The Tory leadership candidates are all peddling dangerous delusions
No Conservative will dare admit the searingly obvious: Brexit is proving a catastrophe for Britain.
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’s big gamble pays off as he avoids a Durham police fine
The decision ends speculation over Starmer’s future and allows Labour to draw a sharp contrast with the rule-breaking Conservatives.
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Boris Johnson’s resignation is a problem for Keir Starmer
His replacement will be a safer, more directionless, but less scandal-prone pair of hands – undoing Labour’s entire electoral strategy.
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Andrew Fisher: “Keir Starmer is too interested in not being Jeremy Corbyn”
The former Labour policy chief on why the Conservatives could still win.
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Could Boris Johnson call a snap election?
At PMQs today, Keir Starmer called for a general election. Now, with his government collapsing, Boris Johnson seems to be…
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Shameless Tories scramble to join Johnson’s sinking ship
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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PMQs today: Boris Johnson is clinging on
It was confirmation, if anyone needed it, that the Prime Minister will not resign.
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Will Starmer’s “make Brexit work” strategy win over voters?
The announcement is part of the Labour leader’s desire to be both electable and radical.
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Starmer borrows from Corbyn to fill his blank slate
Labour has announced two policies from the 2019 manifesto in the days since Starmer declared that he was “starting from…
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Is Keir Starmer bold enough to succeed?
Tinkering is not an option – the Labour leader needs a radical programme to undo the damage wrought by the…
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Keir Starmer: Labour is “starting from scratch”
The Labour leader confirmed he has ditched the 2019 Labour Party manifesto.
In Westminster, change is stirring: Tory hegemony is under threat
The Conservatives are in trouble. The overwhelming likelihood is that Keir Starmer will be the next prime minister.
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Joe Biden “dislikes Boris Johnson for his racist treatment of Obama”
Professor Sarah Churchwell said that the US president and Kamala Harris, his vice-president, distrust the Prime Minister.
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Keir Starmer: If you don’t change your views, you won’t succeed
The Labour leader has confirmed that he has scrapped the party’s 2019 manifesto.
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“We don’t want to see NHS strikes”: Wes Streeting and Rachel Reeves on Labour in an age of inflation
The shadow chancellor and shadow health secretary open up about the opposition’s plan for the economy.
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Keir Starmer’s stance on the strikes is a betrayal of the people who need Labour
These are new and extreme times for the economy and they demand a new political approach.
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Who in the cabinet has the courage to challenge Boris Johnson?
What the Tory rebellion has lacked all along is a Michael Heseltine-style figure.
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Shadow ministers rail against Starmer’s picket-line ban
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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PMQs today: Starmer turns the strikes to his advantage
The Labour leader is using industrial action as a chance to frame the Tories as the party of the rich.
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Labour must end its denial over Brexit
Leaving the EU has been an economic and geopolitical disaster for the UK – when will Keir Starmer say so?
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