‘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…
Local elections
‘Scrapping social care worker visas is a reasonable evidence-based move’
Today’s attacks on Labour for scrapping care worker visas are over-blown. Yvette Cooper and Wes Streeting have taken…
Immigration white paper: Starmer has the authenticity issue Miliband once had
Labour unveiled a string of new policies this morning in the government’s immigration white paper, but the Prime…
‘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…
‘Australia’s election shows how compulsory voting rewards progressive governments that deliver’
In last Saturday’s Australian election, Anthony Albanese and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) bucked the global anti-incumbency trend,…
‘Jobs saved, jobs won, but not job done’: Keir Starmer heralds US-UK trade deal
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has heralded a new trade deal between the UK and the United States, which…
Labour MPs slam disabled benefit cuts as ‘impossible to support’: Letter and list of rebels in full
Dozens of Labour MPs have said that the government’s plans to cut disability benefit are “impossible to support”…
‘Candidate selection delays cost Labour in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough’
Labour’s success depends on early and visible campaigning. In Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, delays in candidate selection cost us…
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…
Starmer won targeting Red Wall voters. Now even their MPs rebel on winter fuel
Targeting a particular kind of Red Wall voter was a key part of Labour’s strategy going into the…
