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Historians of the Labour party put Britain’s new government into context

The coming of a new Labour government is a moment to take stock. Are there things that the new administration can learn from previous Labour governments? Is it true, as David Cameron claimed in 2009, that Labour governments always run out of money?

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Taxing the rich could solve many problems. Why is it so difficult in the UK?

Making billionaires pay their fair share into state coffers would allow Starmer’s government to effect real change, but soaking the rich is a hard sell for voters

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The Guardian view on Labour’s rebellion: removing the whip is a step too far

Editorial: A continuous demonstration of intra-party unity and loyalty to the party leader won’t solve Britain’s problems

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Labour put ‘safe’ seats at risk to target marginals. It paid off – but there’s a cost

The party’s landslide victory on only 34% of the vote was a masterpiece of electoral Jenga. But the taller the tower, the weaker the base, writes Robert Ford

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Keir Starmer: three warnings from history for Labour’s seventh British prime minister

When teaching British political history, I usually stress two points. First, the British Conservative Party have been among the most successful office-seeking parties in electoral history. Second, British Labour struggles mightily to obtain power. Both throw into relief the earth-shattering nature of this landslide win for Keir Starmer’s Labour party.

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From Baldwin to Blair and more: the biggest landslides in British election history

With Labour predicted to win by a historic margin, here are some of the most dramatic victories of previous times

The Guardian - UK

All Change? Labour Tipped To Oust Tories At UK Election

Britain looks likely to see a change of government this week, swinging leftwards back to the centre ground and the Labour party after 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule.

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UK's landmark postwar elections: When Labour won big against war hero Churchill in 1945

Britain’s upcoming general election is widely expected to lead to a change of government for the first time in 14 years

The Independent UK

The women who came before: Rachel Reeves’s three Labour leading lights

Reeves, who could be Britain’s first female chancellor, has named three women on whose shoulders she would stand

The Guardian - UK

Brexit, oil and bombs: The words that have defined UK elections since 1945

Guardian analysis of messaging in post-war Tory and Labour manifestos reveals shifting political focus

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Drill into the policy, ignore the puffery: this is a Starmer manifesto more than a Labour one

The comparator isn’t any other Labour leader – it’s the Tory Edward Heath, says the Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

The Guardian - UK

The Joy of Six: commentators losing themselves in the moment

From a Norwegian whose gleeful words are still aped today, to some brilliant rugby league apoplexy, via golfing disbelief and more

The Guardian - UK

Socialism isn’t a dirty word. It’s simply about wanting to make a fairer society

Labour’s leadership needn’t struggle to define the ideology; it’s in its very constitution

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If Labour wins a 1945-style landslide, it will have no excuse for playing it safe

Sticking to the Tories’ nonsensical fiscal rules, as it says it will, would be a political and economic mistake, says the Guardian’s economic editor Larry Elliott

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Rishi Sunak’s scare tactics aren’t going to work against a soothing Keir Starmer

As he demonstrated at the launch of his pledge cards, the Labour leader has succeeded in de-risking perceptions of his party

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The Labour party’s complicated relationship with God

Letters: Andrew Copson of Humanists UK, Zaki Cooper, David Tutssel and David Cragg-James respond to an editorial about the party and faith communities

The Hindu

What is needed from a Governor is reticence

Governors need to steer clear of controversies, especially those unconnected with their constitutional duties

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A Century of Labour by Jon Cruddas review – what does the party stand for?

The MP and former policy chief sets out the battle of ideas that has shaped Labour from Attlee to Starmer

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Keir Starmer ‘lacks clear sense of purpose’ claims Labour ex-policy chief

Party historian MP Jon Cruddas questions readiness for power of leader with few ties to movement’s roots or ideology

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Lazy and fraudulent: we saw the true Johnson at the Covid inquiry – and why his like must never have power again

He confirmed himself as manifestly unfit. Those who gave Britain such a leader should carry the shame of it to their graves, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Thatcherism is the worst kind of model for Labour

Letters: Readers criticise Keir Starmer for praising the former Tory prime minister and her plan for entrepreneurialism

Evening Standard

OPINION - Sir Keir Starmer triggered the Corbynites over Margaret Thatcher and exposed their stupidity

Photographed wearing a giant poppy (and on a cold weekend in December, long after it is necessary) Sir Keir Starmer writes a piece in a conservative newspaper pitching for Conservative voters and praising Margaret Thatcher. That is the combustible headline elsewhere anyway. The truth — the context — is Thatcher…

Evening Standard

OPINION - Forget Margaret Thatcher, the key to Keir Starmer is his view on Clement Attlee

A politician praising a predecessor provides a heavy hint on how they intend to govern, but Keir Starmer’s new found enthusiasm for Margaret Thatcher is a tactical play. His ultimate role model is a very different leader — not the grocer’s grammar school daughter but the shy and underwhelming Clement…

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Lord Darling of Roulanish obituary

Labour chancellor of the exchequer who in 2008 found himself in the eye of an unparalleled economic storm

The Hindu

Crafting a new chapter in parliamentary conduct

Given the state of conduct in India’s Parliament, a solution to change things lies in returning for inspiration to the source — the Houses of Westminster

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