“Hey Rish, it’s me. Just calling to say soz about Swindon.”
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Not a knockout blow but important gains for the opposition.
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer visits Blackpool ahead of local elections on May 4.
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There’s a lot to play for in the final big electoral test before the next national vote, especially in northern regions where Labour hopes to make a comeback.
Jeremy Corbyn speaks to constituents in 2017.
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Newcomers have in fact proven much more successful at running as independents than big name politicians.
Labour’s attack ad.
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Beyond the ethical questions raised by an ad suggesting the prime minister doesn’t believe in sending sex offenders to prison is the matter of whether such negative campaigning even works.
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He’s a man on five missions but he’ll need to learn from his predecessors to lead Labour back to power after over a decade out of it.
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The senior civil servant who investigated the partygate scandal is leaving to join the opposition. It’s a very surprising move.
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The public still does not know what the opposition party stands for. Inspiration could come from a surprising source.
Keir Starmer with Gordon Brown and Scottish Labour party leader Anas Sarwar, both of whom served on the review panel.
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The plan to abolish the House of Lords has drawn the most attention but Labour is also proposing radical changes to how power is distributed.
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Gordon Brown’s proposals include hefty devolution and House of Lords reform but one change that could have the biggest impact is nowhere to be seen.
Is this the new Jim Callaghan?
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With everyone from rail workers to civil servants going on strike over the winter, it’s hard to see this ending well.
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Labour and Conservatives share a desire to wean the UK off a dependency on migrant labour.
Six former UK prime ministers and a potential new one in Labour’s Keir Starmer.
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The gravity of the current situation is obscuring a less visible crisis – a failure of political imagination
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A state-owned start-up to promote renewables must be only a first step towards energy justice.
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Forming a pact with the Liberal Democrats would make electoral sense in England – but Keir Starmer does not see it as a risk worth taking.
The dire economic outlook means bolder choices will be needed for an opposition party looking to win the next election.
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There’s a mountain climb but there are positive signs for the opposition in the first few weeks of Liz Truss’s government,
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The Labour leader is actually quite good at building a narrative but he needs to be more consistent in his efforts.
Neil Kinnock shows off his bowling skills on the campaign trail in 1987.
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Kinnock lost two elections as Labour leader. Starmer could learn a lot from his successes and failures.
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The question of whether the Labour leader broke the rules in Durham Miners Club will come down to whether the gathering was ‘reasonably necessary’ for work or election campaigning.
Keir Starmer, Anthony Albanese and Jacinda Ardern.
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Anxious not to be easy targets for their pro-business opponents, labour parties everywhere now run on a ‘thin ideological platform’. Anthony Albanese’s ALP is no exception.