To boost growth, Labour should lean into liberalism
Later licensing hours for pubs and clubs are a start. But what other illicit activities could be legalised to help…
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The truth about the small-boats crisis
What Nigel Farage won’t tell you
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Zack Polanski: “We absolutely need to stop the boats”
The Greens’ Zack Polanski on facing up to Reform
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Shabana Mahmood attacks right-wing “ethnonationalism”
In her Labour conference speech, the Home Secretary argued that there is a price to pay for an open and…
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Keir Starmer tries to rally the left – by shadow-boxing the right
The Prime Minister condemned right-wing caricatures of the UK and introduced his digital ID card policy
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Why Starmer wants digital ID cards now
The policy is explicitly aimed at tackling illegal immigration. But the PM may hope for other benefits
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Can Shabana Mahmood save Labour?
If the Home Secretary solves the small-boats crisis, the party has a fighting chance of winning the next election
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Nigel Farage’s migration plan will change the soul of Britain
Reform UK’s proposals are a threat to the principle of integration
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No one will escape Reform’s immigration plans
Faced with the prospect of being deported, I feel a need to justify my existence in the UK
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Why Farage’s immigration plan is dividing Labour
The government will not condemn the plan on moral grounds
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Letter of the week: Into the darkness
Write to [email protected] to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Lea Ypi: “Labour is committing political suicide”
The Albanian philosopher on No 10’s shift to the right on immigration, her grandmother, and that Spectator article.
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Speak for England, Big John
In the face of racist attacks, the food influencer represents a form of patriotism that is modest and decent.
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It’s official – Keir Starmer’s “island of strangers” speech has backfired
Exclusive: the first survey before and after the immigration speech reveals a drop in Labour support.
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The age of deportation
The haven that Britain once was is being dismantled. In its place a fortress rises.
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The left’s immigration failure
In Labour’s absence, Nigel Farage is stepping into the void.
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Douglas Carswell has sunk to the gutter
The former MP is far from the only Brit to be sent into a rage spiral by watching X.
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How the small boats crisis convulsed Britain
With talk of mass deportations entering our politics, the victims of a broken system are being forgotten.
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Nigel Farage’s hollow, dangerous concern for women
Reform’s radical plans for mass deportations won’t make anyone safer.
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