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Nic Aubury’s 4-line poem: On Hold

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See inside the Cheer up, Keir! edition

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The promise Starmer should have broken

Keir Starmer pledged no tax rises for working people, yet that’s impossible. Unless, of course, he drops his red lines on the single market and customs union
The portrait of Margaret Thatcher, commissioned by Gordon Brown in 2007, which has been taken down from Keir Starmer’s office after he found it ‘unsettling’. Photo: Richard Stone

Framing Starmer

How a biographer’s aside, the Mail’s performative outrage and the BBC’s cowardice led to a media storm over a portrait of Mrs Thatcher