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Power tends to corrupt, said Lord Acton. This two line quote, the second line being “absolute power corrupts absolutely”, is far more well known, a hundred and fifty years later,...
John Rentoul, The Independent Sir Keir Starmer is coming up to the end of his first year as Labour leader — he was elected on 4 April last year, just...
Does anyone know what the Labour Party is doing? Are they still going? Maybe they were wound up in November, and have retrained as yoga instructors or pig farmers....
“So what would you do about it?” is the question opposition parties dread. They like to evade until they are ready to answer but can never escape. But Labour has...
Keir Starmer had a successful party conference season this year because there was no party conference. He has not given a speech to a live audience of more than a...
Don’t want to tempt fate, but it could be turning into a historically bad week for the self-proclaimed least racist people ever. Though they have, in fairness, tempted fate...
Voting ended on Thursday in Labour’s leadership election, before Jeremy Corbyn’s long, five-month goodbye ends on Saturday. Even some one-time supporters can’t wait for him to leave the stage....
Tom Peck, The Independent It will come as a surprise to absolutely no one that the Conservative Party is once again having to provide its own opposition to the...
Michael Chessum, The Independent Since 2015, Labour’s membership has roughly tripled. In the twilight years of Ed Miliband’s leadership, around 200,000 people were members; the electorate for Jeremy Corbyn’s...
Sienna Rodgers, The Independent Will the next leader of the Labour Party be a “Corbynite” or a “centrist”? Some may see that as an oversimplification of the question that faces...
