Keir Starmer

The paper increased their attacks on the Labour leader after he said he planned to outlaw the non-dom tax status

The prime minister wasn't born a fascist. But his incompetence and desperation to survive is certainly driving him in that direction

Comedian MITCH BENN on the government’s rather telling blank-eyed incomprehension of Keir Starmer’s pledge to resign should he be given a fixed penalty notice

The right-wing press are wrongly trying to convince readers Keir Starmer and Boris Johnson are just as bad as each other. The reality couldn't be more different

The Sunday Times and the Daily Mail more or less engaged in a stand-up row over the weekend

Keir Starmer must banish the obsolete and the utopian, says the former foreign secretary in a speech to mark the 25th anniversary of New Labour’s triumph

Rothermere, who pays minimal tax on account of his non-dom status, appears to be fretting about Starmer's pledge to abolish the loophole

We are stronger together in Europe – and stronger in making that case together in the Labour Movement for Europe

A disjointed Conservative party would create future opportunity to rejoin the EU, says one reader

Remainers are in despair at Labour’s determination to seek the “advantages” of Brexit rather than call for Rejoin. But what if their leader is right?

The British response to the invasion of Ukraine illustrates why the sickness in the Conservative party goes beyond Boris Johnson, writes one reader

Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine is a watershed moment. But the democratic West's response has been encouragingly robust

He's repaired the damage done by Corbynism, but is this enough when Starmer and his shadow cabinet have failed to lay Labour's policies out? Asks one reader

Many in Keir Starmer’s party now believe a wounded Boris Johnson staying in power offers their best chance of election victory

'Cutting the red tape' was always an easy message to sell. But, philosopher NIGEL WARBURTON warns us not to get beguiled by the imagery of political rhetoric

Long may Johnson limp on, writes one reader. He's become an electoral liability which will only continue to work in the opposition's favour.

Keir Starmer opted for the backdrop of a Union flag while he delivered a keynote speech. It may look like a prop, but we can't ignore it, writes NIGEL WARBURTON.

What would Jeremy Corbyn's new political party mean for the Left? Perhaps he should just apologise for dismissing anti-semitism and leave the next move to Labour, says SUNA ERDEM.

Bolstered by Tory scandals and a new shadow cabinet, Keir Starmer should heed a newly published account of one of his party’s darkest hours, which turns the Red Wall narrative on its head.

The Labour leader's early legal life was fuelled by risk-averse stories and redactions.

With his decisive shadow cabinet reshuffle, Keir Starmer may have reached his Clark Kent moment.

One spectator sport this summer has been watching politicians try to tie their fortunes to the England team. Such efforts are as doomed to failure as, ultimately, Gareth Southgate’s team was.

He might seem to be unharmed by the scandals he presides over, but Boris Johnson’s position is more vulnerable than it looks. The fall will come, and it will be swift, brutal and comprehensive

The effective slow disenfranchisement of the white working-class vote is Labour’s biggest problem in the Batley and Spen by-election

The news that John Bercow was joining the Labour Party came as much a surprise to Sir Keir Starmer as everyone else.

Priti Patel has said she does not support England’s footballers taking the knee in protest against racial injustice, labelling the act “gesture politics”. The home secretary did not condemn football fans who had booed players for taking the knee, calling it a “choice for them” after Gareth Southgate’s side faced jeers from a minority of […]

Yvette Cooper is one of Labour’s most effective politicians, so could she one day replace Keir Starmer?

Boris Johnson has been ‘rattled’ by the evidence given by Dominic Cummings into his handling of the Covid-19 outbreak, Sir Keir Starmer has told MPs. Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir pointed out that Johnson denied the cabinet secretary told him to fire the health secretary for lying but had not denied the other claims put forward […]

Sir Keir Starmer should avoid turning Labour into a “Blairite tribute band”, former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned. He told BBC Two’s Newsnight the party should become more radical following setbacks in recent elections. McDonnell, who stood down from the shadow cabinet in 2019, claimed there was “disillusionment” with Labour, “particularly among younger people”. A […]

Keir Starmer is under pressure from within his own party to make electoral reform a manifesto commitment following four consecutive general election losses and the recent local election setbacks. The pressure comes after a recent Best for Britain poll had shown at least half of its respondents backed electoral reform to make the number of elected representatives […]

Keir Starmer has spoken for the first time about the tragedy of losing his mother before she was able to see him become an MP. Speaking to Piers Morgan for an upcoming episode of ITV’s Life Stories programme, the Labour leader revealed the pain of watching his mother Jo’s health deteriorate as he closed in […]

Losing the Batley and Spen by-election would mean “curtains” for Labour leader Keir Starmer, former shadow home secretary Diane Abbott has suggested. Abbott, an ally of left-wing former party leader Jeremy Corbyn, used an article in the Guardian to claim Starmer’s time at the top of the party could be over if he fails to […]