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‘Keir Starmer’s Attempt to Out-Farage Reform on Migration Will Only End Badly’
The Prime Minister’s ‘unutterably depressing’ decision to follow Nigel Farage into the gutter of inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric is a terrible error, argues former UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘The Cold Electoral Cynicism Behind Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy’
The Prime Minister’s advisers believe that when push comes to shove most progressive voters will have no real choice but to vote Labour, and they may be right, argues Neal Lawson
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No10 Refuses to Release Keir Starmer WhatsApp Information Despite Labour Transparency Pledge
Starmer had pledged to end the “outrageous way government departments refuse freedom of information requests”.
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Local Elections: ‘Keir Starmer’s Rightward Shift Is Laying the Ground for Nigel Farage’
Labour’s embrace of economic and political orthodoxy is forcing voters to look elsewhere for change, argues Keir Starmer’s former adviser Simon Fletcher
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‘Peter Mandelson’s Fixing of Keir Starmer’s Visit to Spytech Firm Palantir Raises Serious Questions’
Palantir was represented by a lobbying firm founded by Mandelson, Iain Overton and Max Colbert report
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‘Keir Starmer’s Weaponisation of Foreign National Crime Statistics Risks Stoking Violence and Empowering the Far Right’
Ranking crimes by nationality risks stoking a repeat of last summer’s racist riots, argues Minnie Rahman, who urges ministers to focus on fairness and rehabilitation instead
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‘Disability, Illness and Impairment are the Norms of Human History – Living Through This Labour Government’s Benefits Cuts Is Brutal’
Cutting disability benefits will do nothing but heighten the scapegoating of disabled people once again – how can a Labour Government introduce such a punitive measure? Penny Pepper asks
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‘What Is the Point of Labour Winning the Next General Election if It Governs as Reform-Lite?’
The political strategy being pursued by Keir Starmer and his advisers means that whichever party comes first in 2029, Nigel Farage wins, argues Neal Lawson
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‘The Free Speech Debate Has a Lot to Do With Race – But the Media Won’t Tell You That’
The ‘sheer hypocrisy’ of the UK’s right-wing media in celebrating Trump’s ‘free speech ultimatum’
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Keir Starmer Urged to Seize a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity for Real House of Lords Reform
The Prime Minister previously watered down his commitment to “abolish” Parliament’s unelected second chamber
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The Dead End of Keir Starmer’s ‘British Cars for British Workers’ Trump Cosplay
The Prime Minister’s attempts to embrace Trump-style rhetoric, while rejecting everything that rhetoric implies, risks making him look ridiculous, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘The Anti-Democratic Tyranny of the Office For Budget Responsibility’
A decades-long trend of outsourcing democratic decisions to unaccountable institutions like the OBR is leading Britain towards ruin, argues Neal Lawson
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‘A Trump Trade Deal Would Open the UK’s Doors to the Big Tech Robber Barons’
The only deal the US President and his oligarch beneficiaries are interested in is one that would allow them to feast on our public services and consumer rights, argues Nick Dearden
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Keir Starmer Plans to Crack Down on Political Interference by Foreign Billionaire Donors
The Prime Minister is under pressure to close legal loopholes that would allow tech billionaire and Donald Trump aide Elon Musk to funnel millions of dollars into right-wing political parties in the UK
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‘Trump’s Betrayal of America’s Closest Allies Should Be a Wake Up Call for the UK’
The UK Government’s attempts to bridge the divide between Europe and the White House are rapidly running out of road, argues Alexandra Hall Hall
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The False Economies of Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement
There is nothing “responsible” about forcing hundreds of thousands of people into poverty, while putting even more strain on those public servants who will have to pick up the pieces, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘Keir Starmer’s Government Should Stop the Austerity Denial About These Cuts’
The uncomfortable truth about Starmer and Reeves’s economic project is it is grim for living standards, public services and recipients of welfare, and should be opposed by all, argues his former senior adviser Simon Fletcher
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Spring Statement: ‘Rachel Reeves Must Remember What Labour Is Actually For’
Unless the Labour party reconnects with its founding economic mission, they will merely lay the ground for a Nigel Farage Government, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Israel’s Genocide in Gaza is the Fatal Flaw in Starmer’s European Alternative to Trump and Putin’
If we are to build a broad consensus in Europe against Trump, we need to bring Palestine into equal focus with Ukraine, argues Martin Shaw
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‘No-One Voted for These Cruel Cuts – We Need a Wealth Tax Instead’
Keir Starmer must change course from this performative cruelty towards the sick and disabled, argues Neal Lawson
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Donald Trump, Keir Starmer and the Myth of Liberal ‘Returnism’
If liberal centrists on both sides of the Atlantic simply keep waiting for politics to return to “normal” they risk a very rude awakening, argues Neal Lawson
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Starmer’s Moment of Truth: ‘Britain Must Align Itself with Europe’s Regulated Capitalism and Collective Security’
The PM’s pronouncement that Britain need not choose between the US and Europe is ‘downright reckless’ and an ‘exercise in dangerous delusion’, argues Clive Lewis
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Keir Starmer’s ‘Geo-Political Minefield’ Between Donald Trump and Europe
With Starmer thrust into a damage limitation exercise by the Ukraine crisis, Chris Painter reflects on the fluctuating relations between British Prime Ministers and American Presidents.
