‘Callaghan reborn? Why the former PM is the Labour figure Starmer best evokes’
In trying to get a fix on what kind of Prime Minister Keir Starmer will prove to be,…
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‘Exit plans and Steptoe and Sons: How past leaders spent nervy election nights’
The polls are open and the campaign is over. And while the political parties will spend the day…
‘A troubled history: Leaders and their manifestos, from MacDonald to Wilson’
“Labour policy is directed to the creation of a humane and civilised society.” So announced Labour’s Appeal to…
‘In 2024, Starmer must avoid the mistakes of Wilson in 1964’
Imagine that you have just become Prime Minister. It’s your first day on the job. You have managed…
‘Labour conference’s influence has never lived up to its founders’ ideals’
While its delegates basked in by-election glory, few believed that this year’s Labour conference would shape Labour policy.…
Best Labour leaders we never had: Anthony Greenwood
In 1960, the Labour Party was split on one policy above all: unilateral nuclear disarmament. After the 1960…
Best Labour leaders we never had: Anthony Crosland
It has to be said that Anthony Crosland, among the leading post-war revisionist social democrats in the British…
‘Labour is placing technology at the heart of its plans. How do we deliver?’
Politicians always talk about the valuable role that new technologies can play. But for Labour technology is at…
‘Lessons Labour can learn now from former leader Harold Wilson’
The subtitle of Nick Thomas-Symonds MP’s majestic biography of Harold Wilson – The Winner – suggests we would…
People say Starmer needs a vision. But rigid visions come back to bite you
Today, the fame of 41st US president George H.W Bush is eclipsed by his predecessor and successors. But…
