David Blunkett: “Starmer mustn’t chop Labour’s tall poppies”
The former home secretary believes the only solution to leadership speculation is success
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.
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Britain needs a leader willing to break with the legacy of Thatcherism
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The year of the rebel
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According to Kemi Badenoch, all Labour MPs want for Christmas is a new leader
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Party strategists insist they are making progress even as the Greens surge
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Three things we learned from the liaison committee
Keir Starmer faced a grilling the cross-party group of MPs
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Does Andy Burnham have a route back?
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Keir Starmer must control the conversation
How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?
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Nigel Farage’s American dream
As prime minister, the Reform leader would take Trump’s America as a blueprint for Britain
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Starmer still lacks a true mission
The Prime Minister’s ever-shifting priorities leave all sides disappointed
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Labour’s Green attacks are misfiring
Keir Starmer’s dismissal of the insurgent party as “nuts” won’t work
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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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The Budget has pushed Starmer and Reeves closer to the edge
The real threat is not a leadership challenge but parliamentary anarchy
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What we read when politics has no narrative
There is still much to discover from the great show of life
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Should Labour fear a Reform-Tory pact?
Deal or no deal, the risk for Starmer is that a united right beats a divided left
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Keir Starmer’s European opportunity
Why government insiders are urging the Prime Minister to embrace a customs union with the EU
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Has Labour’s soft left won?
Keir Starmer’s repeated U-turns mean all sides crave more ideological definition
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Labour’s conformism is crushing Britain
Rachel Reeves is just the latest ambassador of a failed political elite
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