Hubris and human cloning at London’s AI summit
At a balding, besuited republic in Shadwell, I met a new set of salesman
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.
Keir Starmer has a people problem
He seems to lack the basic social skills necessary for survival
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Letter of the week: A not-so-corny notion
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I am filled with a menacing fear for the future
The Titanic on the horizon haunts my imagination
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Only a Burnham-Streeting alliance can save Labour
It’s not impossible
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PMQs: Starmer clashes with Farage over Henry Nowak
The Prime Minister insisted that “we must not allow this tragedy to be hijacked”
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Six things we learned from the Mandelson files
Peter Mandelson accused Keir Starmer of lacking “verve”
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Labour’s war of words
Has the party’s battle of ideas come too late?
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The fight for No 11
Also: sober frustrations, and learning from Robert Skidelsky
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Tony Blair’s encyclical for Keir Starmer
The former PM intervenes on Labour’s future
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What Britain won’t face
The country has chosen delusion over reality
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Is Makerfield a dead end for the Greens?
Internal division over whether to run a “full campaign” is a sign of things to come
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Andy Burnham is a Starmerite
Should he ever become prime minister, we will have the same government with a different accent
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Wes Streeting’s “battle of ideas”
We are getting a sense of what the former health secretary would do in government
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It’s Makerfield or break for Andy Burnham
This by-election is a once-in-a-lifetime, all-out fight between social democracy and right-wing populism
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Did Farage give our Guardian scoop to the Telegraph?
Also: the electoral wisdom of on-the-ground reporters, and jet lag meets its match
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Keir Starmer is a dishonest man
His successor must make a break with this failing government
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Can Andy Burnham discover why Britain is failing?
Failure to accept even that something has gone wrong left Starmer’s premiership empty
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Letter of the week: A rising tide lifts small boats
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Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism
The Manchester mayor has launched his bid to return to parliament
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