Threatening to run against Khan in 2024 is Corbyn’s way of leveraging back into Labour. But the members are increasingly resistant to his siren calls as they get ever-closer to returning to power.
The market reaction to the mini-Budget raises questions over whether the Opposition could fund their own prospectus without a financial panic.
A brief series highlighting how the Labour Party used to be intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich, as long as they paid their taxes.
A brief series highlighting how the Labour Party used to be intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich, as long as they paid their taxes.
Labour only wins when it understands aspiration. British voters want stability, not a revolution. Starmer showed today that is a lesson he has learned.
A brief series highlighting how the Labour Party used to be intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich, as long as they paid their taxes.
As the Government goes off in a radical new direction, he will hope to show he has made his party sensible.
For almost a century, Labour has been a solidly monarchist party – and Labour Prime Ministers have often enjoyed better relations with the sovereign than their Tory equivalents.
“‘Rift’ claims as Treasury Chief retires,” the Independent reported in 1998, after Brown eased out Terry Burns.
It is to the Tories’ benefit that Starmer remains in place. He will be more beatable at the next election than some of his Labour rivals.
Why should voters trust anything the former Shadow Brexit Secretary says about leaving the European Union?
Most voters are to the left economically and to the right culturally. Today’s conference was not an event designed with them in mind.
At PMQs, he demanded the Government meet with the RMT. But what would the current Shadow Cabinet do in such a meeting?
As the Labour leader visits Dublin and Belfast, he shrinks from disclosing how he would solve the present difficulties.
Politics may well have an ideas problem. But is the best way to deal with it yet another centrist love-in?