A ritual dance takes place after every economic statistic is issued: regardless of the figures, Labour ministers complain about their economic inheritance, while the Conservatives insist they bequeathed an economy...
Why is the Starmer government so reluctant to talk about the root causes of the riots? Although Keir Starmer was quick to blame the violent disorder on “far-right thuggery”, I’m...
Rachel Reeves began that task today, in an important Commons statement in which she said the Treasury had found a £22bn black hole in this year’s Budget left by the...
The UK is “not immune” from the rise in nationalism and populism on the continent, Keir Starmer told The New Statesman’s summer party on Monday. “Do not think for a...
A parliamentary showdown between Keir Starmer and Labour’s band of left-wing MPs was inevitable — though it wasn’t expected quite so soon. The prime minister was always going to deal...
It was mission accomplished for the first phase of Keir Starmer’s “reset” of Britain’s relations with the EU at the European Political Community summit at Blenheim Palace. The prime minister...
It has become a standing joke at Westminster. Keir Starmer bangs on about being “the son of a toolmaker”, while Rishi Sunak constantly reminds us his father was a GP...
For Keir Starmer, the road to Downing Street has always run through Scotland. Until a year ago, Labour had a proverbial mountain to climb north of the border: in the...
Dame Alison Rose’s resignation as NatWest chief executive was no surprise, after she admitted last night that she was the source of the BBC story about why Nigel Farage was...
For months, Conservative and Labour politicians have presumed we are either heading for a general election like 1992, when Tories under John Major defied the opinion polls to spring a...
Political columnist for The Independent.
