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Andrew FisherThe Guardian |
More than 100 Conservative MPs have announced they are standing down at the next election. The phrase “rats leaving a sinking ship” springs to...
As Labour’s shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh dominates the airwaves with talk of nationalising our train services and ending three decades of...
Every few years – maybe once or twice a decade – the working class in Britain decides not to work. There’s an outbreak of “swinging the...
The UK Government is committing “grave and systematic” violations of disabled people’s rights. That was the verdict of the UN’s Special...
“Nothing Labour does will be unfunded or uncosted”, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves asserted ahead of the Labour Party conference last September....
Imagine working at least 35 hours per week and getting paid a maximum of just £2.34 per hour, in the UK, in 2024. If a company was exploiting people...
Today is bad news for bills – that’s no April Fools joke. If you pay council tax or car tax, have a water bill, a mobile phone, a broadband...
Thames Water is an object lesson in the failure of privatisation. The company inherited the infrastructure on the cheap and failed to invest in it,...
Nearly 20 years ago an energetically keen, motormouthed and precociously bright young man, started work in the office of John McDonnell, then a...
The predicament facing Diane Abbott has led to something quite rare in today’s Labour Party: agreement from the left and right. Abbott, the first...
Politics in this country has never been worse. That’s the verdict of the British people. Only 12 per cent of the British public said they trusted...
After Labour capitulated on their £28bn green investment pledge, the next obvious target for those wishing to dilute the party’s already meagre...
An uncommonly tough week for Labour has been cauterised by two big by-election victories, one of which saw the second biggest swing in by-election...
On the day when we find out global warming has exceeded 1.5°C across an entire year, Labour has decided to drop what it branded its “Green...
The fact that Sadiq Khan backed Remain and still favours closer ties with the European Union is hardly news. The London Mayor has been a consistent...
One hundred years ago the first Labour government took office. And polls suggest Labour looks set to mark this centenary by returning to government...
Happy New Year! Inflation is falling and wages are rising. After a global pandemic and the worst cost of living crisis on record, we are emerging into...
We live in an era of post-truth politics. Earlier this week it was announced that the Office for Statistics Regulation is investigating Rishi...
You might think that being on the left of British politics is a fairly miserable affair – as both the Tories and Labour drift to the right. Within...
The British economy shrank in the last month – falling by 0.3 per cent in October. It increasingly feels like the only sector that is booming is...
This week, floundering Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will put forward yet another piece of legislation to save his morally and legally-challenged Rwanda...
Keir Starmer’s praise of Margaret Thatcher in The Sunday Telegraph , in which he credited Thatcher with delivering “meaningful change”, “to...
Last week net migration was revealed to be 672,000 in the last year. Rishi Sunak said the figures were “too high… we need to do more… the levels...
Last Friday evening, I was discussing the Suella Braverman debacle on BBC News. I described her as “a glorified internet troll”, and said her...
When I worked for the Labour Party, I remember discussing the electoral significance of foreign policy with a colleague in my team. “Foreign policy...
Labour may be the first opposition party to be in crisis over a foreign policy issue. The storm began when Keir Starmer was interviewed by LBC on 11...
There was an air of confidence about Labour as their annual party conference concluded earlier this month – heading into government and free from...
The eye-catching moment of Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s speech was popular in the conference hall: announcing she would stop ministers from...
The result in Rutherglen and Hamilton West seemed like a foregone conclusion. The SNP is racked by in-fighting and scandal, their popular leader...
Unemployment is rising: up by 159,000 over the last three months, and up 240,000 on a year ago. Youth unemployment is up 61,000 in the last three...
It is ludicrous that private schools have charitable status. If I donate to a local food bank, a hospice or to relieve famine abroad, I know that...
Birmingham City Council, the largest local authority in Europe, issued a Section 114 notice earlier this month – effectively declaring itself...
In 2001, I was at the founding meeting of the campaign group Stop the War Coalition. I’m immensely proud of marching against war on Afghanistan and...