‘Decency, wisdom and wry humour’: Tributes paid to Alistair Darling
Tributes have been paid by leading politicians to the “decency”, “wry humour” and “wisdom” of the former Labour…
New Labour
‘Why and how Labour should embrace a “new levelling up” agenda’
Labour has carefully avoided mentioning ‘levelling up’ in the five missions Sir Keir Starmer has outlined this year.…
Cruddas slams Labour “Leninists” and claims party less liberal than Blair’s
Jon Cruddas has accused the Labour Party of “literally unprecedented” factionalism, claiming the right of the party are…
Labour denies another policy U-turn as £3bn big tech tax ruled out
Good morning. Labour’s gradual drip-feed of self-confessed U-turns and staunchly denied but reported climbdowns continues. The Times suggests…
Starmer’s biggest task is convincing voters things can only get better
In 1997, Tony Blair swept to victory on a wave of optimism, declaring: “A new dawn has broken,…
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…
Starmer: We will go “further and deeper” changing party culture than New Labour
Keir Starmer has declared that the Labour Party under his leadership will go “further and deeper” than New…
Lessons for a Labour landslide in the Conservative catastrophe of 1997
In nature, landslides are caused by disturbances in stability. Whether through the heavy rains of the cost-of-living crisis…
Starmer’s Brexit speech was the symbolic culmination of his leadership so far
The problem with Boris Johnson’s carnival of lies and incompetence from a Labour strategist’s perspective is that it…
Attacks on food bank users betray an intellectually exhausted Tory Party
On May 5th, despite Conservative groups across the country trying to distance themselves from their embattled leader, the…
