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Starmer's victory speech was a display of humble realism
The New Statesman· 56 minutes agoThe crowds erupted with joy when Keir Starmer and his wife Victoria got out of their car on Downing...
How Labour can govern for working people
The New Statesman· 1 hour agoThe Conservatives brutally ejected from office. When I congratulated Keir Starmer this morning my message to him was clear. The trade union movement...
The SNP has finally been punished
The New Statesman· 6 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...
The highs and lows of election night coverage
The New Statesman· 1 hour agoAfter a banal and frustrating campaign, the broadcasters threw everything they had into election night – and they offered viewers and listeners more...
The Lib Dems could become the opposition
The New Statesman· 2 days agoCould Ed Davey become the first Liberal leader since Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1900 to become His Majesty’s Leader of the Opposition? Survation...
Labour has won the election – it hasn’t won the argument
The New Statesman· 9 hours agoKeir Starmer’s task of earning his majority begins today.
Sunak’s honours list faces a Starmer peer review
The New Statesman· 3 days agoYour weekly dose of gossip from the campaign trail.
Keir Starmer wins – but he must deliver quickly
The New Statesman· 5 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...
Labour has been sent a warning
The New Statesman· 5 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...
The Tory media has gone into meltdown
The New Statesman· 6 days agoThe thing no one tells you about the stages of grief is that they are not, in fact, stages. This exhausted government has not left this mortal plane...
