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Budget 2024: The Elephant in the Room is that Brexit Has Made Britain a Much Poorer Place
The unspoken truth of Rachel Reeves’ Budget is that leaving the EU has left Britain permanently worse off
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Will Labour Restore the BBC to the National Broadcaster We Need It To Be – Or Believe It Can Benefit from a Subservient Corporation Afraid to Hold Power to Account?
Starmer’s Government has an opportunity to reverse years of Conservative attacks on impartiality and independence – our democracy requires it to act beyond narrow party interests, former BBC producer and journalist Patrick Howse writes
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‘Keir Starmer’s Belief that Endless Growth Creates Stability is a Dangerously False Misrepresentation of the Situation we face’
A fixation with economic growth has led humanity to the brink of catastrophe, argues Tom Scott
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How the US Presidential Election may Turn November’s European Political Community Summit Into a Fight Over Ukraine
The summit, which is being hosted by Hungry’s far-right President Viktor Orbán, will take place days after the US goes to the polls.
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Keir Starmer’s First 100 Days in Power: A Report Card
The Prime Minister reached the milestone as his popularity plummets in the aftermath of a freebies scandal and Sue Gray’s resignation. But has it all been bad?
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Claim of a Deal Between The Sun and Starmer Is ‘Conspiracy Theory Created For Clicks’, News UK Insiders Say
‘No such deal was done with Starmer. It simply did not happen’, one of a number of sources told Byline Times
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Major Construction Company Goes Bust Halting Labour Plans for Prisons and Schools
The Ministry of Justice has confirmed that 24 projects in the prison service have been halted, and two schemes involving new courts were affected
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‘Keir Starmer is Playing Right Into his Political Opponents’ Hands’
The Labour leader’s failure to define his own Premiership is allowing his enemies to do it for him
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Keir and Loathing: Proudly Unpopular Starmer Gives Labour Supporters Little to Cheer About
The Prime Minister’s conference speech did little to lift the mood of disappointment and unease surrounding his fledgling administration
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‘Time to Think Outside the Box, Keir Starmer: Open a Cross-Channel Safe Route for Asylum Seekers’
This is the real way to smash the people-smuggling gangs, writes Professor Derrick Wyatt
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Keir Starmer’s Partial Israeli Arms Embargo Has Pleased Nobody
The Government’s constant attempts to second guess its critics are only disappointing its supporters and emboldening its opponents
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Smoking Ban: The Conservative Party Suffers a Severe Case of Smoke-Induced Amnesia
From smoking, to taxes, to cronyism, Rishi Sunak’s party is desperate for us to forget everything that happened until just last month
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‘Citizens’ Assemblies Could Wake Keir Starmer up to Reversing Brexit ‘
Polls show the public would now vote to rejoin the EU, so why isn’t the Prime Minister listening?
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Keir Starmer’s Suspension of Seven Labour MPs for Voting to Scrap the Two Child Benefit Cap is the Politics of Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings
Some Labour MPs are furious about the “draconian” treatment of those who voted to lift children out of poverty
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Yvette Cooper’s Post-Rwanda Immigration Plans
The new Labour Government should abandon all of the failed hostile approaches to migration and asylum pursued by its predecessors, argues Zoe Gardner
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Labour Fails to Deny Secret Murdoch Deal to Drop Leveson Press Inquiry in Exchange for Endorsements
A spokesperson said the party took the decision to drop its commitment to complete the official inquiry into press corruption, “in the interests of the country”
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‘Assassination Attempts and the Rise of the Right – Amid the Turmoil, Britain is Emerging as a Steadying Force’
As world leaders brace themselves for another potential Trump presidency, Prime Minister Keir Starmer is quickly re-establishing the UK’s global influence
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The Longest Suicide Note in History: How Britain Rejected the Conservative Hard Right
Rishi Sunak’s historic defeat was a direct result of a decade of ideological hard-right policies that have decimated our political and social fabric
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‘Labour Won’t Reverse Brexit But a Starmer Victory Will Lead to an Immediate Reset of Trust and Goodwill with the EU’
While we should not expect too much of an incoming Labour government, we should not forget just how dark the last few years have been, writes Chris Grey
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Labour and ‘Negative Cohesion’: Who’s Afraid of Starmageddon?
