Eluned Morgan: Labour’s last first minister?
The New Statesman sits down with the Welsh First Minister
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.
In Gorton and Denton, the Muslim vote is fracturing
Voters have decisively turned against Labour
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Reform is looking beatable
The party is losing rather than gaining popularity – but can Labour benefit?
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Starmer humiliated Wormald – but his problems with the Blob remain
The civil service believes it must deliver or risk being replaced
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Starmer’s war with Big Tech
Banning social media for under-16s gives the PM a chance to unite his party and the country
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Keir Starmer’s identity crisis
Can a new personality save the Prime Minister?
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MPs plot to stop Lords from killing assisted dying bill
The bill’s backers fear there is a strong chance it could run out of time
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Why is Labour so unpopular?
The party has far more signature failures than successes
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Starmer’s avoidable Lords nightmare
The Prime Minister should have kept his promise not to appoint peers
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Why you hate Keir Starmer
Britain’s loathing for the Prime Minister is as personal as it is political
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Will the crises ever go away?
Britain is struggling to maintain its spirit of quiet optimism
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Labour’s stealth leftism
The party’s next era will be defined by a shift in vibes rather than policy
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Keir Starmer: “I am going to fight”
After a week of peril, the Prime Minister is determined to fight on
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Morgan McSweeney’s political obituary
His failure is symptomatic of a deeper ideological crisis at the heart of Labour
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Anas Sarwar’s epic misfire
After the Scottish Labour leader’s failed coup, what can we think other than “it’s over”?
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How Keir Starmer survives
The Prime Minister’s best hope is to cut a deal with the soft left
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Tracker: Labour MP statements on Starmer’s future
Which MPs say Keir Starmer should stay, and which say he should go?
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McSweeney, Mandelson and the stain of New Labour
We must dispense with the failed politics and toxic methods of the Blairites for good
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Jacqui Smith: Changing leaders doesn’t solve the problem
The New Labour big beast speaks out on Andy Burnham and Starmer’s future
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What is Angela Rayner up to?
As Starmer’s authority withers, Rayner has made a series of choice interventions
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