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British voters rarely change their governments at election time. It has happened only three times - 1979, 1997 and 2010 – in half a century. We can be pretty certain of adding 2024 to that list this week.
It is much easier to be Keir Starmer than Rishi Sunak when it comes to the campaign politics of immigration this year – an unusual statement to make when comparing Labour and Conservative leaders heading into an election. Public…
Government ministers were reluctant to spell out why it was “wrong” for Lee Anderson MP to say that London Mayor Sadiq Khan is “controlled by Islamists”. Two-thirds of Conservative party members disagree with the suspension, while YouGov…
Councillor Azhar Ali had described his comments about Israel deliberately allowing the October 7th massacre to happen as “inexcusable” – as well as “deeply offensive, ignorant and false”. But with the deadline for printing the ballot papers…
Does Labour think that immigration to Britain should be lower? The party found the question hard to answer in recent general elections. Net migration had then averaged a quarter of a million per year, at similar levels under New Labour and…
Labour’s own plan to control Channel Crossings has the potential – if voters hear about it – to be rather better received than the Rwanda plan, as new YouGov polling conducted by Labour Together shows
LabourList has run a series of pieces offering different views on the conflict in Israel and Palestine, its implications and Labour's response. You can read more of them here. The terrible slaughter in Israel cast a dark shadow over the…
Keir Starmer is a politician probably more suited to governing than campaigning. Yet the confidence and unity of Labour’s Liverpool conference make it ever more likely he will get to test that theory in Downing Street next year. Starmer’s…
Immigration had played particularly well in the tabloid press and had "more potential to hurt". That was Andrew Lansley’s advice for the Conservatives in a controversially cynical Observer column back in 1995 by the party’s outgoing…
How do you call off a culture war? Most of us can easily think of some political and media voices we would be happy to hear a lot less from. Conservative vice-chair Lee Anderson telling asylum seekers to “f*** off back to France”…
Labour has won most Black and Asian votes in every general election for the last half century. But the party can not take for granted that this will continue. The race politics of the 1960s and 1970s generated strong ethnic minority…
No politician was ever chosen to govern a major democratic country without being at ease with its national symbols of pride and patriotism. Yet the politics of identity has become more complex. A much more consciously multi-national United…
