Starmer is making Britain a global leader again
Labour’s talking a good game at the UN General Assembly – but what does leadership mean?
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.
Machine politics in the age of Starmer
The Prime Minister’s image as a pragmatist belies the ideological reality of his administration.
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Labour’s route to recovery
Public confidence is falling quickly. The party must do far more to win it back.
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Starmer wisely resists going to watch Arsenal vs Man City
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Keir Starmer’s interventionist state
The Prime Minister’s embrace of bigger government is a challenge to both left and right.
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Starmer the grave
The Prime Minister’s grim speech was short on sunlit uplands, but its promise was serious.
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Starmer conference speech: distant but sunlit uplands
In a message of cautious hope, the prime minister outlined the rewards for the political pain to come.
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What’s the story?
Voters have lost their sense of what Starmer’s Labour is for. He must use his conference speech to tell them.
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Labour needs a growth plan
If Keir Starmer’s government seems incapable of delivering change, voters will not hesitate to look elsewhere.
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Why Keir Starmer’s freebies have become a political problem
The Prime Minister’s past attacks on the Tories and winter fuel payment cuts have exposed his government to greater scrutiny.
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Michael Gove’s lessons for Labour
The former cabinet minister on what Keir Starmer is getting right and wrong.
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PMQs review: Starmer struggles to explain winter fuel cut
The political pain for Labour is not going away – if only the leaderless Conservatives could exploit it.
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Will Keir Starmer’s “partnership” with the trade unions work?
The Prime Minister is pursuing a model of industrial relations not seen since Harold Wilson.
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Workers’ rights or growth? Another “tough choice” for Labour
Will pressure from business and their own economic priorities force Starmer and Reeves to dilute promised employment reforms?
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Winter fuel payments cause more trouble for Keir Starmer
Labour can survive a small revolt, but further unpopular policies lie ahead.
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Why the House of Lords will be hard to abolish
Reform of the upper chamber is one of Keir Starmer’s most important tasks this parliament.
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Labour’s battle for Britain
After a brutal summer, the government is already disliked. Can Keir Starmer reassert the authority of the state?
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Robert Harris: “Great politicians are like novelists”
The writer on Keir Starmer, Labour’s “grim” inheritance and his desire to reinvent the past.
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Labour’s winter fuel revolt
Keir Starmer must forge a politics of generational solidarity. The crises the UK faces require collaboration, not conflict.
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