Rebecca Long-Bailey
How Keir Starmer has reshaped Labour
For the first time in 13 years, the public, when polled, think a Labour leader would make the best prime…
Portrait of the week: Boris does press-ups, pubs reopen and Leicester locks down
Home Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister, said he was ‘as fit as a butcher’s dog’ and did press-ups to prove…
The left-wing case for Keir Starmer
Do you remember where you were when the BBC showed a rerun of Bowie’s Glastonbury set? When we ask each…
I won’t be applying to be director-general of the BBC
Despite huge public pressure, I shall not be applying to be director-general of the BBC. It was kind of Tony…
Rebecca Long-Bailey is right: hyphens come and go
When Francis Hurt inherited the Renishaw estate in 1777, he changed his surname to Sitwell. His eight-year-old son and heir…
Portrait of the week: Harry and Meghan quit, America avoids war and the Labour leadership race begins
Home The Queen agreed to ‘a period of transition’ during which the Duke and Duchess of Sussex would spend time…
Does ‘equality’ mean the same to Rebecca Long-Bailey as it did to Plato?
The candidates battling for the leadership of the Labour party never stop banging on about ‘social justice’ and ‘equality’. But…
Inside the Labour leadership campaigns: who is running the show?
Now that the second phase of the Labour leadership contest is underway, the five candidates are finalising their campaign teams.…
Is a double-barrelled surname still posh?
Lock, stock and double barrels In Rebecca Long Bailey, who sometimes hyphenates her name and sometimes doesn’t, the Labour party…
The Labour candidates the Tories are worried about
When a Labour politician or aide stops to chat in the corridors of parliament these days, they only have one…
Will John McDonnell lock Tories up if Labour wins the next election?
Smiley, fluent and softly spoken, John McDonnell sometimes comes across as a bit cuddly. Yesterday Labour’s shadow chancellor was interviewed…
