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
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
Politics
The New Statesman Interview - Frank Dobson
- 31 January 2000
Not depressed, but angry: that Millbank messed things up "from start to finish". Frank Dobson interviewed by Steve Richards
Politics
Mo Mowlam's fall from grace
- 10 January 2000
How could a minister who brought a party conference to its feet seem close to leaving office barely a year later? Steve Richards tracks the decline of a heroine
Politics
The New Statesman Interview - Stephen Byers
- 10 January 2000
The sensible Blairite at the DTI admits to caution in 1997, but now he talks of redistribution and market intervention. Stephen Byers interviewed
