Harold Wilson

Does anything remain of Starmerism?

Also: Tory-Reform electoral cannibalism, and politics as televised blood sport

There’s another cost-of-living crisis on the way

Plus: Britain’s great unsung city, and Harold Wilson’s secret sauce

March 1977: One year on from the prime minister’s shock resignation

Letter of the week: What would Harold Wilson do?

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Why can’t we give our prime ministers a break?

Whether mocked for a staged snap or forced to return home, PMs rarely enjoy a holiday.

Learning from the past makes better policy

Harold Wilson and Gordon Brown both looked to history in their plans for government. Today’s politicians should do the same.

Britain is trapped in the Long Seventies

Thatcherism is a dead ideology – so why does it still confine our economic imagination?

Roy Jenkins’ unfinished revolution

What Labour can learn from how the “liberal and radical” reformer changed Britain.

Harold Wilson’s lessons for Labour

Keir Starmer would do well to study Wilson’s programme for national renewal.

When the lights went out

Fifty years ago, Harold Wilson’s Labour took power in a snap election called to resolve the 1974 miners’ strike. But…

The white heat of politics

Thirteen years of Tory rule, a season of scandal and Labour on the rise – the hectic Britain of 1963…

16 October 1964: Britain urgently needs a new government, and the Labour Party is fit to provide it.

What Harold Wilson can teach Keir Starmer

A new biography shows how one of Labour’s most successful leaders kept the party united at all costs.

Keir Starmer’s energy strategy hints at Wilson-like cunning

Labour’s proposal to freeze families’ energy bills is the right policy at the right time.

What Labour still needs to learn from Harold Wilson

The Labour PM who won four elections knew a thing or two about connecting with the nation.