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Keir Starmer appoints a continuity cabinet
The New Statesman· 22 hours agoThere are few surprises, as Labour opts for stability over flare.
A staggering first-round victory for Marine Le Pen
The New Statesman· 6 days agoEmmanuel Macron’s political gamble has backfired.
Elbridge Colby: “I am signalling to China that my policy is status quo”
The New Statesman· 5 days agoFor about a decade, Elbridge Colby has been making a single argument in and out of government: that...
Exit poll: Labour are heading for a landslide
The New Statesman· 2 days agoLabour is on course to return to government for the first time in 14 years. The exit poll predicts the party will win 410 seats, with the Conservatives...
Labour's house of cards
The New Statesman· 1 day agoThis is the most effective distribution of the Labour vote in the party’s history. Chief campaign strategist, Morgan McSweeney, should take a bow. There...
Exit Poll: An existential defeat for the Conservatives
The New Statesman· 2 days agoThe exit poll puts the Conservatives on 133 seats. It is at the top end of the wide range of...
Labour’s first policy should be to break up the NHS
The New Statesman· 5 days agoThe most famous example in recent times was Bank of England independence, a policy Gordon Brown developed in secret over the two years before the 1997...
The Lib Dems could become the opposition
The New Statesman· 3 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...
Rishi Sunak makes his last stand
The New Statesman· 4 days agoThe Prime Minister’s final push was a greatest hits of Tory failures.
After a historic Labour victory, I’m choosing hope
The New Statesman· 2 days agoA little under five years ago, in December 2019, I wrote a column – among my first for this magazine – reflecting on the result of that month’s election,...
