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Daily new Covid cases could reach 100,000, Sajid Javid has warned. The seven-day average is currently 38,000. “This pandemic is not over” and “we’ll be staying vigilant”, the Health Secretary declared at the coronavirus press conference…
Today was the first Prime Minister's Questions session since party conference season. It was also the first since the death of Conservative MP David Amess. Keir Starmer focused on online extremism, pushing Boris Johnson to commit to…
Swing voters were asked to share their impressions of Keir Starmer as well as Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak in the latest focus group by James Johnson of J.L. Partners that aired today on Times Radio – and the comments did not offer…
Rishi Sunak delivered his speech on the main stage at Tory conference in Manchester today. The Chancellor appeared to prioritise political positioning and had little to offer in the way of big new policies, announcing only that several…
“Very, very long. But good.” This is how the first Labour MP I bumped into described Keir Starmer’s first in-person party conference speech, a major moment for the leader. It was originally reported that the essay by Starmer published by…
Keir Starmer faces the biggest moment of his leadership today. After 18 months of delivering speeches to empty rooms, and having them ignored as the country focuses on coronavirus, the Labour leader now has the opportunity to speak…
John McDonnell has declared that Labour "lacked credibility" in the 2019 general election as the party attempted to "throw everything, every policy we could" at the public – but pointed out that "every bugger wants free broadband now". The…
After a difficult week, Keir Starmer will have felt like he had a good first day of conference. His electoral college proposal fell away, as LabourList said it might do because there was not nearly enough preparation beforehand and the…
When I interviewed Fabian Society general secretary Andy Harrop recently, I asked whether he considered Keir Starmer to be a very Fabian Labour leader. “Yes. In many ways, yes,” he replied. “Keir's political backstory, his political life…
Keir Starmer personally took ownership of several proposals for internal party reform yesterday. The Labour leader confirmed to the shadow cabinet that he would like to see the party approve a return to the electoral college system for…
Labour insiders supportive of the leadership have been making the case for bold internal reforms at this party conference. Their argument is that, if the next general election is taking place in 2023 as expected, Keir Starmer should use…
Labour’s first conference row has erupted, a little over a week before the start of the gathering in Brighton. A number of policy motions on a green new deal have been submitted to conference by local parties and affiliates. One of these is…
