Boris Johnson has called for a nationwide clap to remember Sir Captain Tom Moore, who on Tuesday passed away from covid-19. Given the Prime Minister has presided over 109,000 deaths and leads a party that cut the NHS to the bone, is he simply exploiting a tragedy for his own partisan end?
There aren’t many lessons from Biden’s victory in the US that translate across the Atlantic. But from an openness to coalition-building to publicly supporting trans rights, the few things Keir Starmer could learn are being ignored, argues Aaron Bastani.
Nine months on from the Labour leadership race, the Starmerite project is failing on its own terms. If the party leadership is unwilling to commit to genuinely transformative policy, then members need to take the reins, argues Callum Cant.
Yesterday Richard Leonard resigned as leader of the Scottish Labour party – less than 24 hours after a potential donor allegedly said they would not give money while he remained in place. This raises huge questions. Firstly whether the Scottish Labour Party is autonomous of the party at Westminster, and secondly whether wealthy donors now […]
Was the Corbyn leadership a complete failure for the left – and what can be learned for next time? What are the chances of a socialist Labour government implementing the kinds of policies seen in the 2017 and 2019 manifestoes? And can the left trust Keir Starmer as party leader after a disappointing first year? […]
At the turn of the decade nearly 12 months ago, some said that we were on the verge of entering a new Roaring ’20s. How prescient they turned out to be. One pandemic and a global economic freefall later, all the assumptions we started out with in January have turned to dust. In their place […]
The UK will start administering a coronavirus vaccine next week. But how did Britain manage to approve the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine quicker than its peers, and should we worry that speed came at the expense of certainty? We speak to Professor Deenan Pillay of Independent SAGE. Plus: Aidan Harper on a 4 day week; UK government […]
Keir Starmer was once a leading figure in Labour’s shift to backing a second referendum. However, now he’s in charge of the party, he looks set to whip MPs to back a Tory Brexit deal. Does this dramatic shift show Starmer has acted dishonestly over the past four years, or is he just adapting Labour […]
With a public sector pay freeze and cuts to foreign aid, has Rishi Sunak’s spending review shown him to be a typical Tory class warrior? With Michael Walker, Ash Sarkar and James Meadway.
Keir Starmer has given himself three months to find a rule Corbyn might have broken that justifies him losing the whip. Meanwhile, Johnson has decided that, when it comes to his allies, rules don’t apply at all. Michael Walker and Dalia Gebrial discuss Priti Patel keeping her job after breaking the ‘ministerial code’ and Corbyn […]
Labour have re-admitted Corbyn, but now Starmer’s suspended the whip. What’s the real story behind the chaos of the last 24 hours? And what happens next? Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the reinstatement of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour party.
Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani discuss the reinstatement of Jeremy Corbyn in the Labour party.
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