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How Jeremy Hunt survived the breaking of the Blue Wall
The New Statesman· 17 minutes ago“This is the Holy Grail,” one Lib Dem told me as we sat waiting for the count in Godalming and Ash....
Will England love the real Jude Bellingham?
The New Statesman· 17 minutes agoThis is the arc of Jude Bellingham. On TalkSport, the ex-Premier League manager René Meulensteen called his celebration against Slovakia “arrogant”,...
Labour has a mandate to change Britain's economic weather
The New Statesman· 12 hours agoBy six o’clock yesterday morning, with many seats still to declare, weary pundits could already be...
What does Labour's win mean for the green transition?
The New Statesman· 14 hours agoLabour has won a historic majority. For those sceptical about the Starmerite offering and whether...
Starmer's victory speech was a display of humble realism
The New Statesman· 16 hours agoThe crowds erupted with joy when Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria got out of their car on Downing...
The highs and lows of election night coverage
The New Statesman· 16 hours agoAfter a banal and frustrating campaign, the broadcasters threw everything they had into election night – and they offered viewers and listeners more...
How Labour can govern for working people
The New Statesman· 17 hours agoThe Conservatives brutally ejected from office. When I congratulated Keir Starmer this morning my message to him was clear. The trade union movement...
Labour has been sent a warning
The New Statesman· 20 hours agoIt allows Keir Starmer’s Labour to begin an audacious and incredibly difficult project of national rebuilding – in terms of public services, the economy...
Keir Starmer wins – but he must deliver quickly
The New Statesman· 20 hours agoLabour’s victory is muted and precarious. Its vote share could have only gone up by one or two percentage points on 2019. Starmer could be about to win a...
The SNP has finally been punished
The New Statesman· 22 hours agoBig hitters such as Joanna Cherry, Alyn Smith and Stewart McDonald are gone – each perhaps a loss to parliament, but each swept aside by a spasm of anger...