PMQs review: Rishi Sunak has lost control
The Prime Minister is no longer the master of his party – as Keir Starmer gleefully reminded him.
BySir 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.
The Prime Minister is no longer the master of his party – as Keir Starmer gleefully reminded him.
ByAfter years of Tory cuts, Labour needs to repair the relationship between government and civil society.
ByAs the Labour leader mercilessly exploited Tory divisions, Rishi Sunak was left politically helpless.
ByGermany’s political crisis is a warning for Keir Starmer.
ByThe Labour leader relished mocking the Prime Minister’s erratic changes of strategy.
ByKeir Starmer should be worried less by a potential Tory surge and more by a creeping pessimism among voters.
ByEven if taxes are increasing less quickly, they are still at a record high.
ByAs an election year dawns, Team Starmer are refusing to believe the hype around them.
ByLabour would inherit a fractious domestic and international environment. Does it have answers?
ByKeir Starmer’s suggestion that the party may “borrow less” conceals the real choice he faces on public spending.
ByThe Labour leader’s approach comes with risks as well as rewards.
ByA second Trump term could reset British politics to Labour’s advantage.
ByA stagnant economy and a fractious geopolitical climate won’t disappear with a change in ministers.
ByThe economist Richard Layard advises politicians to take well-being more seriously.
ByTory MPs are not grateful for the Prime Minister or optimistic about their prospects.
ByWhile the Tories squabble over the Rwanda plan, the Labour leader declares that he will lead a “decade of national…
ByThe party’s self-imposed fiscal straitjacket risks alienating a popular majority.
ByFar from lacking ambition, the party’s challenge will be to align a series of mini-revolutions.
ByTo end the UK’s dependence on low-wage migrants, Labour needs to escape the straitjacket of market liberalism.
ByThe Labour leader has devised a potent line of attack on the government’s flagship asylum plan.
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