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Steve Howell

Steve Howell is author of Game Changer: Eight Weeks that Transformed British Politics. He was deputy director of strategy and communications for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in 2017

February 2020

  • Gordon Brown, Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn at the Remembrance Sunday service at the Cenotaph

    Today in Focus
    Friends across the divide: does Labour have room for Blairism and Corbynism?

    Peter Mandelson and Steve Howell represent the two opposite poles of the Labour party: one was a key architect of Blairism, the other of Corbynism. But they started out as inseparable friends at the same school in north London. Now their focus is on what comes next for the party. Plus: Matthew Taylor on the growing prevalence of climate anxiety

September 2019

  • Jeremy Corbyn and deputy leader Tom Watson.

    Jeremy Corbyn is wise to emulate Harold Wilson’s pragmatism on Europe

    Steve Howell
    Wilson left it late before backing his own deal in the 1975 referendum. Corbyn should keep Labour’s options open too, says his former communications adviser Steve Howell

May 2019

  • Jeremy Corbyn

    In 2017 Labour promised to deliver a jobs-first Brexit. It must not go back on that now

    Steve Howell
    If Jeremy Corbyn listens to remainers now, our electoral coalition will unravel, says Steve Howell, Labour’s former deputy director of strategy and communications

April 2018

  • Bernie Sanders at Penn State University, 19 April 2016

    For the many: what the Corbyn campaign learned from Bernie Sanders

    A visit to one of the US socialist’s rallies inspired former Labour strategist Steve Howell. In an exclusive extract from his new book, he writes about the power of storytelling and the eureka moment behind the party’s 2017 campaign slogan

March 2018

  • Cambridge Analytica Accused Of Collecting Personal Information From Facebook Users<br>PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 20: In this photo illustration the logo of the strategic communication company "Cambridge Analytica" is seen on the screen of an iPhone in front of a computer screen showing a Facebook logo on March 20, 2018 in Paris, France. Cambridge Analytica is accused of collecting the personal information of 50 million users of the Facebook social network without their consent and would have used it to develop software to predict and influence voter voting during the campaign American election according to the New York Times and the Guardian. Facebook share price fell by more than 5% Monday shortly after the opening of Wall Street. (Photo Illustration by Chesnot/Getty Images)

    Politics Weekly UK
    Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and democracy – Politics Weekly podcast

    Anushka Asthana is joined by Carole Cadwalladr, Alex Hern, Steve Howell and Damian Collins MP to discuss the scandal surrounding Cambridge Analytica’s use of data harvested from Facebook in the campaigns of Donald Trump and Brexit. Plus: Heather Stewart in Brussels on the Brexit transition deal and the continuing response to Russia

January 2016

  • Athletics - Paula Radcliffe

    If we really want to clean up athletics, let’s start treating our athletes better

    Steve Howell
  • Novak Djokovic of Serbia serves

    What would drive a tennis champion to cheat?

    Steve Howell

November 2015

  • Rugby pitch at London's Olympic stadium

    How many rugby players use steroids? It’s more like how many don’t

    Steve Howell
    Whether it’s because players need to bulk up or want to look ripped, the sport needs to get its house in order before next summer’s Olympic Games in Rio
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