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While the former PM still has some admirers in Labour, others wings of the party are not listening.
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The former PM’s essay rightly calls for a coherent economic plan, but then sets too much store by AI – and a worldview stuck in the pastTony Blair is right. Labour has made some big and avoidable mistakes since it came to power nearly two years ago. Keir Starmer had a strategy for winning the election but lacked a coherent plan for what his government would do next. Fair cop.Blair is also correct when he says that unless Britain tackles some long-term structural issues, it is in danger of being
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After the initial euphoria of victory, Zoë Garbett prepares to begin running one of England’s most diverse and deprived boroughsFor the first time in decades the person sitting behind the desk in the wood-panelled office of Hackney’s imposing art deco town hall is not a Labour politician.Zoë Garbett was elected as the east London borough’s first Green party mayor in this month’s local elections, surfing a wave of support which resulted in the party winning more than 500 seats, taking control of
BBC Politics
In an interview with BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Sir Tony Blair said he believes 'a serious country' can't keep changing its leaders.
BBC Politics
Who is standing for Parliament in the Greater Manchester constituency of Makerfield?
BBC Politics
A household using a typical amount of energy will pay £221 a year more, under the regulator's new price cap.
The Guardian Politics
The old settlement will not politely bow out for its replacement – which is why progressives must take action on these three frontsVery often, I find, science fiction names what politics struggles to. In James SA Corey’s series of novels the Expanse, the violent dystopian streets of Baltimore are given a name for what happens when the old order breaks down faster than people can describe it: the Churn. It is the brutal reorganisation of power, when familiar rules collapse and those who survive a
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Tearing up planning and using protest laws to criminalise local people – this isn’t how to build the broad consent neededWe will not persuade. We will not explain. We will not listen. We know best and we will force you to comply. This, I’m sorry to say, is how the government’s climate policy works. Or rather, how it doesn’t. Because nothing could be better calculated to alienate the people you need to reach than climate authoritarianism.Three astonishing things are happening simultaneously. One
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A committee of MPs says leaseholders have been waiting too long for governments to tackle the issue.
BBC Politics
Campaigners welcome the move but say passengers are mostly worried about train fares and delays.
The Guardian Politics
Intervention by former PM almost feels designed to inflict maximum annoyance on his partyTony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to TrumpDid Tony Blair ever mention he was quite good at winning elections? If you happened to miss it, then his 5,700-word opus on where Labour, Keir Starmer and the UK more generally have gone wrong is here to remind you. Several times.“I led the Labour party for 13 years and through three general elections,” goes the second sentence. Fu
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Reform's home affairs chief has publicly disagreed with its Treasury spokesman over what party policy is.
The Guardian Politics
The chancellor can point to growth and lower inflation, but weak job data, flat living standards and uncertain productivity are no reason to cheerIn October 1991, the then chancellor Norman Lamont said he thought he saw some “green shoots” of recovery. He was ridiculed, as Britain was in the midst of a deep recession that it would not clamber out of until the following summer. Insouciant in the face of the scorn heaped upon him, Mr Lamont defended himself robustly, even long after the event – no
BBC Politics
Opposition MSPs have criticised the first minister and ex-SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon following Peter Murrell's guilty plea.
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The demand was the Scottish government's first item of business in the new parliament.
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A total of 989 people arrived in the UK in 14 boats between Friday and Monday.
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Some parents believe whether the government will take strong enough action remains to be seen.
BBC Politics
Rhun ap Iorwerth said schools would be empowered to make their own decisions, with a ban expected for England.
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Use our interactive tracker to explore the latest migration statistics for the UK
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The sentences of boys spared custody over the rape of two girls in Hampshire will be referred to the Court of Appeal, the prime minister has said.