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Reeves will copy Brown’s stealth taxes

17 Sep 2023

Something has to give, and it is possible to predict what it will be. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves have tied themselves tightly with the bonds of fiscal responsibility. They...

Treat people smuggling like terrorism, Starmer says

14 Sep 2023

Nina Lloyd, The Independet People-smuggling should be treated “on a par” with terrorism, Sir Keir Starmer has said, as he promised new measures aimed at preventing small boat crossings...

Why Keir Starmer is still waiting for Sue Gray?

27 Aug 2023

Sue Gray, the only former civil servant most people have heard of, starts work as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff next month. For some in the Labour leader’s office, “waiting...

Starmer’s reluctance to reshuffle his team shows limits of his power

20 Aug 2023

After two years of Tony Blair’s government, Martin Rowson, the cartoonist, identified what he thought was “the fundamental problem with New Labour…” He drew an adviser holding a satchel upside...

The wrong ‘bold’ promises will only hurt Labour

14 Aug 2023

In the inward-looking debate that followed Labour’s defeat in 2010, one argument was especially dangerous: that it would have been better for Labour if John Smith had lived and won...

That is for sure the door is still open for the Tories

24 Jul 2023

Overinterpretation is the curse of the political classes. The prime example this week was the reading of Thursday’s by-elections as spelling doom for net zero — the target of...

Now is the time for Starmer to say no to the unions

17 Jul 2023

Keir Starmer should say that if he were prime minister now, he would not offer public sector workers more than Rishi Sunak is offering. There are three advantages to...

UK lawmakers likely to back a scathing ‘partygate’ report

19 Jun 2023

Jill Lawless, Associated Press Britain’s House of Commons is likely Monday to endorse a report that found Boris Johnson lied to lawmakers about lockdown-flouting parties in his office, a...

Labour party is now the low-immigration party

29 May 2023

Something significant happened this week. Labour confirmed its position as a party advocating lower immigration than the Conservatives. When a Redfield and Wilton opinion poll this month asked which party...

Starmer’s U-turns make it look as if he doesn’t believe anything

21 May 2023

Keir Starmer is “working forwards not backwards”, a Blair-era cabinet minister told me after one of the Labour leader’s recent U-turns. This was a cryptic way of saying that Starmer...

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