The Searchers by Andy Beckett review – the leftists who took their lead from Tony Benn
An absorbing study of the radical left makes a convincing case for their cultural victories but romanticises the Jeremy Corbyn years
April 2024
Jeremy Corbyn’s call for ‘peace’ plays into the hands of anti-western dictators
The long read
‘I’ll stay an MP for as long as I can’: Diane Abbott’s tumultuous political journey
Losing the whip: who are the 18 UK MPs sitting as independents?
Susan Sarandon, Olivia Colman and Paul Mescal join star donors of Cinema for Gaza auction
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Labour on course to win more than 400 seats and majority of 154, suggests poll – as it happened
Labour no longer a ‘party of protest’ says shadow minister after drop in members
Four in five Labour members back Keir Starmer, polling shows
March 2024
Sadiq Khan promises 40,000 new London council homes if he wins third term
Mayor says May election will be ‘closest ever’ and says the contest is ‘once in a generation’ chance to tackle city’s housing crisis
Momentum considers accepting members from outside the Labour party
Plan is intended to catch those who left the party under Keir Starmer and to create a broader leftwing movement before the election
Galloway win makes Workers party a focus for far-left challenges to Labour
Party now on course to field as many as 90 candidates in general election and looking to team up with independents
February 2024
Starmer set up own Labour leadership team six months before Corbyn’s 2019 defeat
A new biography has revealed how the Labour leader and his allies planned his challenge in advance of the election
Pastor says Welby would not meet him if he spoke at Palestine rally with Corbyn
Archbishop said he could not meet Bethlehem Lutheran Munther Isaac if he shared platform with former Labour leader, Isaac says
Azhar Ali row: how Keir Starmer has handled other members’ behaviour
Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and Sam Tarry are among those who have tested the Labour leader
January 2024
Demoralised and shattered: yes, the left in the UK is down. But here’s why it isn’t out
Owen Jones
Starmer is intent on eliminating the ‘Corbynite rump’, but their ideas are far more plausible in our age of staggering inequality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
December 2023
Keir Starmer praises Margaret Thatcher for bringing ‘meaningful change’ to UK
Labour leader says former PM ‘set loose our natural entrepreneurialism’ in appeal to Tory voters to back him
November 2023
Jeremy Corbyn calls Hamas ‘terrorist group’ after previous demurral
‘His days as a Labour MP are over’: Starmer condemns Corbyn’s Hamas stance
Momentum founder says leftwingers ‘in denial’ about pro-Palestinian slogans
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
No 10 says 40% of trains must always run under new laws to limit impact of strikes to be brought in by Christmas – as it happened
