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BIZARRE: Clement attlee - You Need To See This

'Your boys took a hell of a beating!'- The names behind the famous Norway vs England 1981 commentary rant , from Lord Beaverbrook to Maggie Thatcher

It has been 46 years since England last beat Norway in a competitive event

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‘Commanding heights of the economy’: the postwar blueprint that inspires Burnham

In the second of a series on nationalisation, we look at the lessons from Clement Attlee’s administration

The Guardian - UK

Burnham has brought hope back to Labour – but he must understand how quickly it can be punctured

The Makerfield MP’s surge towards No 10 is a seductive ad for the power of positive politics. How long that proves effective depends on his next moves, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Tate & Lyle timeline: From historic roots in Liverpool to £2.7bn US takeover

The group was first founded in the UK more than 165 years ago.

Evening Standard

What does Britain need from Labour? Not another new PM, but a government with the guts to take radical action

There’s no point searching for a saviour without a genuine change in direction. Real courage is necessary – because Labour still has time to fix what is broken, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

The Peaky Blinders film is pandering to these populist times – I should know, the Nazi in it is my father

The film-makers would say they’re making drama, not history. But this is not the moment for yet another second world war film with a heroic myth, says author Francis Beckett

The Guardian - UK

From Harold Wilson to Liz Truss – what the fates of former prime ministers can teach Keir Starmer

Despite his name – honouring Keir Hardie, the first leader of the Labour party – Keir Starmer is not known to be a student of political history. This apparent incuriosity helps define an indistinct political identity.

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The fall of Peter Mandelson and the many questions the UK government must now answer

No accident waiting to happen can ever have delivered on its promise so spectacularly as Lord Mandelson, with the continuous revelations of his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The decision by the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, to appoint Mandelson as ambassador in Washington DC always appeared a…

The Conversation

Labour is living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around

Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum and things may get worse before they get better, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott

The Guardian - UK

Plans to weaken protections for national parks will have ‘disastrous consequences’ say green groups

Exclusive: Letter from 170-plus organisations calls on government to drop proposed changes to planning law

The Guardian - UK

Plan to build 12 new towns in England to be unveiled at Labour conference

Housing secretary is set to announce initiative modelled on Clement Attlee’s postwar ‘housing boom’

The Guardian - UK

Southbank Centre to ‘galvanise’ nation with Festival of Britain celebration

Danny Boyle will oversee youth culture event in May to mark 75th anniversary of postwar ‘burst of colour’

The Guardian - UK

Like Clement Attlee, Keir Starmer must rise to the occasion

Letters: Readers respond to Martin Kettle’s piece contrasting the premierships of Labour leaders past and present

The Guardian - UK

Voices: After Labour’s first year, Starmer could still learn from ‘one-term Attlee’

COMMENT: The current prime minister would be wise to study Clement Attlee’s post-war premiership, which also started with a landslide election but, mired in economic uncertainty and internal conflict, quickly ran out of steam, says historian Alun Evans

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I've been an MP for 42 years. I've seen Westminster take apart the welfare state

WHEN Jeremy Corbyn was two years old, Winston Churchill was elected as prime minister of the United Kingdom for the second time.

The Guardian - UK

Dr Strangelove: theatre of the not-so-absurd

Brief letters: Six months is a long time in politics and on stage | Bad news at 10 | Bevan blunder | Trump’s lettuce | Punting into spring

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s cautionary tale: how hereditary peers clung on for 26 years

Delay in removing hereditaries from Lords illustrates how hard it will be to push through more significant changes

Evening Standard

Where are the most notable blue plaques in London? Audrey Hepburn and Marc Bolan to be honoured

Legends to be given a plauque to celebrate their lives and where they lived

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Many great prime ministers overcome a shaky start – but Keir Starmer’s window is closing fast

Successful PMs learn on the job, and Labour’s leader needs to start 2025 by showing his party and the country he has done so, writes biographer Anthony Seldon

International Business Times

UK's Aristocratic Lawmakers Prepare For Life After The Lords

UK hereditary lawmaker Richard Fletcher-Vane, better known as Lord Inglewood, will soon no longer commute the few hundred miles from his country house in northwest England to the House of Lords in London -- and he is not happy about it.

The Guardian - UK

Starmer rejects false choice between Trump’s US and EU in key speech

At lord mayor’s banquet in London, British PM says ‘national interest demands that we work with both’

The National (Scotland)

Brian Cox pokes fun at Keir Starmer's Labour conference blunder

SCOTTISH actor and Yes campaigner Brian Cox poked fun at Keir Starmer during an interview with Good Morning Britain...

The Guardian - UK

Assisted dying is much more than a party political issue

If the prime minister has welcomed the debate in parliament, it is surely because he recognises changing public opinion

Evening Standard

Rayner acknowledges ‘anger’ over gifts as row threatens to overshadow conference

The Deputy Prime Minister rejected claims of dysfunction within Number 10 centred on chief of staff Sue Gray.

The Independent UK

Remaining hereditary peers to be kicked out of House of Lords within months

The government committed before the general election to abolish the right of hereditary peers to sit in the House of Lords

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