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New governments usually come into power offering hope and a break with the past. This one is squandering the opportunity for a fresh start, says David Blanchflower

Past Labour PMs – Blair, Wilson, Attlee – have tended to arrive in power accentuating the positive

The days when Harold Macmillan could disappear to the grouse moors for the summer are gone – but even prime ministers need a break, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Paul Unwin reconstructs the first days of Clement Attlee’s government in 1945 and moves through momentous history without finding a real focus

The coming of a new Labour government is a moment to take stock. Are there things that the new administration can learn from previous Labour governments? Is it true, as David Cameron claimed in 2009, that Labour governments always run out of money?

Making billionaires pay their fair share into state coffers would allow Starmer’s government to effect real change, but soaking the rich is a hard sell for voters

Editorial: A continuous demonstration of intra-party unity and loyalty to the party leader won’t solve Britain’s problems

The party’s landslide victory on only 34% of the vote was a masterpiece of electoral Jenga. But the taller the tower, the weaker the base, writes Robert Ford

When teaching British political history, I usually stress two points. First, the British Conservative Party have been among the most successful office-seeking parties in electoral history. Second, British Labour struggles mightily to obtain power. Both throw into relief the earth-shattering nature of this landslide win for Keir Starmer’s Labour party.

With Labour predicted to win by a historic margin, here are some of the most dramatic victories of previous times

Britain looks likely to see a change of government this week, swinging leftwards back to the centre ground and the Labour party after 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule.