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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 · Oct 15, 2024

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 · Oct 13, 2024

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 · Oct 7, 2024

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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 · Oct 5, 2024

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 · Oct 1, 2024

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 · Sep 19, 2024

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 · Sep 16, 2024

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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 · Sep 15, 2024

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 · Sep 7, 2024

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 · Aug 6, 2024

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) · Aug 1, 2024

Inside the Labour Party's obsession with controversial PFIs

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

The National (Scotland) · Jul 30, 2024

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 Independent UK · Jul 22, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 20, 2024

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 17, 2024

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 · Jul 11, 2024

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 · Jul 8, 2024

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 · Jul 7, 2024

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

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The Guardian - UK · Jul 7, 2024

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 · Jul 5, 2024

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 · Jul 4, 2024

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

The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2024

Sleaford Mods, the 1975, Fred Again: the songs that sum up each year of Tory government

Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years of Conservative rule

The Conversation · Jul 1, 2024

Labour and the Conservatives both plan to boost childcare by relying on the private sector

Childcare features prominently in both major parties’ plans for work and personal finance. Keir Starmer wants to make early-years provision as universal as possible while the Conservatives claim they’re already transforming childcare and increasing funding to both boost children’s development and get mothers back to work.

The National (Scotland) · Jun 30, 2024

Revealed: Westminster’s ‘unhealthy’ £100,000 relationship with the gambling industry

WESTMINSTER MPs and parties benefited from over £100,000 in gifts and donations from the gambling industry in the past year...

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2024

Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party – and we should believe it

Let’s take Starmer at its word that it is the party of wealth creation and growth, not redistribution and equality. What will this mean for our politics, asks David Edgerton, professor of modern British history at King’s College London

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