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  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Camilla Cavendish
    If Starmer can’t enthuse voters now, he might never beat Johnson

    The prime minister and his party are dogged by scandals and yet Labour still fails to inspire

  • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
    Inside Politics
    UK local elections: Winners, losers and pretenders

    Plus, political commentating in the small hours and Labour’s plan to fight inflation

  • Wednesday, 4 May, 2022
    Robert Shrimsley
    What Labour still needs to learn from Tony Blair, 25 years on

    If Keir Starmer fails to define himself as his predecessor did, the party’s opponents will do it for him

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
    Northern Ireland
    Alliance strives to break duopoly of Northern Ireland’s factional politics

    Centrist force struggles to be heard above the din of unionists and nationalists clashing on entrenched community lines

  • Sunday, 24 April, 2022
    News in-depthUK politics & policy
    ‘He’s lost it’: Anger at Boris Johnson sets tone for local elections

    Conservatives expect partygate to hit support but many voters in bellwether of Dudley unconvinced by Labour leader Starmer

  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    Sebastian Payne
    Labour needs big personalities to take on the Tories

    Despite the government’s travails, voters are still wary of Keir Starmer’s party

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    Sebastian Payne
    Conservatives hope May’s local elections will bolster their ‘red wall’

    The UK bellwether constituency of Sunderland has been a Labour redoubt for decades but this could be about to change

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Labour holds on to Birmingham Erdington seat in by-election

    Paulette Hamilton increases party’s share of the vote to become UK city’s first black MP

  • Thursday, 3 March, 2022
    InterviewLabour Party UK
    Scottish Labour leader Sarwar sets out to make party a serious challenger

    The party’s leader will tell Glasgow conference: ‘We’ve stopped Armageddon, [now] we’ve got to deserve to win’

  • Wednesday, 23 February, 2022
    The Big Read
    Labour’s fight to capitalise on Boris Johnson’s scandals

    The opposition is ahead in the polls. But voters still are not sure what the party stands for under Keir Starmer

  • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
    Labour Party UK
    Labour and Lib Dems in informal ‘non-aggression’ pact before next UK election

    Parties to concentrate resources on seats where each is most likely to beat the Tories

  • Saturday, 12 February, 2022
    Paula Surridge
    A warning from those who ‘lent’ their votes to the Conservatives

    Focus groups of voters who turned away from Labour in ‘red wall’ areas show the Tories can’t count on continued support

  • Saturday, 15 January, 2022
    Steve Richards
    Keir Starmer’s moment has come: he must not squander it

    Being an effective opposition leader requires originality, wit and an ability to break with the past

  • Thursday, 13 January, 2022
    Conservative Party UK
    Tory civil war stokes talk of Scottish party breaking away

    Some Conservatives in Scotland believe it will never regain ground north of the border with Johnson as prime minister

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    Labour Party UK
    Keir Starmer defends Tony Blair as Labour continues shift to centre

    Opposition leader highlights patriotism and ‘contract’ with voters in new year speech

  • Tuesday, 4 January, 2022
    Sebastian Payne
    Labour is finally learning to love Tony Blair again

    In following the New Labour playbook on patriotism and security, Keir Starmer shows he is serious about winning

  • Wednesday, 29 December, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Labour frontbencher pushes pragmatism to oust Boris Johnson

    Peter Kyle says UK opposition must be ‘smart’ in managing inter-party relations to defeat Conservatives

  • Saturday, 18 December, 2021
    Lewis Baston
    Lib Dems and Labour should forget the mutual peevishness to target the Tories

    The message from the North Shropshire by-election is one of mutual dependence despite the recriminations 

  • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
    News in-depthUK politics & policy
    Sleaze and scandal threaten Tories in one of their safest seats

    Voters prepare to ‘rock’ Boris Johnson’s government in North Shropshire by-election on Thursday

  • Saturday, 11 December, 2021
    Tim Bale
    Johnson’s woes are multiplied if he cannot ‘unite the right’

    Lessons from the 2019 general election show the Conservatives are vulnerable as a midterm by-election looms

  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Britain’s left needs more than informal pacts

    Talk of alliance between Labour and the Liberal Democrats is a distraction

  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
    UK local elections
    Tories win Bexley by-election in relief for Johnson

    Labour unable to take full advantage of prime minister’s problems but populist Reform UK performs strongly

  • Thursday, 2 December, 2021
    News in-depthUK by-elections
    Labour and Lib Dems forge informal by-election pact to exploit sleaze scandal

    Boris Johnson faces crucial electoral test as opposition parties join forces to maximise votes in Old Bexley and Sidcup

  • Sunday, 28 November, 2021
    News in-depthUK politics & policy
    Sleaze scandal hits Tories ahead of Bexley by-election

    UK government faces midterm test in Thursday’s vote as residents warn PM ‘should be nervous’

  • Friday, 26 November, 2021
    News in-depthLabour Party UK
    How Labour’s Starmer and Reeves are ‘wooing’ business chiefs

    After Boris Johnson failed to impress the CBI, the UK’s opposition party is trying to emulate the success of ex-leader Tony Blair

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