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Anne Mcelvoy

Anne Mcelvoy

The Guardian

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Competing visions and twinges of envy: it's Angela Rayner vs Rachel Reeves

26.05.2025 10

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Starmer’s finally got his big EU deal - but he needs to keep it quiet

18.05.2025 10

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Apeing the language of the far right costs Starmer his credibility

13.05.2025 2

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Here comes the boldest change to immigration in decades - and the riskiest

12.05.2025 10

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Brexit reset is under threat from the rise of the new right

07.05.2025 10

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Reform has what Labour used to have: momentum, and now the middle classes

04.05.2025 7

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Donald Trump has every reason to fear Mark Carney

29.04.2025 4

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Virginia Giuffre's death leaves a legacy of shame for her abusers

27.04.2025 3

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Rachel Reeves is flying into Trump's firestorm - and it will cost the UK

22.04.2025 4

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Pope Francis embodied the paradox of politics and papacy

21.04.2025 10

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Under Putin, there will never be a real Ukraine peace-deal

20.04.2025 10

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New legal definition of a woman is a gift to Keir Starmer

16.04.2025 3

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A more cuddly JD Vance has emerged - I wonder why

16.04.2025 4

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This steel deal is a quick fix which highlights flaws rather than solving them

13.04.2025 7

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The cracks in Trump's inner circle are showing

08.04.2025 5

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In Trump's new world order, Starmer needs more than excuses

07.04.2025 10

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Trump's tariff bazooka will blast the UK, and Starmer has only one choice

01.04.2025 8

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Starmer needs to tell Labour’s story – before others do it for him

30.03.2025 10

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JD Vance revealed how he feels about Trump - and it will cost him

25.03.2025 5

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Rachel Reeves is relaunching by raiding the Tory filing cabinet

24.03.2025 7

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Kemi’s on a kill mission – and net zero is her target

19.03.2025 5

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How Reeves unleashed a Labour revolt with a welfare cut too far

17.03.2025 20

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Russia's response to drone attacks was highly revealing

11.03.2025 4

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Trump and Starmer's relationship is going one way: drama

04.03.2025 10

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Trump's state visit is growing riskier by the day for Keir Starmer

02.03.2025 2

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Europe is in a flap over this 'black swan' event

25.02.2025 4

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Starmer is walking a tightrope

24.02.2025 5

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Russia's plan is to lie outright and then hope for a handshake

19.02.2025 3

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Europe doesn't need to dance to Trump's tune

17.02.2025 8

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As a Gen X-er, I reckon politicians get Gen Z badly wrong

11.02.2025 4

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Dominic Cummings is our Elon Musk - without the rocket fuel

09.02.2025 10

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Inside the Tory party's Reform nightmare

04.02.2025 2

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Starmer's leadership is about to be tested by a trade tug of war

03.02.2025 4

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Yvette Cooper has made a terrible, glaring mistake

28.01.2025 10

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Goodbye, Rachel from accounts – and hello to a radical, ruthless Chancellor

26.01.2025 5

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It is hard to talk about the Southport killings – and Reform is filling the void

24.01.2025 6

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Starmer can't sit on the fence if Trump takes on Iran

20.01.2025 4

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Rachel Reeves's biggest problem is how vulnerable she looks

15.01.2025 20

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Lisa Nandy’s radical plan won’t save the BBC

12.01.2025 4

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I interviewed Trudeau - he was always aware of his vulnerability

I too have felt the full beam of the Justin Trudeau charm – and watched it wane. Ten years ago, when the suave heir to a political liberal dynasty...

07.01.2025 3

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The Tulip Siddiq saga shows just how naïve Labour is

George Orwell’s Animal Farm is the sturdiest of political satires for good reason. At the end of the account of a failed revolution by the porcine...

05.01.2025 10

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Zelensky wants more than just survival - that's why he needs Syria

Two countries thousands of miles apart begin 2025 with their fates linked in blood by the interventions of Russia and their consequences. One is...

01.01.2025 2

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The fight for the right is a gift to struggling Starmer

What would the period between turkey and New Year’s Day detox be without a row to enliven the torpor? The Reform-Conservative spat livened up the...

29.12.2024 5

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The biggest risk for Rachel Reeves

Rachel Reeves hosted a Downing Street bash for MPs, associates and children this week – part of her charm offensive to reassure colleagues and...

22.12.2024 4

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Prince Andrew's naivety just made Keir Starmer's job much harder

It must be bad, because Prince Andrew is ceasing all contact with yet another figure whose public face may have cloaked sinister purposes. A senior...

15.12.2024 5

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Assad will soon discover that Moscow is a prison with a valet service

Well, it is better than a billing at the International Criminal Court or, more expeditiously, being hung from a Damascus lamp post in a feast of...

10.12.2024 10

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Angela Rayner will become the unpopular face of Labour's housing plan

Angela Rayner always makes an impact. Watching her on stage at the Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year awards last week was a blast as she...

08.12.2024 3

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Starmer faces more than one choice between the EU and US – he has many ahead

To govern is to choose between disadvantages, as the wily General de Gaulle diagnosed. Keir Starmer is less categoric. At the Lord Mayor’s...

05.12.2024 4

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Pub quiz question: can you remember Keir Starmer's 'five bold missions'?

The early months of this Government have been rock and roll – and not in a Rolling Stones kind of way. Sore heads about rising taxes and farmland...

05.12.2024 50

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Rod Stewart shows that retirement is just for the middle classes

Rod Stewart is playing Glastonbury next year at the age of 80, beating Stevie Wonder, rumoured to also be performing, at a mere 74. Elton John did...

26.11.2024 4

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