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    UK politics: Voters need to see more of the same

    02 Jun 2021

    Keir Starmer is not the first party leader who does not like doing the personal stuff. It’s not entirely his fault that he is not better known to the public. Taking over as Labour leader during a pandemic meant he gave his acceptance speech to his settee in his

    UK politics: The siren calls for an electoral pact

    06 Jun 2021

    One of the things for which Boris Johnson was wrongly mocked was writing two articles about Brexit, one in favour and one against. It was the sort of intellectually rigorous exercise that we should applaud in our leaders, even if we did not agree with the conclusion he reached.

    Starmer has come long way from anti-capitalism of his youth

    05 Sep 2021

    Keir Starmer was a bit of a leftie in his youth. This much is known, and two biographies of the Labour leader published over the summer provide some detail

    Keir Starmer may be on to something when he says Boris Johnson’s jokes are ‘going to wear thin’

    10 Oct 2021

    There goes Keir Starmer, copying Tony Blair again. “The jokes are all very well but they’re going to wear thin when people are hit in their wallet,” Starmer told Robert Peston after Boris Johnson

    UK travel: ‘If not now, when?’ is no guarantee of success

    30 Jul 2021

    It was the moment when the cabinet hawks hungry to open up the economy finally overcame the more cautious doves. In allowing fully vaccinated people to enter the UK from the EU and United States without quarantine from

    Why Keir Starmer is right not to bang on about Brexit

    29 Aug 2021

    I have seen an early draft of the leader of the opposition’s speech to his party conference. This is the paragraph that caught my eye: “Instead of talking about the things that most people care about,

    PM is feeling the heat, pressure from Labour

    19 Nov 2021

    It’s 11 years since Labour lost power, and two weeks since the sleaze scandal first erupted. And finally, the government is facing some serious opposition. It reminds me of my days as a newspaper correspondent in the political lobby when the

    Labour supporters should pay attention to Dowden’s speech

    21 Mar 2022

    A senior Conservative source has disclosed the party’s battle plan for the next election to The Independent. The aim is to draw dividing lines between the Tories and Labour on net zero, national security and cancel culture. It means portraying

    Johnson’s Jimmy Savile comment backfired spectacularly

    02 Feb 2022

    It says a lot that, when Boris Johnson found himself trying to wriggle his way out of trouble, he should recklessly smear Keir Starmer with the old lie that he was some sort of accomplice of Jimmy Savile. The fact checking service FullFact explains the background to this infamous

    Why Keir Starmer is craving for Tony Blair’s blessing

    05 May 2022

    Why was Keir Starmer so keen to win Tony Blair’s endorsement in a video message praising the Labour leader’s “strength, determination and intelligence”? Officially, allies say Starmer saw the 25th anniversary of Blair’s 1997 landslide as a

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