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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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Blue Labour on MAGA Square: Maurice Glasman’s Journey to Trumpism
Jon Bloomfield and David Edgar look at the nationalist populist drift of Labour’s anti-progressive tendency
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“My Party Today Would Not Create the NHS”: Labour MP Condemns Government Refusal to Look at ‘Who Owns Our Water’
“I’ve got a Government that has a computer for a political brain” says Clive Lewis after fellow Labour MPs line up to reject his Water Bill
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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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‘Rachel Reeves’ Unimaginative Spring Statement Missed Its Moment’
The Chancellor could have turned this crisis into an opportunity for a radical shakeup of Britain’s relationship with Europe and the world, but instead reverted to economic orthodoxy, argues Simon Nixon
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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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The Government’s Housing Bill Branded a ‘Licence To Kill’ Protected Species for Property Developers
Environmental groups and conservationists slam the Government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill
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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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‘Anneliese Dodds’s Principled Resignation Should Be a Warning for Keir Starmer’
The International Development Secretary’s departure was overshadowed by world events this week, but it risks having a much longer lasting impact on the Government’s fortunes, argues Neal Lawson
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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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‘No, Gen Z Do Not Want to Be Ruled by a Dictator’
The media has been full of incredibly dubious claims that young people want to be ruled by a dictatorship. The reality is very different, argues Natasha Devon
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‘This One London School Offers a Beacon of Hope for Transforming Our Education System’
This is a real time petri dish experiment on how to transform Britain’s education system, 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 Government Votes to Block UN Plan to Tackle Global Tax Avoidance
The UK has joined with the United States and a handful of other rich nations in rejecting the UN push
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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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The Elon Musk Online Outriders Hoping to Take Control of UK Politics and Oust Keir Starmer
The world’s richest man is amplifying a series of often extreme Alt Right voices bent on radically reshaping our politics
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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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‘If I Die, So Be It’: Mother of British-Egyptian Prisoner Alaa Abd El-Fattah Speaks Out on Hunger Strike
After 115 days without food, activist and mathematics professor Laila Soueif speaks about her British-Egyptian son’s ongoing detention and her determination to secure his release
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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
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Joining the EU Single Market Could Be the Gamechanger for Keir Starmer’s Government
Both the UK economy and the new Labour Government needs an urgent shot in the arm. Could this be the solution?
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‘Elon Musk’s Venal ‘Rape Genocide’ Claims About Keir Starmer and Grooming Gangs Are Absurd’
The truth is Starmer made profound improvements to tackling crimes against women and girls while Director of Public Prosecutions, reveals a veteran barrister
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‘I Am Troubled When the BBC Treats This as a Serious Story’
Keir Starmer’s biographer Tom Baldwin on how the national broadcaster has helped to amplify Elon Musk’s lies
