Labour’s immigration gamble isn’t supposed to appeal to everyone
Starmer has been lambasted by left and right, but his EU-returns deal targets “hero voters” who voted Conservative in 2019.
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 position on Europe is slowly emerging
Keir Starmer’s plan to reduce small-boat crossings is getting obscured by debates about closeness to the EU.
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Keir Starmer’s non-stop Blairisms
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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The Starmer conundrum
Even those who work with the Labour leader ask: deep down, what does he stand for?
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PMQs today: Starmer rattles Sunak as he brands him “inaction man”
The Prime Minister’s attack on Starmer over his links to Jeremy Corbyn seemed desperate.
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We still don’t know what Keir Starmer believes in
Is the Labour leader’s embrace of the Blairites tactical or ideological?
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Starmer has trapped Labour in a broken liberal consensus
Like Rishi Sunak, the Labour leader only offers a narrow, technocratic pragmatism.
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How might Keir Starmer run the country? Look to Labour councils
Labour-led authorities have governed under austerity for more than a decade, with mixed success.
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Lisa Nandy fails to take Starmer’s reshuffle hint
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Starmer’s transition from soft-left to Labour right is complete
The shadow cabinet reshuffle confirms his abandonment of the leadership platform he stood on in 2020.
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Starmer’s new shadow cabinet is a Blairite tribute band
The Labour leader’s team is without precedent in the narrowness of its political scope.
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The new shadow environment secretary faces a “key test for Labour”
Steve Reed must take the plunge on nutrient neutrality.
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Keir Starmer’s reshuffle was politically ruthless
The Labour leader has marginalised the soft left and promoted proud Blairites.
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Labour isn’t winning, the Tories are losing
While voters think Labour would do a better job on the cost-of-living crisis, they don’t actually know what the party’s…
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What Lee Anderson forgets about Brian Clough
The Tory MP keeps betraying his Labour roots.
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Why doesn’t football love Keir Starmer?
Talking about the game only makes the Labour leader and politicians look dumb.
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Keir Starmer is refusing to play Rishi Sunak’s game
On immigration, Downing Street wanted a bonfire. Labour brought a fire extinguisher.
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Labour’s caution could turn to radicalism in office
If Keir Starmer makes it to No 10, he will inherit a nation in crisis.
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You Ask Us: is Starmer haunted by Blair, and how do you raise voter turnout?
Anoosh Chakelian and Freddie Hayward answer listener questions on the New Statesman Podcast.
How posh is Keir Starmer? British voters don’t know
A quarter of the public think the Labour leader was privately educated – and some think he inherited his knighthood.
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