Articles tagged Keir Starmer:
Starmer Fails the 'Great Expectations' Test
- 24 Jan 2026
Eighteen months really is a long time in politics. Yesterday I was clearing out some papers and came across a copy of the New Statesman from 12 July 2024. It was their post-election issue. I flicked through it and was astonished by the...
Keir Starmer, Welfare and His First Year in Power
- 29 Jun 2025
On Saturday Keir Starmer will celebrate his first anniversary as prime minister. Well, when I say ‘celebrate’, that’s perhaps overdoing it. Perhaps ‘mark it’ is more accurate, because he hasn’t got a huge amount to celebrate, as various of the Sunday papers aren’t slow in poin...
Why Is Keir Starmer So Bad at Politics?
- 19 Jan 2025
This article first appeared in the the ipaper Feeling sorry for politicians is about the worst thing that can happen to them, but – and call me old-fashioned – even I have started to feel sorry for the flailing Keir Starmer. The poor chap has earnt the epithet “beleaguer...
Starmer Will Rue the Day Sue Gray Has Departed
- 6 Oct 2024
They’re only 93 days in and they already run the risk of cementing their reputation as a government that is divided, incompetent and on the take. Quite an achievement, when you come to think about it. Even though I am on the other side of the political fence, I take little ...
Is Starmergeddon Coming for the Tories?
- 23 Jun 2024
There are still ten full days of campaigning to go, yet virtually everyone on the right has given up hope of anything that will dent Labour’s seemingly impregnable likely majority. So naturally the papers are full of articles about what happens to the Tories in the aftermath o...
Why Jeremy Corbyn Could Prevent Keir Starmer From Becoming Prime Minister
- 20 Feb 2023
This article first appeared in the Daily Telegraph. When Keir Starmer announced last week that his predecessor, Jeremy Corbyn, wouldn’t stand as a Labour candidate at the next general election, he didn’t know his declaration would almost immediately be eclipsed by Nicola St...
Telegraph Column: Article 16, Starmer & Solskjaer and Claudia Webbe
- 10 Nov 2021
I can hear it now. Sir John Major will take to the airwaves denouncing it. Alastair Campbell and Andrew Adonis will have a fit of the vapours on Twitter. Emily Thornberry will pronounce with all the solemnity she can muster that it is a dark day when Britain breaks a treaty. ...
When Letting a Speech Speak For Itself Is Not Enough
- 26 Sep 2021
Party conferences are often thought to be a waste of time. All they do is give the media an excuse to fuel divisions within parties, whether real or imagined. In his new book MUST LABOUR ALWAYS LOSE, former Labour MP suggests they should be abolished. Given how the first two d...
Reaction Media Review Column 53: Piers Morgan, Matt Forde & Keir Starmer
- 8 Jun 2021
Piers Morgan’s Life Stories, ITV The Political Party Podcast with Matt Forde “You should get Keir to do more of these non political and more personal interviews,” I said to his press officer after he spent ten minutes talking to me and Jacqui Smith about his memories of ...
Ten Things To Take Away From the May Elections
- 9 May 2021
You can tell an awful lot about a politician by how they react to an election defeat. This week we learned that Sir Keir Starmer is neither a lucky general or is cool under fire. His interview on Friday afternoon was a textbook classic of how not to react. He looked like a rab...