The problem with Labour’s U-turns
Rather than demonstrating flexibility they have too often reflected incoherence
ByBridget Phillipson
Bridget Phillipson’s child poverty victory
The abolition of the two-child benefit cap is the end of a long fight by the Education Secretary
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Back-bench MPs issue a Keirless whisper
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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Who paid for the Labour deputy leadership campaign?
Both candidates declared their big donations in the latest update to the MPs’ register of financial interests
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Trailing Liz Truss on the Maga speaking circuit
Also this week: reflecting on Wilde, and American political lingo
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Could Bridget Phillipson win?
She may be the underdog, but Phillipson’s campaign has bite
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Powell vs Phillipson is an old battle reborn
Soft leftism is colliding with the spirit of early Blairism.
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Bridget Phillipson: “I’ve had to fight tooth and nail”
The deputy leadership candidate on her cabinet battles and why she believes in the socialism of freedom
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I want to be deputy leader so I can do more
Also this week: taking the fight to Reform, and ministerial karaoke at Labour conference
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Phillipson riles Powell camp with “division and disunity” attack
Phillipson isn’t giving up the deputy leadership race without a fight
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No 10 escalates Operation Save Bridget
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster
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“Fear and frustration” in Labour, warns Lucy Powell campaign
Powell’s deputy leadership bid is betting on the underdog factor
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Who is the real Bridget Phillipson?
A look through Phillipson’s old New Statesman articles reveals a politician much more radical than her critics think
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Civil war looms over this brittle Labour government
Peter Mandelson’s sacking has only heightened factional conflict in the party.
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Inside Labour’s deputy leadership election
Some MPs see the race as a proxy war between Keir Starmer and Andy Burnham.
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Bridget Phillipson is the last, best hope of the Labour right
The Education Secretary is growing in confidence and would make a fine deputy leader.
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Who is Labour’s new Queen of the North?
What a contest between Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell would mean for the party.
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Bridget Phillipson pitches herself as continuity Rayner
The Labour Deputy Leader hopeful is emphasising her identity as a working-class northern woman.
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Who will be Labour’s next deputy leader?
An angry party membership could throw up a surprising result.
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Will Labour crown Bridget Phillipson deputy leader?
The Education Secretary’s best hope of victory may be a split vote among rivals.
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