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Article thumbnail: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and former prime Minister Rishi Sunak (left) talk as they walk towards the House of Lords during House of Lords Chamber during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London. Picture date: Wednesday July 17, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Speech. Photo credit should read: Alberto Pezzali/PA Wire
Kitty Donaldson

Starmer's interventionist intentions are now crystal clear

We are seeing a core belief that the Government can and should be directing events

Victoria Derbyshire

English? Yes, but I'm Lancastrian first

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

It's voters not politicians who are stopping the march of the far right

Article thumbnail: 'Starmer is a unifier elected to power in a country that, for the last five years at least, has been governed by dividers' (Photo by Liam McBurne/AFP) (Photo by LIAM MCBURNEY/AFP via Getty Images)
John Curtice

First past the post is failing our democracy

Emily Sheffield

The Tories are my family: this is what I learned as David Cameron's sister-in-law

Article thumbnail: Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, during a general election campaign event at Hitchin Town Football Club in Hitchin, UK, on Monday, July 1, 2024. Starmer??said a Labour-led UK wouldn't be isolated on the global stage despite the rise of right-wing parties in Europe and North America, as the man polls project will be Britain's next prime minister warned that only progressive parties "have the answers" to the challenges facing the world.??Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Article thumbnail: Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, during a general election campaign event at Hitchin Town Football Club in Hitchin, UK, on Monday, July 1, 2024. Starmer??said a Labour-led UK wouldn't be isolated on the global stage despite the rise of right-wing parties in Europe and North America, as the man polls project will be Britain's next prime minister warned that only progressive parties "have the answers" to the challenges facing the world.??Photographer: Jose Sarmento Matos/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Article thumbnail: RICHMOND, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 29: Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (2nd, L) speaks to Mark Hill (L), a local community champion for veterans, with other former members of the armed forces at a cafe on Armed Forces Day in his Richmond and Northallerton constituency on June 29, 2024 in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. (Photo by Scott Heppell-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: RICHMOND, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 29: Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (2nd, L) speaks to Mark Hill (L), a local community champion for veterans, with other former members of the armed forces at a cafe on Armed Forces Day in his Richmond and Northallerton constituency on June 29, 2024 in Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. (Photo by Scott Heppell-WPA Pool/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Voting arrive at the church of St. Saviour's in the south London borough of Lambeth, serving as a polling station for the UK's General Election 2 weeks before Christmas, on 12th December 2019, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: Voting arrive at the church of St. Saviour's in the south London borough of Lambeth, serving as a polling station for the UK's General Election 2 weeks before Christmas, on 12th December 2019, in London, England. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JUNE 17: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer And Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves launch Labour's green investment plans at the Port of Southampton on June 17, 2024 in Southampton, United Kingdom. This week Labour will outline its pledge to create 650,000 new jobs via its Geen Investment Plan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)
Article thumbnail: SOUTHAMPTON, ENGLAND - JUNE 17: Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer And Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves launch Labour's green investment plans at the Port of Southampton on June 17, 2024 in Southampton, United Kingdom. This week Labour will outline its pledge to create 650,000 new jobs via its Geen Investment Plan. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)