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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Dear Tony, please raise our taxes

  • 31 January 2000

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

Blair gives Hague an ace card

  • 24 January 2000

The special advisers are here to stay

  • 17 January 2000

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

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

It's chaos, but it's real devolution

  • 20 December 1999

The New Statesman Interview - Neil Kinnock

  • 20 December 1999

Though "a thousand years older" than when he became leader, he still distinguishes "real" from "new" Labour. Neil Kinnock interviewed

A huff, a puff and Prescott backs down

  • 13 December 1999

Prescott's U-turn: too little too late?

  • 06 December 1999

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012

Mind your B-sides

Mind your B-sides

Time to rethink

Time to rethink, not reassure

Who minds?

Latter Day Taint?

Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling, the Miliband dilemma and what the party must do next
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