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One of Sir Keir Starmer’s best performances was the speech he gave to signal the premature end of his premiership. So often caricatured as an unemotional technocrat, the moment...
On Thursday, voters in what has long been one of the safest Labour seats in the country will be going to the polls to decide not only who becomes...
One of the reasons why Sir Tony Blair was Labour’s longest-serving and, certainly in domestic matters, most successful prime minister is that, both while preparing for power and then...
Since its founding nearly 40 years ago, The Independent has argued for Britain to continue to be an open, tolerant nation, welcoming immigrants who contribute to our dynamic economy...
As Labour descends into renewed infighting over Brexit and the party's future after heavy local election losses to Nigel Farage's Reform UK, Independent readers have been deeply divided over...
Whatever comradeship and fraternal fealty remain within Labour, the debate that has suddenly ignited in the party about Britain rejoining the European Union is hardly helping it. Two men...
A week or so after the shock of the local elections first began to reverberate through the Labour Party, the future of the prime minister is hardly any clearer....
With his premiership imploding, Boris Johnson famously observed that: “As we’ve seen at Westminster, the herd instinct is powerful — and when the herd moves, it moves.” The words...
As Winston Churchill said of parliamentary politics, Keir Starmer’s enemies don’t have the one great advantage that incumbency bestows on him. He can act, they can only talk. What,...
Catherine West, the former minister who is launching a stalking-horse campaign to try to force Sir Keir Starmer out of office, does not know who she wants as prime...