Can Starmer stop the Tory dinosaurs blocking the House of Lords?
The Conservatives are using their majority over Labour in the upper chamber to thwart the government’s agenda
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Why Starmer won’t condemn Trump on Venezuela
The real worry is whether the PM still has any influence over the US president
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Blue Labour is fighting for its future
Labour’s slow fracture is leaving space for organised insurgent factions
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Can the Lib Dems escape obscurity?
Ed Davey on charges that he’s not cutting through and why he’s “obsessed” with politically homeless Tories.
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The soft left helped make Starmer – could it break him?
The government’s rightwards drift is uniting past ideological foes.
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Labour can’t agree on how to fight Farage
The party is split between Starmerites focused on delivery and a soft left demanding greater radicalism.
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The special relationship that wasn’t
British prime ministers keep putting faith in Washington, and it keeps letting them down.
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Are Unite and Labour heading for divorce?
The union’s disaffiliation threat is real but its leader Sharon Graham fears the “personality cult” of a new left party.
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