The Conservatives are about to pay the price for 14 years of epic misrule. But while a Labour ‘supermajority’ is in the best interests of the country, it is no guarantee of a return to stability, argues Simon Nixon
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Starmer’s ‘Supermajority’: A Product of Conservative Propaganda and Client Journalism
How a Conservative campaign line became the weaponised mantra of the Daily Mail – and infected the entire general election campaign
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‘The Great Noticing’: What the Reaction to Keir Starmer’s Friday Night Dinners Tells us About the Hypocrisy of the Conservative Press
As Labour heads towards Government, large parts of the press are suddenly starting to notice things they have spent the past 14 years ignoring
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The Likely Labour MPs Who Lobbied Against Key Party Policies – Amid Concerns of ‘Whole New Raft of Scandals’
Prospective Labour candidates have worked as lobbyists for trade bodies and companies that will have a vested interests in shifting the party’s key election pledges in government
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A Tale of Two Very Different Debates: Biden and Trump’s Horror Show, Sunak and Starmer’s No Surprises
From lies, incompetence, porn, and golfing bravo in the US – to dull and boring, with a side of rude and shouty in the UK
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Dismay as Starmer Backs Westminster’s ‘Winner Takes All’ Voting System as Labour Eyes Big Majority
During his Labour leadership election, Starmer hinted at backing proportional representation. But he now appears to support continuing with Westminster’s First Past The Post voting system
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The Conservative Voters Secretly Hoping for a ‘Wipeout’ of Rishi Sunak’s Party
Exclusive new polling finds that even among current Conservative voters, many believe a wipeout for the party would actually be a “positive” result
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‘Keir Starmer’s Defence of the Two Child Benefit Cap is Indefensible’
The Labour leader’s refusal to commit to scrapping George Osborne’s austerity-era policy risks committing hundreds of thousands more children into poverty
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Rishi Sunak’s D-Day Dodging Shows he has Abandoned his National Service
The Prime Minister, who wants to force young people to spend an entire year of their lives serving their country, wouldn’t even devote one afternoon to it himself
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The Truth About Immigration That Sunak and Starmer Aren’t Willing to Tell you About
Both party leaders are promising to slash immigration numbers without being honest about the big costs it will inevitably bring to our economy and public services
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Leaders Debate: Rishi Sunak Desperately Tries to Save Failing Campaign With Vote Leave Style Tax Lie
Conservative-supporting newspapers today lead on an already repeatedly-debunked lie about Labour’s tax plans
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The Big Questions Nigel Farage Should be Asked by the Media
Why is a party with so few elected representatives and even fewer ideas being given such an easy ride?
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‘Diane Abbott’s Treatment Raises Big Concerns About Racism and Factionalism in the Labour Party’
Labour figures from across Keir Starmer’s party are furious about her treatment by the leadership
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Rishi Sunak Says no Rwanda Flights Will Take Off Before General Election – Spelling Likely Death of Toxic Scheme
The Prime Minister’s admission means the Government’s “dream” of sending refugees to the brutal Rwandan dictatorship looks all but over
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Six Things Keir Starmer’s ‘Six Steps’ Tell us About the Labour Party
The Labour leader’s new six ‘first steps’ for Government reveal a lot about the kind of administration he plans to lead
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Labour MPs are ‘Furious’ with Starmer Over Defection of Hard-Right Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke
One Labour MP described the decision to take Natalie Elphicke as a “disgrace” that would “come back to bite us”
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‘Keir Starmer’s General Election Reality and Why Comparisons with Tony Blair’s Victory Are Problematic’
Professor Chris Painter explores the likely determinants of the next general election outcome – which polls consistently predict Labour will win
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The Local Election Results Flush the Conservative Party’s Culture War Strategy Down the Gender Neutral Toilet
The Conservative party’s strategy of trying to win the general election through a mixture of ‘culture wars and the trans debate’ is only worsening their defeats to Labour
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Sadiq Khan Tones Down Calls for Rent Controls in Capital after Keir Starmer Appears to Reject Plan
Several senior Labour figures have publicly rejected calls for rent controls, leaving the London Mayor in a tricky spot
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‘Rishi Sunak’s Delay in Calling an Election May Help the Conservatives – But it Could Benefit Labour More’
The Conservatives may be hoping that ‘something will turn up’ to ease the inevitable – but they are also giving Labour time to prepare for power and form a bedrock of support, writes Mike Buckley
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‘A Keir Starmer Government Will Trigger a Revival of the Labour Left’
The Labour party leader’s long marginalisation of the Left cannot survive the realities of Government, argues his former advisor Simon Fletcher
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Rishi Sunak Will Leave a Long List of ‘Big Nasties’ for the Next Government to Clear Up
A new Parliamentary report reveals a catalogue of ‘broken promises and wasted cash’ which will cost hundreds of billions of pounds for the Government’s successors to fix
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The Conservative Party’s Disinformation Machine
Sadiq Khan is the latest victim of a sustained campaign of misinformation and outright lies from the Conservative party
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‘Starmer Cosied Up to the Murdoch Press in the Same Week It Faced New Allegations of Criminality – Why?’
The latest legal claims allege that law-breaking at the Murdoch tabloids has been even more widespread and systematic than previously acknowledged
