3+ day, 15+ 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, 13+ 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, 21+ 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…...

4+ day, 23+ 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, 1+ 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…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (257+ words) New Statesman “I believe”, intones the speaker at the Christian Fellowship for Reform, “that Jesus Christ is the ultimate Reformer”. The Reform party conference delegates are still arriving. Long queues of them have formed in the mouth of the Birmingham…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (175+ words) Reform conference: scandal rains on Farage’s parade newstatesman.com Brown envelopes, clandestine operations and secret meetings at Claridge’s Hotel. While Reform has already had two cash scandals this year, the latest seemed to surpass the others in colour and gall,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (157+ words) New Statesman In April 2019, hordes of Extinction Rebellion activists brought London to a standstill. At four points across the capital – Marble Arch, Oxford Circus, Waterloo Bridge and Parliament Square – thousands of people, worried about rising global temperatures, gathered to peacefully…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (117+ words) New Statesman The Green Party is split over whether Zack Polanski should be the party’s candidate in the upcoming Holborn and St Pancras by-election. On Tuesday (1 September), Keir Starmer announced he would be standing down from the seat, triggering a…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (131+ words) New Statesman Andy Burnham faced the Commons at his first PMQs as Prime Minister this afternoon (2 September). Here are three things we learned: Over the summer, Burnham and his team were criticised for dodging scrutiny by releasing their plans for…...