Keir Starmer

One year of Sir Keir

How does Starmer compare to Thatcher, Blair and Cameron?

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Labour’s Local Election launch 

Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner failed to convince the electorate that Labour has totally renounced Corbynism

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Cavalier with the facts

PMQs pitches a Cavalier prime minister against his Roundhead opponent. But Boris risks a lot as “the Rupert of debate”

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Silence in court

Calls by Labour politicians for an inquiry into royal racism misjudge the popular mood

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How is Labour shaping up under Starmer?

Labour would certainly not win a general election if it were held tomorrow; but they are heading in the right direction

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The magician’s dismay

The showman spotted the rabbit hopping about backstage, but was forced to carry on with his trick

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Masters No More: Clement Attlee and the ‘Revolt of the Suburbs’

Holding together working- and middle-class voters has been Labour’s historic Achilles’ heel. Can Keir Starmer do what Clement Attlee couldn’t in 1950?

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Vanilla flavour Labour

Something borrowed, something blue – Keir Starmer’s vision cedes the initiative to Rishi Sunak

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If the Labour Party didn’t already exist, who would invent it today?

If Keir Hardie were still around, he might ask himself why he bothered to create a political party that has now lost its purpose

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Event horizon

Boris’s believable border boasts

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