PMQs review: Starmer is finally up for a fight
The parliamentary battle over workers’ rights has commenced.
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.
Labour’s lead on the economy has crumbled
The party is suffering as a result of general national apathy.
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Cabinet splits on Heathrow are a defining test for Starmer
The debate over whether to build a third runway pits Rachel Reeves against Ed Miliband.
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PMQs review: Starmer confronts some awkward realities
Badenoch highlighted the Conservative record on education and called Labour’s legislation “an act of vandalism”.
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What is Labour in power for?
The government is failing, the Tories are out of ideas. Welcome to Britain in 2025.
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Southport and the changing face of terror
Keir Starmer is correct: the Prevent programme failed to comprehend Axel Rudakubana’s obsession with violence.
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How will Labour handle Trump 2.0?
Japan’s Shinzo Abe is viewed as a pragmatic model for Keir Starmer to emulate.
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Rachel Reeves will soon need to pick a side
The Chancellor is caught between the neo-Croslandites and the neo-Blairites.
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PMQs review: Badenoch keeps letting Starmer win
Someone ought to give the Conservative leader advice about momentum.
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What makes the toolmaker’s son tick?
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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How damaging is the Tulip Siddiq affair for Labour?
MPs are privately frustrated that trust has been squandered so quickly.
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Social care in Britain is doomed
No government is willing to make unpalatable choices needed to resolve the crisis.
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No-fear Keir sidesteps naming Musk
Your daily dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Labour’s politics of prevarication
The UK does not need another lengthy inquiry on care. What it does need is a government with the courage…
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PMQs review: Badenoch’s attacks are undermined by her record in government
The Conservative leader never raised the issue of a national inquiry into the rape gangs when she was children’s minister…
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Why Elon Musk is a danger to the Tories
It won’t be Kemi Badenoch that benefits from the fury over the grooming gangs scandal.
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The year ahead: Can Labour escape decline in 2025?
Keir Starmer needs to prove he is more than a crisis manager.
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Forget Mandelson, Starmer holds the key to the special relationship
Until Labour knows what it wants from the US, the diplomats don’t matter.
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Labour’s precarious triumph
In 2024, the party discovered that winning an election isn’t the same as winning the country.
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PMQs review: Kemi Badenoch misses every target
The Conservative leader strays even further out of her depth in an anticlimactic showdown to end the year.
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