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The slow implosion of Keir Starmer’s government is the ultimate repudiation of ‘Labour minimalism’

This dominant tradition in the party has long insisted on appeasing powerful interests. But it’s unsuited to modern times, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Peers to mount fresh offensive to halt assisted dying bill

More than half of the 942 amendments have been tabled by seven lords in move which could filibuster legislation

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Neil Kinnock backs Lucy Powell in Labour deputy leadership race

The result of the contest to replace Angela Rayner will be announced on October 25.

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The Guardian view on Welsh politics: a new era threatens to leave Labour out in the cold

Editorial: After enjoying unparalleled political hegemony in Wales for over a hundred years, the party of Aneurin Bevan and Neil Kinnock has lost its way

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Rejoin the EU to solve UK’s economic woes and tackle small boats crisis, Kinnock tells Starmer

Lord Kinnock says he understands it would not be easy but ‘if we really want sustained economic growth, we have to be part of a body of the single market with our nearest neighbours’

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Neil Kinnock calls for government to scrap two-child cap on benefits

Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty ‘would make Dickens furious’ and calls for wealth tax to help reverse it

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Lord Kinnock urges Labour to scrap two-child benefit cap with ‘Robin Hood economics’

Rising levels of poverty ‘would make Charles Dickens furious’, former Labour leader says

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Former Labour leader Lord Kinnock calls for two-child benefit cap to be scrapped

Rising levels of poverty ‘would make Charles Dickens furious’, Lord Kinnock said in an interview with the Sunday Mirror.

Evening Standard

Lord Sawyer obituary

Member of Labour’s NEC who understood the need to modernise the party’s culture to reflect the politics of the late 1980s

The Guardian - UK

I changed my mind on banning the bomb, but the threat of nuclear war is growing – and so is complacency

Though the weapons I campaigned against remain terrifying, I doubt we can disarm unilaterally. That should be the stuff of vital debate: right now, it isn’t, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

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Zarah Sultana reveals what she wants new political party with Jeremy Corbyn to be called

Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has said the new group will only boost Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK parties

The Independent UK

Jeremy Corbyn confirms plan to create new political party with Zarah Sultana

Ex-Labour leader said it was ‘time for a new kind of political party’ to take on Starmer – but Labour grandee warns it will only help Tories and Reform

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Rachel Reeves set to reject calls for wealth tax on super-rich

Rachel Reeves is set to reject introducing a wealth tax despite pressure from left-wing MPs in the Labour Party

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Starmer braced for fresh rebellion over reforms to special needs support

It comes after Bridget Phillipson refused to rule out scrapping key documents that parents rely on to guarantee specialist help for their children

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‘Enemies of Labour’ to benefit from Corbyn-led party, says peer

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Any breakaway party should be called ‘Farage assistance group’ – Lord Kinnock

The former Labour leader said any ‘splintering’ of the party would ‘only be of assistance to the enemies of Labour’.

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Labour policies ‘obscured’ by rows over welfare and winter fuel – Lord Kinnock

The week of Sir Keir Starmer’s first anniversary in Number 10 saw the Prime Minister scrap a raft of the Government’s proposed welfare reforms.

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Corbyn and Sultana’s new breakaway party will only boost Nigel Farage, Neil Kinnock warns

Lord Kinnock said the new party should be called the ‘Farage assistance group’

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Keir Starmer should be bold and consider a wealth tax, Neil Kinnock says

Former Labour leader says government needs a better narrative and risks being bogged down by ‘imposed limitations’

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After a year studying Starmer, I can tell you that he is at once a very kind man and a ruthless one

Those around the Labour leader operate with the knowledge that everyone is expendable and no one is safe, says journalist and author Anushka Asthana

The Independent UK

Voices: Look away, Sir Keir! Labour’s bible has given its verdict on you

COMMENT: The New Statesman’s new editor is a critical friend of the prime minister – very critical, as it turns out, writes John Rentoul (a former deputy editor of the magazine)

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Peter Taaffe obituary

Political activist who oversaw an attempt by the Militant tendency to take control of the Labour party

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When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image, says writer and broadcaster Tim Walker

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Starmer should end UK’s ‘cycle of hesitation’ with EU, says Neil Kinnock

Former Labour leader says government should show greater willingness to work with bloc

Evening Standard

Peter Mandelson, our man in Washington: an 'absolute moron' or ruthlessly effective 'prince of darkness'?

“Absolute moron” or ruthlessly effective “prince of darkness”? It’s safe to say that our new man in Washington divides opinion — almost as much as the president to whom he’ll be paying court.

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