With policy battle lines set, Sunak and Starmer prepare for TV combat | General election 2024
When the history of Keir Starmer’s revival of the Labour Party is written, one of the most significant turning points will be the decision to start playing with people rather than balls when it comes to Boris Johnson and Partygate. Rishi Sunak’s biggest weakness in the leadership debate this election is his background as a […]
Starmer: I’m a socialist and progressive who will always put country first | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer describes himself as a socialist and progressive but said the country does not have the funds to deliver on some of the promises he made during the 2020 Labour leadership election. Starmer, who is facing growing pressure to clarify whether he would raise tuition fees if Labour wins the election, gave a personal […]
Keir Starmer offers ‘change’, ‘change’ and even more ‘change’. But that’s not the same as governing | Simon Jenkins
WThe focus group opinion was reportedly clear. Labour’s Keir Starmer is uninspiring. The economy is not in desperate need of new management. The world is certainly in turmoil. But there is one message he made sure to get across from Starmer’s podium on Wednesday. “Change”. Rishi Sunak has been a decidedly less bad chancellor than […]
Keir Starmer: ‘no quick fix to Tory mess’ if Labour wins election | Labour
Keir Starmer says there will be no “quick fixes” to the serious problems Labor will inherit if it wins the next election, amid fanfare of support from senior officials. announced the party’s six campaign promises. The Labor leader said the country’s “most rational and tolerant people” believed the party would be in Britain before receiving […]
Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters | Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer will on Thursday unveil his version of New Labor’s pledge card for the next general election, making six key promises “clarified” as part of the party’s proposals to sway voters. Campaign materials will be distributed to voters on doorsteps across England and will be unveiled at an event in Essex as the Labor […]
It’s time to end the UK’s divisions: Labour is for everyone | Keir Starmer
RIshi Sunak may have been scared to put his name on the ballot paper this week, but voters sent him a clear message in the local election anyway. People across the country voted for change, from the manufacturing hub of Derby to industrial Redditch and Thurrock in Essex. In Aldershot, home to the British military, […]
Keir Starmer needs to have a frank conversation with voters about the price of security | Andrew Rawnsley
IWe’re not sure who coined this term, but it’s the perfect word to describe the decade or so that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. Wealthy liberal democracies were treated as “holidays from history.” Western powers began to turn Cold War swords into plowshares after their […]
Starmer must drain the poison from the immigration debate – it’s what the public wants | Rafael Behr
“LOkay, if you don’t like mugs, you don’t have to buy mugs,” said an exasperated Ed Miliband. A month before election day in 2015, we were on a train heading to Manchester for the televised leadership debate. The mug in question had the slogan “Immigration Control” written on it. This is one of his five-card […]
Starmer praises ambition behind Boris Johnson’s levelling up agenda and blames Sunak for blocking it – politics live | Politics
important events angela liner, Labor’s deputy leader described the Conservatives’ leveling up policy as being like a burnt out car.the mirrors lizzy buchan I posted this from a recital where Mr. Rayner was speaking. Angela Rayner says the Tory Level Up slogan is now a “burnt-out shell…like a damaged car left in a garage row”. […]
Keir Starmer calls for England to scrap kit with new St George’s Cross design | England
Labor leader Keir Starmer has called for the multicolored St George’s cross to be scrapped on England’s new Euro kit shirts, replacing it with the traditional red and white cross. Nike and England removed the red and white cross on the collar and replaced it with navy, blue and purple stripes. Nike claimed that the […]