Shadow cabinet warns Sir Keir Starmer not to lose sight of cost of living crisis

Conservative Party sources have insisted “partygate” is not coming up on the doorstep nearly as much as they expected it to as activists campaign for the May…

Sir Keir Starmer demands emergency Budget to tackle cost-of-living ‘chasm’

Sir Keir said: “Labour have put forward sensible, costed, practical measures that would give immediate help to working people up and down the country. The Government should…

Don’t be fooled: Labour’s big problems still haven’t gone away

Scratch the surface of any Labour MP and you will discover a fundamental fear about the future of their own party. The Corbynite Left like to remind…

When will Starmer apologise for campaigning to put Jeremy Corbyn in power?

Back in the early days of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, Labour MPs needed a Plan B after their attempt to depose him had failed. Having resigned en masse…

Keir Starmer lacks one thing: authenticity

Labour’s lead in the polls increased last week after it was announced that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak had been issued with fixed penalty notices in connection…

Keir Starmer’s foreign policy lacks substance

The Conservatives are in trouble. Their current unpopularity might pass, but Keir Starmer could soon become prime minister if Tory fortunes do not improve. For that reason,…

Labour evades the immigration issue

As the full details emerged of the Government’s plans to send asylum seekers to Rwanda the chorus of denunciation grew shriller. Opposition parties and campaigners called the…

Sir Keir Starmer says ‘biology matters’ after confusion over Labour’s trans stance

Meanwhile, Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, on Thursday said it “doesn’t make any sense” for male patients to be asked if they are pregnant before undergoing scans….

What is the point of Keir Starmer?

Whatever his faults, nobody can claim that Sir Keir Starmer had the easiest start as Labour leader. He’s had to deal with the reputational damage of Corbynism,…

Angela Rayner’s attack is punctured … by a text from her Tory double-agent boss

Ms Rayner’s face froze. Not long after that, she got up and left the Chamber – unusual when it’s your own motion being debated – and there…

If Keir Starmer cannot say what a woman is then he’s not fit to be PM

It is the great new divide in British politics. No longer are the parties defined by their attitudes to taxation and spending. Gone are the days when…

Angela Rayner’s Commons’ attack is quickly thwarted … by a text from her Tory double-agent boss

Ms Rayner’s face froze. Not long after that, she got up and left the Chamber – unusual when it’s your own motion being debated – and there…

Labour trying to ‘open floodgates’ for Russian political donations, claims Boris Johnson

Responding on Mr Johnson’s behalf on Friday, Lord True insisted that the legislation “closes loopholes on foreign spending – making it harder for shadowy third parties to…

At last, Keir Starmer is showing what he’s made of

There were many occasions, during the leaderships of Neil Kinnock, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Ed Miliband, when the Socialist Campaign Group of MPs broke publicly from…

Without courage, a heart or a brain, Labour are still stuck in Oz when it comes to our liberty

In a twist on the tale, the Tories seemed to have woken up to reality – that lockdown destroys the economy and health – whereas the opposition…

‘Sneer Starmer’ has let the mask slip

So it turns out that you can take the man out of Camden but you can’t take Camden out of the man. Labour spin doctors who used…

Keir Starmer’s Brexit U-turn takes the public for fools

Sir Keir Starmer was presumably optimistic that his latest pronouncement on Brexit – namely that there now exists “no case” for Britain rejoining the European Union –…

Deselecting Jeremy Corbyn could save the Labour Party

There was much in Rosie Duffield’s interview with The Telegraph last week that should worry her (current) party leadership. One less reported observation was that Labour is…

Labour MP Rosie Duffield: Keir Starmer no better than Jeremy Corbyn and it could make me defect

Speaking to Friday’s Chopper’s Politics podcast – which you can listen to using the audio player above – Ms Duffield laid bare the harassment she has faced…

Fact check: Was Keir Starmer responsible for the CPS failing to prosecute Jimmy Savile?

Mr Johnson’s attempt to backtrack was not enough for his close aide Munira Mirza, who quit No 10 over his refusal to apologise for the “scurrilous” attack…

The truth about the Keir Starmer video: A fifth of the slurs were about Jimmy Savile, but more called him a traitor

Mr Coleshill: “What about the working class? Is this a Labour Party or the party of the elites?” The crowd’s chants continue: “Protecting paedophiles… Traitor! Traitor!…Jimmy Savile.”…

Boris Johnson’s Jimmy Savile attack on Keir Starmer ‘perfectly reasonable’, says Kwasi Kwarteng

Mr Kwarteng was asked whether he would have used the same words as the Prime Minister. He told Trevor Phillips On Sunday on Sky News: “I think…

The Prime Minister did not ‘smear’ Keir Starmer

During Commons exchanges on Monday over lockdown parties in No 10, Boris Johnson said of Sir Keir Starmer: “(This) former Director of Public Prosecutions … spent most of…

Boris Johnson’s smoking car is about to fall to pieces … even Dastardly and Muttley could beat him

“Mooooore!” brayed the Tory backbenchers, particularly restive today. “Well some people won’t be getting more, since they won’t be here to hear it”, snapped Hoyle. The “no…

‘PM is a man without shame… damaging everyone and everything around him’: Sir Keir Starmer speech, in full

Our national story about Covid is one of a people that stood up when it was tested. But that will forever be tainted by the behaviour of…