The writer at the centre of the Diane Abbott row
Tomiwa Owolade joins the New Statesman Podcast team to discuss the MP’s incendiary response to his piece.
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn has been MP for Islington North since 1983, representing the Labour Party until he had the whip removed in 2020, after which he sat as an independent. He was leader of the Labour Party and leader of the opposition from 2015 to 2020. Corbyn was born in 1949 and was a trade union representative prior to becoming an MP; he chaired the Stop the War Coalition from 2011 to 2015.
John McDonnell’s last stand
The former shadow chancellor is now the only leading Corbynite with the Labour whip. Can he save the party’s left…
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Should Labour forgive Diane Abbott or forget her?
Views on how the former shadow home secretary should be treated are divided and do not fall along normal party…
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How to run as an independent: an advice letter to Jeremy Corbyn
You might even get a few Tories voting for you to embarrass the Labour Party, just like the 2015 Labour…
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Keir Starmer shows his strength by banning Jeremy Corbyn’s candidacy
Discontent among the unions will not trouble the Labour leader too much.
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Could Jeremy Corbyn win as an independent?
History suggests the former Labour leader is in for a struggle if he decides to run in Islington North.
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Margaret Hodge: Confronting anti-Semitism in Labour was harder than fighting the BNP
After 50 years as a politician, the Blairite veteran reflects on Jeremy Corbyn, urges Labour to tax wealth, and says…
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Will Labour divisions scupper Starmer’s election hopes?
The leader has issued the left of his party with an ultimatum: back me or quit.
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Andrew Murray’s Diary: Back to my old Commons beat, recalling the bellowing-booth and lessons from the Iraq War
I am reprising my role as the Morning Star’s parliamentary reporter – and hoping there are no problems with my…
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Rishi Sunak, the man who isn’t there
As the Prime Minister dithers, his foes advance and Britain declines.
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The left shouldn’t rush to blame Liz Truss for Britain’s woes
The former PM is a sideshow – the real damage was done by the “sensible” people who championed austerity.
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Will Labour’s stance on crime decide the next election?
Under Keir Starmer, Labour is positioning itself as the party of law and order as voter concern rises.
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Will Boris Johnson’s million-pound donation fund a political comeback?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Starmer shouldn’t aim to be a cult leader like Corbyn
Andrew Fisher is wrong – it doesn’t matter if no one would chant “Oh Keir Starmer” at Glastonbury.
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“The Tories have given up”: Tyne mayor Jamie Driscoll on revitalising the north-east
One of Labour’s “last Corbynistas in power” believes further devolution and left-wing ideas could revolutionise regionalism in the UK.
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Does the wave of strikes mark the end of the long 1990s?
The shadow cast by decades of depoliticised workplaces may finally be fading.
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Labour’s manipulation of selection contests reveals its emptiness of purpose
Keir Starmer’s party is fast becoming a desiccated calculating machine that offers nothing but a small target.
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Rishi Sunak will never be able to paint Keir Starmer as a regenerated Jeremy Corbyn
It is pretty hard to make the case that the Corbynites are in charge when the man himself is no…
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PMQs: Sunak will need more than tired lines about Brexit and Corbyn to land a blow on Labour
The Prime Minister may want to reopen old wounds, but the opposition is very clearly under different management.
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How Liz Truss became the most unpopular prime minister in history
Only 10 per cent of voters hold a favourable view of Truss, while 80 per cent have an unfavourable one.
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