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One year of Keir: why Starmer now faces a reckoning Muddled messaging + distant and detached Downing Street operation is a perfect recipe for political chaos. And so Starmer has found Latest long-read for Politics.co.uk 👇 politics.co.uk/week-in-review…

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“When it comes to Europe… the government, quietly and unobtrusively, has so far ticked most, if not all, of the boxes”, writes Naomi Smith is on Bluesky of Best for Britain 🗣️ One year of Labour and Europe — why the government must go further on EU reset politics.co.uk/comment/2025/0…

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“It is a perverse formula that appears almost uniquely constituted to generate chaos: muddled messaging, disseminated by a detached and distant Downing Street, reflects a self-reinforcing recipe for political dysfunction.” politics.co.uk/week-in-review…

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Why Labour ill-discipline flows from its ‘loveless landslide’: “McSweeney’s strategy stuffed parliament with MPs on perilously small majorities. [They are] hyper-aware of constituent complaints: political seismographs attuned to any kind of tremor.” politics.co.uk/week-in-review…

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“Starmer's centralised operation was sustained by the complacent assumption that the sheer size of Labour’s majority would insulate it from internal rebellion. “That belief, along with his flagship welfare bill, lies in tatters on the commons floor.” politics.co.uk/week-in-review…

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🚨 ‘Deluded’: Conservatives condemned after strategist says party has ‘done the apologies’ “We’ve done the mea culpas, we’ve done the apologies, we’ve done all that”, Baroness Maclean said in a speech leaked to the Telegraph Full story ⤵️ politics.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…

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Keir Starmer could learn to fear a left insurgency Labour’s “forgotten flank” could soon become impossible to ignore Latest long-read for Politics.co.uk 👇 politics.co.uk/news-feature/2…

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🚨 NEW: MPs to vote on making Premier League games free-to-air “For too long, the jewel in the crown of British football has been locked behind an expensive barrier”, Liberal Democrats culture spokesperson Max Wilkinson MP said Full story ⤵️ politics.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…

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🚨 NEW: Three out of five people think Keir Starmer does not respect them, poll suggests 33 per cent of the public think Nigel Farage respects them, compared to 24 per cent for both Starmer and Kemi Badenoch Full story ⤵️ politics.co.uk/news/2025/07/0…

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“Polanski and Sultana in particular, are giving political definition, and crucially institutional shape, to progressive disillusion with this Labour government.” politics.co.uk/news-feature/2…

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On historic Anglo-French connections: The speaker, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, references former Bolton Wanderers footballer Youri Djorkaeff Macron goes for Montesquieu and Jean-Jacques Rousseau drawing from the works of John Locke