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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

Starmer's interventionist intentions are now crystal clear

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

English? Yes, but I'm Lancastrian first

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)

First past the post is failing our democracy

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