Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

UNBELIEVABLE: 4 | History Defined

NHS crisis ‘a million times worse’ than under Tony Blair, former health secretary warns

Alan Milburn said the NHS needs to be weaned off what he said was a ‘more, more, more’ culture

The Independent UK

OPINION - Rachel Reeves's £40bn of tax rises sets up the dividing line for the next election

Ask two Blairites when the New Labour project died, and you might get three different answers. The first is June 2007, when Tony Blair stood down as prime minister. The second is May 2008, when the party ran a class-based (and unsuccessful) campaign at the Crewe and Nantwich by-election. While…

Evening Standard

Tony Blair: Why there has to be compromise to end the Ukraine war

Sir Tony Blair discusses peace-making, Brexit and Keir Starmer’s premiership in wide-ranging London Standard interview

Evening Standard

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

The big idea: is nostalgia killing politics?

From the Tories’ Thatcher fixation to Labour’s Blair fetish, ideas from the past are poisoning the political present

The Guardian - UK

Who are the key New Labour figures in Keir Starmer’s government?

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

The Guardian - UK

The New Real review – facts are an illusion in David Edgar’s post-truth political play

Two political strategists from the US and New Labour are recruited to help win a ruthless election in a former Russian colony

The Guardian - UK

Lammy defends Chagos Islands deal as Tories claim it puts UK security at risk – as it happened

Shadow foreign secretary, Andrew Mitchell, says David Cameron and James Cleverly would not have agreed such a deal

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Increase wealth taxes to stop rise of Reform UK, says ex-Labour minister

Liam Byrne has warned the chancellor that extra levies on the rich are needed to halt the rise of the populist right

The Guardian - UK

Tory contenders dip into Blair’s playbook with ‘New Conservative Party’ revamp plan

Just as Tony Blair invented ‘New Labour’ to take his party back to power, two of the four Tory leadership candidates will today explain why a ‘New Conservative Party’ is needed

The Independent UK

David Edgar: ‘If you can only think yourself into the shoes you’re wearing it makes creating fiction impossible’

With two new plays opening this autumn, the veteran playwright talks about the risks of writing about real events and the threats to leftwing drama and politics

The Guardian - UK

Who is Lord Alli, the life peer and prominent Labour donor?

From access into No 10 to covering the costs of Victoria Starmer’s personal shopper and wardrobe, Lord Waheed Alli’s political career has had its intriguing moments. But who is the millionaire TV mogul who was granted a peerage at 34?

Evening Standard

Financial leaders and party insiders warn Starmer: we need less gloom, more optimism

PM told his downbeat tone risks putting off investors and that his conference speech must temper realism with hope

The Guardian - UK

Furore over Labour cronies ‘no worse than Tories’ in government, allies say

Political veterans say Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves installing trusted allies in Whitehall roles par for the course

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Labour and the trade unions: thrust together by more than history

Editorial: Sir Keir Starmer is right to recognise that Britain needs to move away from an economic model that seeks growth by making workers poorer

The Guardian - UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The National (Scotland)

Here's what £29bn in New Labour's PFI debt bought the Scottish taxpayer

THE National can reveal that Scots have had £29 billion of debt foisted on us by PFIs – and that we will be paying the bills until 2043 ...

The National (Scotland)

Inside the Labour Party's obsession with controversial PFIs

The Private Finance Initiative (PFI) was not always a controversial brand ...

The Independent UK

Pressure building on Starmer to go further reversing the harms of Brexit

MPs show appetite for far reaching changes to UK’s relationship with the EU with one new Labour MP claiming a toy shop in her constituency closed because of Brexit

The Guardian - UK

Call off the search to discover Starmerism. It is already beginning to reveal itself

The meaty king’s speech heralded several striking and radical departures from the Tory years that came before

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer aims to avoid backbench rebellion with child poverty taskforce

PM’s speech failed to specify measures to tackle issue, angering MPs calling to scrap the two-child benefit cap

The Guardian - UK

It was a landslide election but this much is clear: neither Labour nor the Tories stand on solid ground

We know Starmer is in No 10, the Tories in disarray but what lies beneath should worry the entire political class, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

Monday briefing: French opposition to the far right comes out on top

In today’s newsletter: A shock defeat for the far right National Rally in France, while in the UK the new Labour government gets down to work

The Independent UK

All the Labour cabinet members who aren’t MPs from Patrick Vallance to James Timpson

The cabinet includes senior ministers from the Tony Blair era, and those given peerages to sit in the House of Lords

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer stunned sceptics and rebuilt Labour. Now he must do the same for Britain

Not one senior party figure originally thought he had a prayer of leading them back into government in a single parliament, but now he bestrides a transformed political landscape

The Guardian - UK

Who is in the new Labour cabinet?

With many MPs who served Blair and Brown, Starmer’s team is one of the most experienced in recent times

The Independent UK

Labour’s 1997 results and how the 2024 general election exit poll compares

Sir Keir Starmer’s party is predicted to win 410 seats, falling short of New Labour’s result in 1997

1 … 3 4 5 6

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the Conservative Party

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.