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Andrew RawnsleyThe Guardian |
James Daly, the Tory MP who pestered the Greater Manchester police into reopening inquiries into Angela Rayner, rather gave the game away when he was...
Talking about the prospect of a Labour government, some people sound like they are preparing the obituary before they have witnessed the birth. Sir...
Reader, I was there. It was shortly after 3am on 2 May 1997 when the Labour celebrations at the Royal Festival Hall turned from noisy exuberance at...
It has been such an atrocious six days for Rishi Sunak that his most lowering point was not Lee Anderson, the gargoyle the prime minister appointed as...
The polls will tighten. The polls will tighten. The polls WILL tighten. This has been the drumbeat banging away in the background of British politics...
Conservatives would usually be the first to complain when police officers are diverted from their duties tackling crime and maintaining order to...
Nearly a quarter of a century has passed since a speaker of the Commons stood down from its high chair with dignity and to applause. Being appointed...
Liz Truss, a name with which you will be painfully familiar if you have had to remortgage your home since she was prime minister, has claimed that...
I know a dead pledge when I see one, and I’m looking at one now. Labour’s green prosperity plan is history. It’s kicked the bucket, run down the...
What was unimaginable in the days of Jeremy Corbyn has become routine under Sir Keir Starmer. The rapprochement between Labour and capitalism was on...
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Donald Trump. In London, Paris, Berlin and every other significant European capital, bar Moscow, the...
Sir Keir Starmer recently surprised some colleagues by telling them that he regards the time he has spent in parliament since he became a Labour MP as...
To the widely voiced reasons to admire Alan Bates, the heroically dogged leader of the campaign to achieve justice for the victims of the Post Office...
It is an occupational hazard of being leader of the Labour party to receive a lot of unsolicited advice from people who think they have a better idea...
One member of the cabinet likes to amuse himself at meetings with his civil servants by making ludicrous statements in order to test whether the...
What will be an appropriate epitaph to inscribe on the tombstone of this Conservative government? Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, came up with a...
Yogi Berra, the revered baseball player and coach, would have called it deja vu all over again. A Tory chancellor telling the country it has “turned...
It can’t have been for the peerage, because former prime ministers can usually get a berth on the claret-coloured benches of the Lords for the...
Herbert Morrison, a past chief of the Home Office, once said that its “corridors are paved with dynamite”. Which is why it is of such critical...
If a government looks bad from the outside, it will be twice as rotten on the inside. I’ve found this a reliable rule of thumb over the years, but...
As fate would have it, the recent Labour conference in Liverpool opened the day after Hamas started its deadly incursion into southern Israel to seize...
Tell me that you are one of those people who think that byelection results don’t really matter and I will know for a fact that you are not Sir Keir...
B reaking the strict no-complacency rule that was supposed to be in force at the Labour conference, a member of the shadow cabinet said to me: “In...
R ishi Sunak’s closing address to the Conservative conference thrilled the speechwriting team – of Sir Keir Starmer. Before the event, there was...
T o Manchester for a tale of two Conservative conferences. The official one is taking place in the cavernous central convention complex under the...
I f I remember correctly, the Lib Dem logo is supposed to represent the “bird of liberty”. Seen from the angle of a twitchy Tory MP, it resembles...
W hen his parents named him after Keir Hardie, Labour’s first leader, they could not have imagined how often their son would be measured against...
I t is going to be nasty, brutish and very, very long. The general election is probably more than a year away, but the campaign has already begun. Sir...