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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UK Politics
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
Politics
Playing it even safer
- 25 September 2006
Moving Britain Forward: selected speeches 1997-2006 Gordon Brown Bloomsbury, 288pp, £9.99 ISBN 0747588384
Politics
Weapon of mass distribution
- 08 November 2004
Lottery funds are being raided for the benefit of the Treasury's coffers, writes Gerald Kaufman
Books
Founding father
- 12 November 2001
Kinnock: the biography Martin Westlake Little, Brown, 768pp, £25 ISBN 0316848719
Politics
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
Politics
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
Politics
Tony Blair, the closet republican
- 07 August 2000
Long live the republic - Most new Labour ministers regard the royals as past their sell-by date
Politics
Still panicking after all these years
- 31 July 2000
Stakeholding, VAT on school fees, transport, the euro: almost anything induces panic in new Labour's inner core. By Steve Richards
