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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Politics
A high-flier crashes to earth
- 27 March 2000
Stephen Byers, once Blair's golden boy, is now being blamed for the Rover fiasco. Has it all gone wrong for this new Labour star?
Politics
Ken, the great conductor
- 13 March 2000
With his impeccable sense of timing and drama, Livingstone is the supreme politician of our age. But what, asks Steve Richards, is the point of it all?
Politics
How "sensible" ministers foul up
- 28 February 2000
The government's biggest embarrassments are created, not by old Labour sillies, but by those closest to the heart of Blairism
Politics
The New Statesman Interview - Barbara Castle
- 28 February 2000
100 years of Labour - She doesn't believe "this lot" would have started the NHS: it would have been too expensive for them by. Barbara Castle interviewed
Politics
The Prime Minister loses control
- 07 February 2000
Steve Richards finds that, while Hague keeps a firm grip on a sinking ship, Blair has become a victim of his own success
