And in the minds of the modern Labour Party, that would be unconscionable. Less than a fifth of workers earn their living in the public sector, yet it remains, for the Left in general, the target ...

Sir Keir Starmer was one of those party leaders that I would never have expected to win an election. He should have been as ...

From a ‘loveless landslide’ to excessive gloom and a climbdown forced by his own MPs, the UK prime minister has endured a ...

The New Statesman’s new editor is a critical friend of the prime minister – very critical, as it turns out, writes John Rentoul (a former deputy editor of the magazine) ...

Starmer should take the prospect of a split on the left just as seriously as he does the challenge from the right.

Labour MPs desperately want to Starmer to succeed because the alternative is too terrible to even contemplate. They want to ...

The Labour Party is one of the UK’s major political parties, traditionally advocating centre-left values such as social justice, workers’ rights, and public ownership. Founded in the early 20th ...

Ministers hope PM’s partial U-turn will be enough to win over sufficient Labour rebels to pass the Government’s welfare ...

The singer, songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg thinks there’s a crisis of accountability in politics (23:51). To fix it, he says we need to reform the House of Lords (27:55) and redefine ...

All this is coming from Britain’s center-left Labour Party, which long favored openness toward migrants. That reflected Labour’s modern base of urban progressive voters.