It’s the nuance, stupid
Binary thinking has broken our politics. Is there a way back?
ByKeir Starmer
Keir Rodney Starmer is a Labour Party politician who became Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. He has been MP for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015 and leader of Labour since April 2020. Starmer, born in 1962, studied law at the University of Leeds and Oxford, then became a barrister specialising in human rights. In 2008 he was appointed director of public prosecutions, for a five-year term. Find news, comment, and analysis about him here.
What’s the point of a Labour government that allows child poverty?
Keir Starmer says in private that lifting the two-child cap is his personal priority.
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PMQs review: Will Labour’s winter fuel U-turn work?
Despite Starmer’s reversal of a deeply unpopular policy, Badenoch struggled to take advantage.
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Does Rachel Reeves have an escape route?
The Chancellor knows she needs to prove again that she owes more to Gordon Brown than George Osborne.
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Why Kemi Badenoch’s Brexit attacks won’t work
The Conservatives are still haunted by their past failures on Europe.
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Starmer faces his unhappy backbenchers
Insiders described Monday's meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party as subdued.
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Labour’s Europe deal is a trap for Brexiteers
The government believes its opponents are on the wrong side of voters and business.
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Scotland has not turned against immigration
Scottish Labour could only flinch at Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech.
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British TV will be a victim of the US trade deal
The industry risks becoming collateral damage in Trump’s tariff offensive.
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Keir Starmer can rewrite the history of Brexit
Trump and Putin have handed Britain the chance for a fresh start with Europe.
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The long arm of Reform
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Labour’s immigration rhetoric has outflanked the Tories
Kemi Badenoch has no response – and her MPs are restless.
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Yvette Cooper’s quiet victory on immigration
The approach championed by the Home Secretary for over a decade has become the government’s
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The dangerous relationship
Keir Starmer’s hunger for quick wins with the US is storing up long-term defeats.
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Can Ed Miliband stand the heat?
Why the Energy Secretary believes he can outlast the campaign against him.
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Paralysis as usual in Starmer’s No 10
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The fight for Labour’s future
As MPs revolt against Rachel Reeves’ economic approach, Keir Starmer faces a defining choice.
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Keir Starmer must attack now to see off Farage
Donald Trump’s chaos gives the Prime Minister the perfect opportunity to move decisively.
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The Canadian example
Mark Carney’s election victory has proved that populist advance is not inevitable.
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PMQs review: Badenoch’s record still haunts her
Ahead of the local elections, Keir Starmer has a lot to worry about. The Tory leader is not one of…
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