News about Keir Starmer

“I just don’t know whether he’ll pull it off,” a senior Labour figure says a year to the day that Keir Starmer entered Downing Street. “Keir every day jumps out of bed and thinks what he can do for the country. He goes to bed every night dissatisfied he’s not done enough. But

During Sunak’s premiership, we had a pledges tracker & now @DanielJDunford has tracked some of PM Starmer’s key pledges from cutting NHS waiting lists to improving living standards, building 1.5m homes. I found it super useful and interesting > news.sky.com/story/one-year-of-starmer-nine-charts-that-tell-us-whether-labours-first-year-has-been-a-success-or-failure-13391544

Starmerism is disintegrating. That is because, in an age of political fragmentation & economic schism, Starmer sold the public, & his now MPs, on ‘competence’ being all that was needed. Me for the @NewStatesman www.newstatesman.com/politics/labour/2025/07/starmerism-is-disintegrating

The UK economy is down but not quite out. There are still signs of resilience. But almost every good sign is in spite of the government, not because of it. My @CityAM column: a genuine “hard decision” would be for the PM to admit his policy isn’t working. www.cityam.com/starmers-biggest-barrier-to-growth-is-the-labour-party/