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‘It’s Time to End the Trump Denialism and Admit the US Is No Longer Europe’s Ally’
Keir Starmer’s attempts to be an “honest broker” with Donald Trump are doomed to failure, argues Adam Bienkov
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‘Trump’s Embrace of Putin Should Push the UK Back Towards the EU’
The UK must accept that its economic and political interests now lean heavily towards Europe, argues Richard Barfield
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‘Blind Rearmament Won’t Counter the Threats from Putin and Trump’
With the US potentially allied to Russia over the fate of Ukraine, there needs to be a root and branch rethinking of British and European security
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‘Keir Starmer Must Embrace Proportional Representation and End the Coercive Duopoly Throttling Our Democracy’
Britain will never truly change for the better as long as Britain’s deeply unfair voting system remains in place, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Keir Starmer Must Accept These Hard Truths Before Meeting Donald Trump’
Before the Prime Minister heads to Washington he must wake up to the fact that the UK’s real allies may now lie elsewhere, argues UK diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall
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‘Keir Starmer’s Blue Labour Strategy Is an Electoral Dead End for His Government’
Labour’s attempt to mimic Nigel Farage’s Reform on immigration is a fundamental misunderstanding of its electoral base, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Keir Starmer Urgently Needs a Vision to Unite the Nation and See Off the Far-Right’
If the Government attempts to mimic the anti-migration politics of Reform it will be a recipe for defeat, argues Jennifer Nadel
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‘Donald Trump’s Gaza Ethnic Cleansing Plan Is a Call for War Crimes And the UK Must Condemn It’
It’s time for Keir Starmer’s Government to finally recognise Palestinian statehood and resist the US President’s catastrophic agenda, argues Green MP Ellie Chowns
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‘Keir Starmer’s Shallow-Rooted Political Project Is Already Starting to Topple’
By ripping out his party’s ideological roots in exchange for power, the Labour leader’s premiership has been left deeply vulnerable to the coming storm, argues Neal Lawson
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‘Labour’s Borders Bill Is a Gift to the Far-Right That Won’t Stop Boats but Will Cost Lives’
The bill will cause untold human suffering while also still failing to deter irregular migration, argues Nathan Phillips
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‘Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves Must Abandon Their Trumpian Obsession with Economic Growth’
Prioritising growth over all other considerations will only widen economic inequality and deepen already cavernous social crises, argues Neal Lawson
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Civil Service ‘Disgust’ After DWP Launches Welfare Campaign With The Sun, Which It Accuses of ‘Demonising’ Benefit Claimants
Keir Starmer has sought a closer relationship with the Murdoch-owned newspaper, under his leadership
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Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
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Government Confirms No Leveson 2 Inquiry Into the Press – After ‘Monumental’ Admission of Wrongdoing By News UK in Prince Harry Case
Murdoch’s newspaper group apologises for 15 years of privacy breaches in landmark settlement – but the Prime Minister’s office quickly dismisses calls for a fresh investigation
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‘A Simple Ban on Political Lying Could Radically Transform Our Politics’
Just one small step would trigger a whole series of positive changes to democratic life in the UK, argues Neal Lawson
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Damning Report Exposes the Sheer Scale of Britain’s Crumbling Public Sector Left by the Conservatives
It blows a hole in the party’s claim to have ‘fixed the roof while the sun is shining’
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‘Trump’s Return Must Be a Turning Point for the UK to Stop Pandering to America and Forge a Brighter Future With Europe’
Trump is taking the US in a dark direction and we must not let ourselves be dragged along with him, argues Green Party co-leader Carla Denyer
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‘The Gerry Adams Compensation Row Must Not Overshadow Decades of Trauma Inflicted on Civilians’
The priority for the UK Government is not to seek justice for the innocent civilians murdered, but to protect the state from the consequences, argues Emma De Souza
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‘More Empty Promises on Health and Social Care Let Disabled People Down Again’
Do I really need to keep saying that this is where the personal is the political? writes Penny Pepper
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‘Keir Starmer Must Join a Progressive Alliance for a Fairer Voting System or Get Steamrollered by a Reform-Conservative Pact’
The Labour Government is heading for an electoral reckoning unless it backs a more proportional voting system, argues Neal Lawson
