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Keir Starmer is not the first prime minister to run into difficulties – but only he can turn this ship around.
James Cleverly was the MPs’ favourite to stand in the final round of the leadership contest, but they somehow managed to knock him out, leaving the two rightwing candidates in the race.
The Conservative MP is far from the only politician to play up her working-class credentials and the changing nature of class in the UK makes it possible.
Kemi Badenoch, Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly and Tom Tugendhat all made 20-minute speeches pitching to party members, but there was little time to wonder what went wrong in July.
The rules around donations have been reviewed before and it’s hard to see this drama changing them.
Personality politics only ever ends one way.
It’s party conference season in Britain, a chance for members to meet and talk through their successes and failures from the election campaign – and start talking strategy for the next. Perhaps inevitably…
The prime minister was under pressure to shift the mood at party conference and he appears to have met the brief.
Listen to the trailer for a new podcast series from The Conversation Documentaries on the relationship between class and politics in Britain.
There are still 88 peers with seats handed down through hereditary lines.
Spending to rebuild would be the politically sound move at this juncture.
If Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves can really convince voters their future vision is truly possible and that the rewards will be significant, they might just be able to sell their difficult budget.
Quid-pro-quo corruption is not a feature of British politics, but nice gifts ease access to the ultra wealthy.
Improving staff morale improves patient care.
Deregulation, cost-cutting and outsourcing were not ‘failures’ of government, but flagship policies that were carefully planned and coordinated.
The BRE requires radical overhaul in order to return to its roots as the custodian of building and fire safety research.
David Lammy is not the first Labour foreign secretary to revisit arms contracts on ethical grounds.
The prime minister doesn’t have to mislead the public by pretending that everything is fine when it isn’t, but they need a reason to buy into his project.
The prime minister is preparing the ground for a difficult budget but blaming his predecessors will only get him so far.
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