Labour Party

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

Portcullis
From Pontypool to Pauillac

Christopher Pincher takes us through the Labour Party’s beverages of choice

On Wine
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?

Artillery Row
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

Artillery Row
The thorny problem Christianity and Judaism never address

Why do Christianity and Judaism still find it so hard to get along?

Artillery Row
But who was behind the iceberg?

Jeremy Corbyn sails into deep water with the EHRC

Sketch
In which Sir Keir eats Mr Johnson’s cake

Starmer’s first order is last orders for pubs

Sketch
“I’ll tell you and you’ll listen”: the Neil Kinnock speech that lives on

The moment of pure political theatre that endures its legacy thirty-five years on

Artillery Row
Keir Starmer – a Serious Man

Starmer lays out a future – back to “the third way”

Artillery Row
Parliament is Labour’s best friend

Labour needs to learn to use the new hybrid arrangement to their advantage

Artillery Row