Starmer’s premiership is dying. Nobody knows how to save it. – POLITICO
The result, one of the worst in Labour’s recent history, has turbocharged the acrimonious debate about Starmer’s perilous position and the direction he is taking his party in. Six government ministers, MPs and officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told POLITICO they don’t expect the prime minister to be ousted in the wake of the […]
How to watch Keir Starmer’s massive by-election test like a pro – POLITICO
Here’s everything you need to know about the battle for Gorton and Denton. Why it matters Gorton and Denton is the prime minister’s biggest electoral test since last May, when Nigel Farage’s Reform UK snatched Runcorn and Helsby (also in north west England) off Labour by just six votes. On the same night, Reform also […]
Brussels deadlocked over how to handle Brexit Britain – POLITICO
“We made an agreement in May — that should be the foundation for our conversation,” said a second person, an EU diplomat, also granted anonymity to speak freely about the talks. “So we shouldn’t then in November come back and try to add to it the contributions to cohesion funds that we didn’t agree in […]
Ed Davey knows how to have fun. But can the Lib Dems get serious? – POLITICO
“Health and social care will be a top issue at the next election, and people who think otherwise haven’t read their history books, they haven’t looked at election day, over the last 30, 40, 50 years,” he argues. “If you look across Parliament and outside, the Tories are nowhere, they’ve got no credibility. They don’t […]
How to watch like a pro – POLITICO
1 p.m.: Durham is proper Labour heartland territory. Until 2021, the party had controlled the county for a century. After mopping up every seat here in the general election, this was seen as Labour’s best chance of regaining control of a council. But Farage has been campaigning hard here personally and hopes to make real inroads. […]
Hey, Elon! Here’s how to meddle in British politics – POLITICO
Word of warning That’s plenty to be cracking on with, but even if you fall foul of the existing rules, the maximum penalty the Electoral Commission can impose is a laughable £20,000. That’s walking-around money for a democracy-loving billionaire. Still, irksome transparency campaigners reckon there are a few simple steps the government could take to […]
How To Save Your Business From The Curse Of The Killer Computer
Dr Junade Ali warns IT scandals will become ever more common Nicola Bald Photography Is your business vulnerable to a killer computer? As the public inquiry into the Horizon IT scandal at the UK Post Office reaches a crescendo this week, a new book warns that these technology failures are far more frequent than most […]
Western allies split over how to make Putin pay – POLITICO
It’s a plan that U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration is backing heavily but so far Europe’s most powerful governments in Paris, Berlin and Rome are unconvinced. Washington policymakers are piling pressure on their allies to ditch their hang-ups over what would be an unprecedented step fraught with legal, ethical and political difficulties. “It’s never been […]
Why global leaders need to learn how to manage and limit immigration
No politician can be expected to tell us all of the truth. If they did so, they would lose an election even for town dogcatcher. Nonetheless it doesn’t seem too much to suggest, in this season of hope, that 2024 might go significantly better than 2023 if more of our leaders around the world acknowledged […]