1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (196+ words) Andy Burnham’s growing pains New Statesman When Andy Burnham stood on the steps of Downing Street on his first day as Prime Minister, he pledged to build “a new economic model” for the UK. But if John Healey’s first speech…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (74+ words) Holborn and St Pancras is Labour’s to lose New Statesman The party’s candidate Sagal Abdi-Wali is viewed as being close to Starmer This by-election was triggered after Keir Starmer resigned the seat on 1 September, parliament’s first day back after the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (215+ words) New Statesman Nigel “has only got one ball”. John Sweeney is already singing by page three of this crude and disorganised biography, and he hopes we’re singing along with him, or at least whistling. He knows we know the song,…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (188+ words) newstatesman.com Mayors have a track record of leadership at times of national crisis. Richard Cobden in 1840s Manchester, Joseph Chamberlain in late 19th-century Birmingham and Fiorello La Guardia, who ran New York from 1934 to 1945, focused on local problems but developed…...

5+ day, 45+ min ago   (138+ words) New Statesman Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions (9 September) was only Andy Burnham’s second in the job, and was the final session before MPs head off on conference recess next Tuesday (15 September). Here’s what we learned. Kemi Badenoch continued on a theme…...

5+ day, 32+ min ago   (76+ words) New Statesman Fortunately, Kemi Badenoch was happy to provide the divisive back-and-forth “The Prime Minister still seems fairly well liked”, said the SNP’s leader in Westminster, Dave Doogan, during a question on the cost of living “and I’ll let you…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (244+ words) New Statesman Those planning the 2026 Reform conference said their aim was to “put on a show”. It worked. Before the diplomatic accord with the French hard right, a tax-cut pledge costing £20bn a year and viral videos of female hecklers getting beaten…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (164+ words) New Statesman It was at one of Westminster’s summer parties, in a room high up, overlooking the Thames, with warm white wine swirling, that Ed Miliband made his first extended public remarks as the UK’s new Foreign Secretary. It was…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (201+ words) New Statesman Like a dispute with a neighbour, the triple lock on the state pension was a perfectly reasonable situation to get into, but after 15 years it’s become a bitter, expensive nightmare. It was so easy, 15 years ago, to tell…...

1+ week, 59+ min ago   (108+ words) New Statesman Zack Polanski is being challenged for selection as the Green Party candidate in Holborn and St Pancras. Hamza Chowdhury, a councillor for Holborn and Covent Garden, announced this morning that he will put himself forward for selection as…...