There was a point yesterday when Labour people reached a state approaching despair. Whether Keir Starmer loyalists or otherwise, they seemed to be ending a week of Labour convulsions weakened, divided
You could sum up Labour’s problems right now with a single word: dishonesty. From start to agonised finish, Keir Starmer has gestured towards something only to turn his back on it at the first hint of
The UK is not a football club. Chopping and changing managers mid-season is the business of Chelsea and Tottenham Hotspur. It’s no recipe for success (I speak as a long-suffering Spurs fan); and it’s
At least 81 Labour MPs have now called for the Prime Minister to leave office. The manner in which they would like him to depart gives some indication of their allegiances – and of whom they would lik
We are entering a week that will define British politics for years to come. After months of anguished prevarication, Labour MPs have finally – and definitively – concluded that Keir Starmer
The lesson of 2008 is incomplete In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, regulators concluded that monitoring individual banks for individual risks had been insufficient. The crisis was not the sum
Last week, my colleague Ailbhe Rea asked one of the most important questions in the current Labour turmoil: what does the Prime Minister think? She noted that while so many people in Labour were busy
The PLP is looking towards the future, after the May elections, and about who might replace Starmer if the results make his position untenable. While the number of Labour MPs who have publicly called
