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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…
Starmer's speech – and his handling of protestor – garners positive reviews: LabourList has Stephen Kinnock's reaction in a video here: he reckons it was "Barnstorming": Here’s what @SKinnock made of @Keir_Starmer ‘s “barnstorming” speech…
“Stands Scotland where it did?” That question, first asked by MacDuff in Act 4 of Macbeth, was the question on the lips of observers of politics North and South of the Border this week. And just before 2am on Friday morning their question…
The Labour Party’s annual conference is the one of the biggest political events in Europe. It is Labour’s sovereign decision making body and has a been the seen for many key moments in Labour Party history. It was an honour to Chair the…
Putting it lightly, Brexit has been a difficult topic for the Labour Party. Reclaiming the trust of Leave voters in the North and Midlands, satisfying a heavily Remain-voting base and attempting to outline a programme of reform to the…
Whilst Keir Starmer is no stranger to missing a wide-open goal, his comparison of the government to "cowboy builders" at last week’s Prime Minister’s Questions found the back of the net. He described Sunak’s team as those who say that…
Labour's small boats gamble "Labour means unlimited and uncontrolled immigration", says Tory chair Greg Hands. "Labour edging back towards the EU as it attempts to 'fix Brexit'", a Telegraph story reads. "He's opening the door to…
Over by lunchtime on MPs' first day back at Westminster. That fact alone says a lot about Keir Starmer's shadow cabinet reshuffle, though we should spare a thought for more junior frontbenchers still awaiting their fate. The shakeup proved…
Good afternoon, and welcome to LabourList's afternoon update. The long expected shadow cabinet reshuffle has come at last, and we now know what Labour's top team will look like for the final pre-election stretch. As predicted, Angela Rayner…
Nearly three years since Margaret Ferrier lost the SNP whip after a series of flagrant breaches of Covid regulations, and following a police investigation, a trial, a conviction, a Commons select committee review, a parliamentary suspension…
So much of recent British politics has come down to something quite simple. Swing voters identify the Conservatives with a steely economic competence – with a willingness to take tough decisions – but think they are in it for themselves…
Last Thursday’s by-election in Selby and Ainsty, where Labour overturned a majority of over 20,000, was an utterly devastating defeat for the Conservatives, following the loss of Somerton and Froome to the Liberal Democrats earlier in the…
