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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Keir hardie - What They Never Told You

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.

The Conversation

'Keir' name goes extinct after Starmer comes to power

KEIR Starmer can’t stop his party from tanking in the polls. He can’t stop the economy spiralling the drain.

The National (Scotland)

Fred Reid obituary

Other lives: Historian at Warwick University and campaigner for visually impaired people

The Guardian - UK

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The poor don’t need Reeves’s austerity. And neither does Britain

With the economy stagnating, this is the very worst time to depress demand in order to be seen to ‘balance the books’

The Guardian - UK

Lidia Thorpe protest reminds me of Keir Hardie’s in 1894

Brief letters: Pontypridd colliery disaster | Van Gogh worth the wait | A macabre José Saramago tale | Expertise in death

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour’s winter fuel vote: badly handled

Editorial: Labour’s leadership should have defended its choice to cut winter fuel payments. Instead, it chose the worst of all options

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer and top Labour colleagues to stop taking clothes gifts from donors

Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner will not accept donations for work outfits after row over Waheed Alli gifts

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New PM Keir Starmer poised to bring a low profile to 10 Downing Street

The Labour Party won a landslide victory in the UK general election on Thursday, making Keir Starmer the country’s first Labour prime minister in 14 years. Starmer's victory caps a remarkable political rise for the former human rights lawyer and chief prosecutor, first elected an MP in 2015.

France 24

Of course faith has a place in our society

Keir Hardie and many others were inspired by their religion

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour doing God: faith communities can play a part in national renewal

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer is not a believer, but he is right to recognise the value of religious organisations’ commitment to the common good

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner on roots, rough edges and being ready for power: ‘You can’t go through the childhood I had and not have any fallout’

She’s blunt, bolshie and terrifies the Tories. But if Labour gets into government, the deputy leader will be one of the most powerful women in Britain. Bring it on, she says

The Guardian - UK

Billy Kay: The journey from auld, auld Labour to the SNP

MA faither wis auld Labour … naw, ma faither wis auld, auld Labour.

The National (Scotland)

OPINION - The strange rebirth of Scottish Labour

To understand the Labour Party, you first have to understand the importance of Scottish Labour. From Keir Hardie to John Smith, Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown, Scotland runs to the very core of the labour movement. For goodness sake, even Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh.

Evening Standard

Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election: Labour and SNP battle for Scotland’s future

There will be 14 candidates on the ballot paper but the by-election will be a battle between the SNP and Labour – and one that will indicate the direction of travel of politics nationally

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Keir Starmer is borrowing from Tony Blair, but that doesn’t make him a Blairite

One thing they share is the belief that the purpose of politics is to make things happen – and you only get to do that by winning power

Evening Standard

Mangal 2: Celebrity diners don’t do anything for our Google rating

Lily Allen is a fan, but it’s not enough for a five star rating

The Independent UK

Labour led by right-wing, illiberal group engaged in witch-hunt, says MP

A ‘right-wing, illiberal faction’ has taken over Labour and is engaging in a ‘witch-hunt’, Jon Cruddas has claimed.

The National (Scotland)

New book explores life of key Labour and SNP founder Robert Cunninghame Graham

HE was a politician who turned away from Labour to support Scottish independence and campaigned more than a century ago on issues still relevant…

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Scottish Labour media boss sparks anger with 'cremate the SNP' tweet

SCOTTISH Labour’s communications boss has found himself at the centre of controversy after tweeting that his party would “cremate” the SNP.

The National (Scotland)

Bringing home our Stone from the King's Coronation

ROBERT Bontine Cunninghame Graham, friend and ally of Keir Hardie and Hugh MacDiarmid, co-founder of the Scottish Labour Party and founding…

The National (Scotland)

'Branch office' jibes as Keir Starmer says he sacked Scottish Labour leader

KEIR Starmer has suggested that he stepped in to effectively fire the former Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard.

The National (Scotland)

The dusty old box labelled 'Dracula' that was almost binned – but held a treasure

MARKED “DRACULA”, the dusty old box lay in Louise Fyfe’s attic in her Ayrshire home for years.

The Guardian - UK

The week in theatre: Phaedra; Sylvia; Standing at the Sky’s Edge – review

Lyttelton; Old Vic; Olivier, LondonJanet McTeer is mighty in Simon Stone’s electric remaking of myth; dance, not speech, powers Kate Prince’s suffragette musical; and Richard Hawley’s paean to Sheffield finds a home from home

The National (Scotland)

'Neither nationalist nor Unionist': Richard Leonard makes film about Keir Hardie

FORMER Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard has paid tribute to Keir Hardie with a new short film about the miner-turned-politician’s legacy.

The Guardian - UK

Ambivalence about the Queen seems modern – but it’s actually a Victorian feeling

As we reach Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee, my mind is drawn to another ageing monarch’s pomp and ceremony, says Guardian columnist Ian Jack

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