‘Tough talk isn’t enough. Labour’s real test on immigration is believability’
Keir Starmer’s speech on immigration today was the most direct signal yet that Labour is preparing to fight…
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‘Why are the knives out for Bridget Phillipson?’
Keir Starmer, it was recently reported, warned his ministers that they could either ‘be disruptors or be disrupted’. Arguably…
Councillors in Reform-won Doncaster were ‘sacrificial lambs over winter fuel’
Labour local election candidates who lost their seats to Reform in Doncaster have blamed Keir Starmer and Rachel…
‘Labour is right to revisit winter fuel. But it needs a wider reset of messaging’
This is not an article about economics – nor is it an article about fiscal policy. This is…
‘Labour must expose the gap between Reform’s local ambition and ability’
So the results are in, and we now have 677 new Reform councillors, and ten new Reform administrations…
‘FPTP: Bad for Tories, bad for Labour, bad for democracy’
When the results of the local and mayoral elections have been fully analysed, no doubt there will be…
Faster, fairer, or further right? Labour MPs divided over local election fallout
Rifts within the Labour Party have been exposed as MPs delivered a range of responses on how the…
Local elections: ‘We should have performed far better than we did’
As ballots continue to be counted from May’s local elections, there will be a countless number of thinkpieces…
‘We know people want change. Labour needs to make it’
People want change. That’s what they voted for last summer when they voted Labour. The manifesto on which…
Local elections: ‘Four yardsticks for how Labour did in wake-up call election’
Every year since 2011, I have written a preview of the local elections and a scorecard after the…
