Steve Richards

Steve Richards

Steve Richards is chief political commentator for the Independent and a contributing editor of the New Statesman. He writes a monthly column on British politics for the magazine. He is also a popular broadcaster and a presenter of Radio 4's The Week in Westminster. His new book Whatever It Takes: The Inside Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour will be published this autumn.

Articles by Steve Richards

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Dancing with Gordon

  • 15 January 2009
  • 1 comment

The Prime Minister has cleverly rearranged the political choreography, but he is too desperate for quick hits. He must watch his step

No time for mourning

  • 27 November 2008
  • 3 comments

New Labour has not died. The coalition that won three general elections was always based on pragmatism and the clear-eyed desire to win, which remains as strong as ever

The Brown bounce

  • 30 October 2008
  • 3 comments

At the end of the summer Gordon Brown faced a host of severe challenges. But contrary to most predictions he's still standing, while his internal critics are nowhere to be seen

The perils of regicide

  • 02 October 2008
  • 7 comments

Five prime ministers in modern times have faced leadership challenges. But Gordon Brown's enemies should take note: regicide is no way to win an election

Labour's last Scottish leader?

  • 31 July 2008
  • 21 comments

Anger aimed at the Prime Minister has an added dimension explained by English unease at a Scot ruling over them

Playing it even safer

  • 25 September 2006

Moving Britain Forward: selected speeches 1997-2006 Gordon Brown Bloomsbury, 288pp, £9.99 ISBN 0747588384

Weapon of mass distribution

  • 08 November 2004

Lottery funds are being raided for the benefit of the Treasury's coffers, writes Gerald Kaufman

Founding father

  • 12 November 2001

Kinnock: the biography Martin Westlake Little, Brown, 768pp, £25 ISBN 0316848719

She's out, but she wasn't betrayed

  • 11 September 2000

Mo's exit: her fault or theirs? - Steve Richards argues that, far from envying Mowlam's popularity, Blair wants more ministers like her

The New Statesman Interview - Bill Morris

  • 11 September 2000

Normally genial, he is now in a fury - against fellow union leaders who want to rush ministers into the euro. Bill Morris interviewed

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Doing deals in Downing Street

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What if .... the Beatles had never formed

Will Self

Eats at Subway

Attack of the one-foot sandwich

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We want a trial

Iraq, Palin and building bridges

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Our selection

Books of the Year: Part I

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