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Andrew FisherThe Guardian |
The last 24 hours have sent Labour’s unseemly shenanigans over Diane Abbott’s disciplinary case to top of the news agenda. The contradictory...
We’re not even one week into an election campaign, and already Keir Starmer is playing his greatest hits. It is a sign of how serenely Labour...
In July, Sir Keir Starmer will walk into Downing Street as the first Labour leader to win a general election since 2005, but the size of his majority...
The Tories have spent years making our benefits system more punitive while slashing funding for adult education. Yet today, amidst the consequences of...
The UK’s crises are deep, yet the solutions on offer are horrendously shallow. The Conservative Government is a pathetic basket-case of hate –...
Suella Braverman has emerged from this weekend with more humanity than a would-be Labour Cabinet minister – well, on one policy at least. The...
Pick a bellwether seat, the places that decide elections and where iconic voters are sometimes named after (like “Worcester woman” in 1997), and...
Deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda may well be the most obscene and morally debased nadir of a Conservative government that has wallowed in a gutter...
More than 100 Conservative MPs have announced they are standing down at the next election. The phrase “rats leaving a sinking ship” springs to...
As Labour’s shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh dominates the airwaves with talk of nationalising our train services and ending three decades of...
Every few years – maybe once or twice a decade – the working class in Britain decides not to work. There’s an outbreak of “swinging the...
The UK Government is committing “grave and systematic” violations of disabled people’s rights. That was the verdict of the UN’s Special...
“Nothing Labour does will be unfunded or uncosted”, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves asserted ahead of the Labour Party conference last September....
Imagine working at least 35 hours per week and getting paid a maximum of just £2.34 per hour, in the UK, in 2024. If a company was exploiting people...
Today is bad news for bills – that’s no April Fools joke. If you pay council tax or car tax, have a water bill, a mobile phone, a broadband...
Thames Water is an object lesson in the failure of privatisation. The company inherited the infrastructure on the cheap and failed to invest in it,...
Nearly 20 years ago an energetically keen, motormouthed and precociously bright young man, started work in the office of John McDonnell, then a...
The predicament facing Diane Abbott has led to something quite rare in today’s Labour Party: agreement from the left and right. Abbott, the first...
Politics in this country has never been worse. That’s the verdict of the British people. Only 12 per cent of the British public said they trusted...
After Labour capitulated on their £28bn green investment pledge, the next obvious target for those wishing to dilute the party’s already meagre...
An uncommonly tough week for Labour has been cauterised by two big by-election victories, one of which saw the second biggest swing in by-election...
On the day when we find out global warming has exceeded 1.5°C across an entire year, Labour has decided to drop what it branded its “Green...
The fact that Sadiq Khan backed Remain and still favours closer ties with the European Union is hardly news. The London Mayor has been a consistent...
One hundred years ago the first Labour government took office. And polls suggest Labour looks set to mark this centenary by returning to government...
Happy New Year! Inflation is falling and wages are rising. After a global pandemic and the worst cost of living crisis on record, we are emerging into...
We live in an era of post-truth politics. Earlier this week it was announced that the Office for Statistics Regulation is investigating Rishi...
You might think that being on the left of British politics is a fairly miserable affair – as both the Tories and Labour drift to the right. Within...
The British economy shrank in the last month – falling by 0.3 per cent in October. It increasingly feels like the only sector that is booming is...
This week, floundering Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will put forward yet another piece of legislation to save his morally and legally-challenged Rwanda...
Keir Starmer’s praise of Margaret Thatcher in The Sunday Telegraph , in which he credited Thatcher with delivering “meaningful change”, “to...