Ph. FLickr/House of Commons, CC BY-NC-ND Thomas Caygill, Nottingham Trent University Keir Starmer is in the middle of his worst crisis yet following further damaging revelations about Peter Mandelson’s friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. Emails released by the US government revealed the depth of Mandelson’s friendship with Epstein and confirmed that it
Ph. helloRuby/Shutterstock Robert Dover, University of Hull The alleged Chinese spying affair currently troubling the UK government after the collapse of a trial is markedly different from previous espionage scandals. That is because it is centred not on the actions of suspected spies, but on the behaviour of the government. How did this
ph. A year in, Starmer still has a mountain to climb. Flickr/Number 10 , CC BY-NC-ND Rohan McWilliam, Anglia Ruskin University In the build-up to the 2024 election, Keir Starmer worked hard to show that his party could run Britain better than the Tories. He promised his government would offer stability after years of chaos –
ph. Under pressure. Flickr/UK Parliament, CC BY-NC-ND Tony McNulty, Queen Mary University of London The government has promised to make major concessions to its universal credit and personal independence payment bill after a large-scale and very public rebellion by Labour MPs threatened to derail a vote due on July 1. The Commons order
Martin Farr, Newcastle University Labour’s former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has declared that Keir Starmer’s government has driven “a knife into the heart of what I believed Labour stood for” and called for party members, unions and MPs to take back control. The text was McDonnell’s, but the pretext was Nigel Farage. Earlier