Mission-driven government: what’s the big idea?
How Labour’s five missions could transform public service delivery.
ByKeir Starmer
Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and lawyer. He has been an MP since 2015 and leader of the Labour Party since April 2020. Starmer, born in 1962, studied law at the University of Leeds and Oxford, then became a barrister specialising in human rights. In 2008 he was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions, for a five-year term. Find news, comment, and analysis about him here.
PMQs review: Starmer lays a Truss trap for Sunak
The Prime Minister cannot flush his predecessor away – and Labour is taking advantage.
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Can a Labour government avoid early unpopularity?
Shadow cabinet ministers fear the public backlash against a new administration will be swift.
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Rishi Sunak’s shelf life is over
The Prime Minister has failed on his own terms.
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Inside Labour’s foreign policy factory
How Keir Starmer and David Lammy plan to reshape Britain’s role in an age of global upheaval.
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More money isn’t the key to clean power by 2030
Labour's plans for decarbonising the grid rely on private finance and planning reform, not just public investment.
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Why a National Skilling Wage is the route to net zero
The UK needs to start training its workers again.
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The revenge of Sue Gray
From Stormont to partygate, the former civil servant specialised in problematic situations. Now she’s Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.
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Ed Davey: “The Lib Dems and Labour aren’t fighting each other”
The Lib Dem leader on his affinity with Keir Starmer, the rise of Reform UK and what John Rawls knew.
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The battle for Keir Starmer’s soul
As Labour prepares for power, two groups on the party’s right are vying to control its future.
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How will Starmer run No 10?
The party leader wants an inner cabinet to help change Downing Street – but reform shouldn’t get in the way…
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Labour’s uneasy victory over Gaza
Shadow cabinet ministers are asking why it took an SNP motion for the party to shift its position.
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PMQs review: the Tories can’t escape the Post Office scandal
Rishi Sunak refuses to back Kemi Badenoch in her public spat with the former Post Office head.
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Keir Starmer’s thirst for power
A landmark new biography portrays the Labour leader as a man with an entirely abnormal drive and a narrow-eyed focus…
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Has Labour’s position on Gaza actually changed?
The party’s language towards Israel has toughened but its previous conditions for a ceasefire remain.
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The prime minister for victims
Britain is a nation beset by trauma, and Keir Starmer’s role will be to assuage it.
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Labour’s £28bn U-turn shows why we need Green MPs
Our largest political parties seem unwilling to invest in a secure, green future.
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What Labour’s by-election woes mean for Sunak
Another Labour candidate has been suspended for anti-Semitism – is the opposition stalling?
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How indecision turned toxic for Labour in Rochdale
Dithering over Azhar Ali’s by-election campaign has reignited the anti-Semitism row and damaged Keir Starmer’s public image.
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Labour’s withdrawal of support for Azhar Ali has come too late
Keir Starmer’s reputation for purging anti-Semitism from the party has been diminished.
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