

Parliament’s last day before recess is usually a dull affair. A one-line whip allows MPs to return to their constituencies…

Leave our Lords alone

12 April 2025 9:00 am

Within a few months, the constitution that has served this country so well for hundreds of years will yet again…

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…

Labour’s popularity contest

29 March 2025 9:00 am

A few months ago, over a plate of bone marrow, a Tory adviser was considering how best to kneecap Labour.…

Sunday shows round-up: Reeves says living standards will increase

23 March 2025 11:51 pm

Rachel Reeves: ‘I’m confident we will see living standards increase’ A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found that…

For Rachel Reeves the worst could be yet to come

23 March 2025 10:41 pm

Rachel Reeves has spent the morning touring the broadcast studios as she attempts to pitch roll for Wednesday’s Spring Statement.…

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…

Kemi’s stance on net zero is courageous – and correct

22 March 2025 9:00 am

Kemi Badenoch secured the Conservative leadership on the basis that she would confront her party and the country with uncomfortable…

Trump has breathed new life into Davos Man

15 March 2025 9:00 am

So bad was the debut of this Labour government that many think it has already failed. But now, I suggest,…

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…

The reformation of the Labour party

1 March 2025 9:00 am

The world order has shifted on its axis, having been given a peremptory boot by the US President. What is…

Je suis Andrew Gwynne

15 February 2025 9:00 am

How do you like your members of parliament? Do you prefer them to be vacuous automatons devoid of wit, humour…

Labour minister sacked for vile WhatsApps

9 February 2025 5:27 am

Congratulations to Andrew Gwynne who wins the ministerial sack race of 2025. The Labour MP for Gorton & Denton was…

The trouble with criminalising ‘Islamophobia’

8 February 2025 9:00 am

When I first heard that Angela Rayner had been tasked with creating an advisory council that will draw up an…

Morgan McSweeney is urging Keir Starmer to go for the kill

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Morgan McSweeney, the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff, does not immediately display the demeanour of a disruptor. He speaks softly, picks…

Is Keir Starmer a lawyer or a leader?

25 January 2025 9:00 am

Keir Starmer surprised his colleagues during his first week in power when he appointed his old friend Richard Hermer KC…

What Bridget Phillipson has in common with Plato

18 January 2025 9:00 am

One does not like to disagree with one’s editor, but while the image of Rome salting the earth of its…

Why was everyone fooled by Rachel Reeves?

18 January 2025 9:00 am

It is some time since I could claim any close acquaintance with the daily skirmishes of workaday Westminster. From risers…

‘We’re pretty bullish’: Farage’s plan to transform politics

18 January 2025 9:00 am

‘We’ve had enough of living in two-tier Britain,’ bellows Nigel Farage to cheers from an 800-strong crowd at Chester’s Crowne…

When will Tulip Siddiq be sacked?

12 January 2025 10:12 pm

It’s rare that a world leader knows the name of a junior minister in the British government – let alone…

Press barred from grilling Starmer’s Chagos chum

12 January 2025 10:06 pm

There are just eight days to go until Donald Trump takes office. So the question much of Whitehall is asking…

How green is the government’s car service?

12 January 2025 6:00 pm

The government’s green credentials are in the firing line – and not for the first time. In office, Keir Starmer…