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Rafael Behr

Rafael Behr is political editor of the New Statesman

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UK Politics
“Labour should help kids become middle class”
17 November 2011

Jim Murphy, Labour’s combative defence spokesman, talks to Rafael Behr about the threat from Iran, w

UK Politics
Cameron can’t please female voters leading a party of grumpy old men
17 November 2011

The Prime Minister's real problem is a party that was already too unpopular to win an election but h

UK Politics
Jim Murphy: security is at the heart of the new centre ground
16 November 2011

The Shadow Defence Secretary has a theory about the changing complexion of British politics

Asia
The Chinese banking accident waiting to happen
16 November 2011

An IMF report suggests Beijing is storing up huge problems in its disordely and opaque financial sys

UK Politics
The Politics Interview - Andy Burnham
14 November 2011

Yes, the Lansley plans are unpopular. But what would Labour do differently? Rafael Behr meets Andy Burnham.

Politics
Britain's most important relationship is now with Germany
11 November 2011

David Cameron should have paid more attention to European diplomacy and been nicer to Angela Merkel

Phone Hacking Scandal
Ed Miliband might have read too much into phone-hacking
10 November 2011

The Labour leader's stance against the Murdochs was a turning point of sorts, but it didn't change t

UK Politics
Nick “Heineken” Clegg’s love of Europe is good diplomacy but suicidal politics
10 November 2011

Clegg's fervent Europeanism sticks out amid the Euroscepticism of his Conservative colleagues, and i

UK Politics
Andy Burnham on the NHS, school freedom and working with Lib Dems
09 November 2011

The new Shadow Health Secretary has spoken exclusively to the New Statesman

Politics
Disorder abroad, opportunism at home -- the euro crisis keeps getting worse
04 November 2011

Balls' hostile position on UK money going towards an IMF bailout is clearly aimed at destabilising t

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