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If Labour wins a 1945-style landslide, it will have no excuse for playing it safe

Sticking to the Tories’ nonsensical fiscal rules, as it says it will, would be a political and economic mistake, says the Guardian’s economic editor Larry Elliott

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Rishi Sunak’s scare tactics aren’t going to work against a soothing Keir Starmer

As he demonstrated at the launch of his pledge cards, the Labour leader has succeeded in de-risking perceptions of his party

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The Labour party’s complicated relationship with God

Letters: Andrew Copson of Humanists UK, Zaki Cooper, David Tutssel and David Cragg-James respond to an editorial about the party and faith communities

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What is needed from a Governor is reticence

Governors need to steer clear of controversies, especially those unconnected with their constitutional duties

The Hindu

A Century of Labour by Jon Cruddas review – what does the party stand for?

The MP and former policy chief sets out the battle of ideas that has shaped Labour from Attlee to Starmer

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Keir Starmer ‘lacks clear sense of purpose’ claims Labour ex-policy chief

Party historian MP Jon Cruddas questions readiness for power of leader with few ties to movement’s roots or ideology

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Lazy and fraudulent: we saw the true Johnson at the Covid inquiry – and why his like must never have power again

He confirmed himself as manifestly unfit. Those who gave Britain such a leader should carry the shame of it to their graves, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Thatcherism is the worst kind of model for Labour

Letters: Readers criticise Keir Starmer for praising the former Tory prime minister and her plan for entrepreneurialism

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OPINION - Sir Keir Starmer triggered the Corbynites over Margaret Thatcher and exposed their stupidity

Photographed wearing a giant poppy (and on a cold weekend in December, long after it is necessary) Sir Keir Starmer writes a piece in a conservative newspaper pitching for Conservative voters and praising Margaret Thatcher. That is the combustible headline elsewhere anyway. The truth — the context — is Thatcher…

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OPINION - Forget Margaret Thatcher, the key to Keir Starmer is his view on Clement Attlee

A politician praising a predecessor provides a heavy hint on how they intend to govern, but Keir Starmer’s new found enthusiasm for Margaret Thatcher is a tactical play. His ultimate role model is a very different leader — not the grocer’s grammar school daughter but the shy and underwhelming Clement…

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Lord Darling of Roulanish obituary

Labour chancellor of the exchequer who in 2008 found himself in the eye of an unparalleled economic storm

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Crafting a new chapter in parliamentary conduct

Given the state of conduct in India’s Parliament, a solution to change things lies in returning for inspiration to the source — the Houses of Westminster

The Hindu

Poverty in Britain is firmly linked to the country’s mountain of private wealth – Labour must address this growing inequality

Labour’s shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has said that a Labour government would not raises taxes on wealth, capital gains or higher incomes. She does not, she says, see “the way to prosperity as being through taxation.”

The Conversation

Theresa May says she regrets using term ‘hostile environment’

Memoir blames Windrush scandal on Home Office staff and previous governments including Clement Attlee’s

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The new towns influenced by old settlements

HAVING dealt with palaces and royal residences in this series on Scotland’s built heritage, I am now turning my attention to something completely…

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OPINION - Why Sir Keir Starmer may end up being the left-wing Thatcher

Britain is overdue a transformational prime minister. Jack Kessler suggests why, unexpectedly, it may be the Labour leader

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Green belts once served a vital purpose, but now they are squeezing the life out of cities

Keir Starmer has drawn flak for his revolutionary housebuilding plans, but history shows it can be achieved while still protecting the environment

Evening Standard

‘Offensive’ oath to the King nearly happened at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation

In 1953, former prime minister Clement Attlee made a strikingly similar proposal

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Who owns and profits from the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall? – timeline

Key dates in the centuries-old question of whether the duchies, and their profits, belong to the royals or the people

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'Which manager would make the best politician? Arsene Wenger': Keir Starmer on five-a-side, Gary Neville – and whether he'd rather be PM or Arsenal win the league

Labour leader Keir Starmer tells FourFourTwo about getting starstruck with Arsenal legends, and why Thierry Henry was like a hovercraft

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Boring can be good. How modest Clement Attlee’s unflashy ideas changed Britain

Attlee was a gifted manager, who showed it possible for modest politicians to be successful if they have decent ideas

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Michael Rose obituary

Other lives: History professor at Manchester University who published on the English Poor Law and the history of Manchester

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All In by Lisa Nandy review – why Labour must give power to the people

The shadow levelling up secretary argues that communities should have more control in her persuasive manifesto for a better Britain

Daily Mirror

Labour defence chief visits NATO HQ as party ramps up links with alliance

John Healey travels to Brussels for negotiations with coalition leaders and ambassadors from member countries

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: Britain’s appointment of its first Asian prime minister is a milestone for all minorities

It was early spring 1946. British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, seeing the untenable status quo, sent a simple message to the British colonial officer in India: “In any case, get Britain out.” The following year, King George VI signed legislation passed by Parliament, finally ending Britain’s violent colonial rule on…

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