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Jeremy Corbyn

July 2024

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds his first news conference following his first cabinet meeting.

Voters didn’t flock to Starmer and he knows it

Labour can claim a big mandate after its landslide victory, but the UK’s new government must also quickly prove itself, after winning just 34 per cent of the vote.

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  • Jim Pickard
Labor Party leader Sir Keir Starmer takes charge at a 5am speech on Friday morning.

Starmer can help Britain redeem itself

With a towering majority, a well-disciplined team and a ruthless instinct for power, Keir Starmer can restore some of the respect the Tories destroyed.

  • Adrian Wooldridge
Keir Starmer UK Labour leader

Labour’s sweeping victory in Britain is terrible news for Peter Dutton

The UK general election was fought over problems that are familiar to many Australian voters, which is why the outcome looks bad for the Coalition.

  • Aaron Patrick
Keir Starmer UK Labour leader

How will Keir Starmer change the UK?

As a Labour government gets set to take the reins after 14 years of Conservative rule, what will Starmer do with power in his first 100 days and beyond?

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  • Hans van Leeuwen
The Conservative government has sowed the seeds of its own downfall.

Why angry Britain will this week finally dump the Tories

Five PMs, five elections and a three-ring circus: over 14 years, the Conservative government sowed the seeds of its own downfall – and leaves a mixed legacy.

  • Hans van Leeuwen
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Joe Biden

Feckless liberals are to blame for Biden’s downfall

The left worldwide ignores problems on its own side, and recent history has turned on that failure.

  • Janan Ganesh

June 2024

Rishi Sunak on the hustings in south-west England this week. Some polls suggest he could lose his seat.

Even Rishi Sunak could lose his seat, according to some polls

Seat-by-seat analysis by Savanta and Electoral Calculus found the Tories are on track to win just 53 seats in next month’s vote, an all-time low for the party.

  • Alex Morales

January 2024

When Rishi Sunak cut high-speed rail, commentators drew the wrong lesson.

The welcome demise of big-government Toryism

When Rishi Sunak cut high-speed rail, commentators wrongly saw it as a betrayal of the red wall vision. But the nonsensical red-wall agenda was never needed.

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  • Janan Ganesh

January 2022

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Boris Johnson’s fall would not change the Conservative agenda

The British PM’s lockdown breaches and failings may leave him terminally discredited but few in his party are questioning the manifesto on which he won.

  • Robert Shrimsley

October 2021

Boris Johnson has created a massive problem for Britain’s Labour opposition.

Why Boris flies where Starmer flops

Britain’s Falstaffian Prime Minister reaps gains from Labour’s progressive self-righteousness.

  • Martin Ivens

July 2021

Out of the woods? Labour leader Keir Starmer and his Batley & Spen byelection candidate Kim Leadbeater.

Labour leader Starmer lives to fight another day after byelection win

Keir Starmer was facing a potential leadership challenge if a second Labour stronghold had fallen to Boris Johnson’s Tories.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

May 2021

Re-elected British Prime Minister Tony Blair is greeted by Gordon Brown at the Labour Party’s headquarters in Millbank, central London June 8, 2001. The Labour party secured a historic second term in office.

Progressive left faces extinction: Blair

Politics parties of the left must modernise their economic message or face marginalisation, even extinction, writes former British prime minister Tony Blair.

  • Tony Blair
Boris Johnson scores a political goal in Hartlepool.

Boris Johnson gets boost from byelection win in Labour heartland

The result shows Labour leader Keir Starmer struggling to overcome the schisms opened up by Brexit, which have driven battlers towards the Tories.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

October 2020

Jeremy Corbyn leaves home after learning of his suspension from the Labour Party.

British Labour leader Starmer boots out Jeremy Corbyn

The hard-left former leader downplayed a damning report into anti-Semitism on his watch, falling foul of Keir Starmer's 'zero tolerance' policy.

  • Hans van Leeuwen

May 2020

For all his faults, Johnson exudes optimism and his affliction by coronavirus has won him sympathy.

Johnson should admit government's COVID-19 failures

To earn the trust of all voters, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson must stop the verbal obfuscation and statistical trickery.

  • Martin Fletcher
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April 2020

Keir Starmer, new leader of Britain's Labour Party, has promised a more constructive approach.

Landslide victory for Britain's new Labour leader Keir Starmer

The new opposition leader has offered to work with Boris Johnson to steer the country through the national emergency.

  • Harry Yorke

February 2020

Bernie Sanders with Joe Biden, who had the most to lose from a poor performance in South Carolina.

Democrats turn cannons on front-runner Sanders

We'll be living with the 'catastrophe' of a Bernie Sanders nomination for 30 years, said Michael Bloomberg.

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  • Jacob Greber
Bernie Sanders.

Investors wake in fright to Sanders presidency

Donald Trump wants Democrats to pick Bernie Sanders so he can pillory him as a dangerous radical. But what if America is ready to elect a democratic socialist?

  • Jacob Greber
The imponderable here is whether the elders are right about Bernie Sanders.

Democrats bearish on Sanders really should know better

The past four years in politics have taught us to expect the unexpected.

  • Janan Ganesh

January 2020

The speakers of both houses of London's parliament offered condolences.

Bushfires burn across British consciousness

Politicians and ordinary punters alike have been mesmerised by a crisis unfolding 17,000 km away.

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  • Hans van Leeuwen

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