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Andy Burnham is now prime minister in all but name. He has three weeks to find a credible fiscal plan, decide who his chancellor will be, and reassure...
Sir Keir Starmer did the decent thing and fell on his sword. They may even miss him when he’s gone. His voice cracked when he spoke of his wife Vic,...
Sir Keir Starmer has not spoken to his probable successor as prime minister since the day Andy Burnham was selected to fight Makerfield on May 19....
In his exchanges with Lord Peter Mandelson, Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden gave a quote about Labour MPs’ attitude to bringing the...
Bruised, battered, but still in post. There is a world – unthinkable at some points last week – where Sir Keir Starmer could still be in No 10...
Like in a game of tennis, Wes Streeting just very firmly lobbed the ball into Angela Rayner’s court. Rayner had dropped a breakfast time 130mph...
Say one thing for Wes Streeting, the man has more front than Brighton. He sat in the House of Commons chamber, only slightly self-conscious, chuckling...
“Oi, Wes Streeting. Come and ‘ave a go if you think you’re ‘ard enough,” knight of the realm Sir Keir Starmer definitely did not say at the...
Was it enough? We will find out later today when Labour MPs make their kangaroo court WhatsApp judgments on Sir Keir Starmer’s future and share them...
When Catherine West, an obscure backbencher and former junior minister, said on Saturday she would attempt to launch a leadership bid in the days...
Nigel Farage is the ultimate political gambler, so it was fitting he used a racing metaphor to describe Reform UK’s overnight surge. He compared the...
It’s time for Zack Polanski to make a stand against the antisemitism rippling through his Green Party. Not only is it the right thing to do, it’s...
Morgan McSweeney was clear at the outset of his evidence that he advised in favour of Peter Mandelson’s appointment as UK ambassador to Washington,...
Sir Keir Starmer has been skewered this morning by two polite assassins. Even before the box office appearance by Sir Oliver Robbins, Energy Secretary...
Sir Keir Starmer couldn’t win on Monday. Either he had to admit he misled Parliament, or he had to admit how little he knew about what went on...
It’s always the cover-up that gets you in the end. Late on Thursday, No 10 moved to protect Sir Keir Starmer by saying a decision to ignore a...
After humming and hawing, Nigel Farage has said he wants to keep the triple lock on state pensions. It may be Reform’s worst mistake yet. The triple...
Peter Mandelson may have lost his prestigious posting as ambassador to Washington, resigned from the Labour Party and stepped down from an active role...
Sir Keir Starmer has a porn problem, and it could be as serious as the “Pincher moment” which did for Boris Johnson, Labour MPs are warning. In a...
You would have had to have been living under a rock this year not to take a punt that Donald Trump would attack Iran. From when the US President...
Reports of the death of the special relationship are greatly exaggerated. Donald Trump might be having a pop at Sir Keir Starmer for not immediately...
A bomb has gone off under British politics. And the fuse was lit by a blonde, working-class woman plumber with four greyhounds who relaxes by watching...