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The not quite moving right show
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThe general election saw a redoubtable Reform UK win 14 per cent of the vote and five parliamentary seats on a hardline anti-immigrant platform; it paved...
How Jeremy Hunt survived the breaking of the Blue Wall
The New Statesman· 1 day ago“This is the Holy Grail,” one Lib Dem told me as we sat waiting for the count in Godalming and Ash....
What does Labour's win mean for the green transition?
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThis article was originally published as an edition of the Green Transition, New Statesman...
The highs and lows of election night coverage
The New Statesman· 2 days 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· 2 days agoThe Conservatives brutally ejected from office. When I congratulated Keir Starmer this morning my message to him was clear. The trade union movement...
Keir Starmer wins – but he must deliver quickly
The New Statesman· 2 days 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· 2 days 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...
The Conservatives invited this disaster
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThis is an election result that leaves the Conservative Party fighting for its life. The oldest and most successful political party in the country –...
Labour’s precarious triumph
The New Statesman· 2 days agoAfter one of the worst defeats in its history, Labour has achieved one of its biggest victories. Upon becoming leader in 2020, Keir Starmer observed that...
Labour has won the election – it hasn’t won the argument
The New Statesman· 2 days agoKeir Starmer’s task of earning his majority begins today.