Starmer cannot win over voters with legalese – he must appeal to emotion
“New Labour, new Britain.” In his closing speech to the 1994 Labour Party conference in Blackpool, Tony Blair…
Tony Blair
The Ostrich tendency in the Labour leadership
Labour did not have a good set of May 6th elections, though there were positive results, especially in…
People want change, and it is the historic role of the Labour Party to deliver it
Tony Blair is right. Without a total change Labour will die. The problem is, the political tradition Blair…
Blair, Mandelson and Rayner offer thoughts on Labour’s electoral problems
Tony Blair and Peter Mandelson are taking to the airwaves and print to publicly offer their analyses of Labour’s…
Guilty, guilty, guilty
The man who murdered George Floyd has been found guilty on two counts of murder and one of…
Sunday shows: Labour defends Blair-backed teacher priority vaccine plan
The Andrew Marr Show Shadow Cabinet Office minister Rachel Reeves welcomed the success of the UK’s vaccine roll-out…
Labour needs to look at long-term trends – not simply focus on the ‘Red Wall’
The first anniversary of Labour’s 2019 defeat sparked sharp comment from Labour politicians in northern England. The thrust…
The first Labour party political broadcasts of Starmer’s predecessors
Keir Starmer aired his first party political broadcast (PPB) as Labour leader on Wednesday, which readers can watch…
15 years after her death, Mo Mowlam remains a figure held in high esteem
Today is the 15th anniversary of Mo Mowlam’s death. Mo was surely the best Northern Ireland Secretary this…
Blair repeats call for government to appoint “senior minister of testing”
Tony Blair has repeated his call for the UK government to appoint a “senior minister of testing” and…
