Keir Starmer left the country in a better place
There will be much more to remember than that the administration lasted only two years
ByKeir Starmer
Keir Rodney Starmer is a Labour Party politician who became Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. He has been MP for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015 and leader of Labour 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.
Stop calling Keir Starmer a good man
It is not decent to lie, or to indulge warmongers
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Andy Burnham: this will be a “circuit breaker” for Britain
Burnham said his premiership will bring about “the biggest changes in the last 40 years”
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Andy Burnham knows our nostalgia
Would my grandparents have been able to build such lives today?
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Labour’s iron discipline
Also: interviewing Binface, and why I prefer Shostakovich to the World Cup
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PMQs review: A farewell to Starms
The woeful attempts at footy banter were relentless
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After Keir Starmer
Can we move past our decade of failure?
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Brexit takes the stage
Also: the UN’s bid for climate control, and honouring my revolutionary ancestors
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Burnham’s choice of chancellor is the most crucial he will make
Whoever takes the job must deliver Burnham’s vision, not their own
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Andy Burnham reminds me of Donald Trump
I hope he becomes more so
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Keir Starmer’s closest Cabinet ally backs Andy Burnham
Speaking at the New Statesman Politics Live conference, Lord Hermer supported Burnham’s succession, and defended the Starmer legacy
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The late style of Anas Sarwar
The First Minister remains effervescent, but his days are surely numbered
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PMQs Review: Kemi Badenoch loses her head
Starmer, Reeves, Miliband and Phillipson were each subjected to a beating
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The northern conquest
Andy Burnham’s march on No 10 was swift, ruthless and meticulously planned. Now comes the hard part
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Andy Burnham does a Lenin
The epic register does not come naturally to British politics
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To the barricades Mr Burnham!
Democratic Republicanism must form the spirit of the new Labour government
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The age of the unelected prime minister
The public didn’t vote for Andy Burnham, and they hate this way of doing politics
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The left shouldn’t trust Andy Burnham
Haunted by Brexit, Burnham engages with immigration on Farage’s terms
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Keir Starmer peaked at “unknown”
Charting the Prime Minister’s downfall
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The timeline: How Starmer lost control
It all went so wrong so quickly
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