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We now have a plan to make England’s local government work – but I fear party politics will trash it

Angela Rayner’s white paper on reform in this vital area is well-intentioned. The problems will be funding and sabotage, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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It’s a struggle to grasp Keir Starmer’s vision for Britain

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Martin Kettle on the kind of Britain Labour says it wants to build

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Starmer’s Labour knows the kind of Britain it wants – it just doesn’t know how to build it

Ministers are right to want to reform the state: it’s crucial to their project. But simply telling civil servants to work harder won’t achieve it, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Sue Gray’s final departure marks the moment that the Starmer project gets serious

The prime minister has finally grasped that Downing Street must control the narrative, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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In search of Britain’s place in a Trumpian world

Letters: Readers respond to Martin Kettle’s article on the new world order created by Donald Trump’s election victory

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The shocking US election result will create a new world order – and launch a fresh wave of Trump wannabes

A whole raft of tired assumptions collapsed today. Britain must be realistic about America now – and our so-called ‘special’ relationship, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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After Reeves’s historic budget, Labour has time to pursue its revolution. What it needs now is public trust

The government is operating in an unforgiving time and lacks capital with voters. It will be crucial to address that, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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The US election interference row tells us this: Starmer’s political compass urgently needs resetting

While it’s likely Labour did nothing illegal in assisting its politicos to volunteer for Harris, it’s yet another issue that was easily avoidable, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Keir Starmer’s selective belief in the rule of law

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Martin Kettle analysing the prime minister’s credo

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Sales of Boris Johnson’s memoir slump by 62% in second week

Former prime minister’s heavily promoted book, Unleashed, just hung on to No 1 bestseller spot in UK

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Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now we know: his credo is the rule of law

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are there, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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The new Tory leader will be Badenoch or Jenrick. Either would be a one-way ticket to another political planet

MPs spurned the chance to renew their party. Their chosen path is further right, a blow for all who want an effective opposition, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Whether it’s Trump or Harris in office, Starmer will need an incredible US ambassador. Here’s my vote

Escapist and trivialising solutions are the Johnson and Truss legacy – but that won’t do now. The stakes are too high, the world too volatile, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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After Labour’s near-death experience, Starmer needs a way to head off claims of sleaze. I have a way

We were promised an honest government of service and the public will demand that, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Labour, the Lib Dems and electoral reform

Letters: Guardian readers respond to Martin Kettle’s piece on how the two parties could work together

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Working together, Labour and the Lib Dems could exile the Tories for a generation

Starmer and Davey need to seize the moment. They have enough common ground to ally against their common enemy, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Both the Tories and the SNP suffered catastrophic defeats – but only one of them is facing up to that

The Conservatives kid themselves that a new leader is all they need, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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A warning from the No 10 garden and an EU olive branch. We are finally seeing Starmerism in action

The PM’s aims are ambitious, social democratic and long-term. But he will need continual public assent, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Workers v bosses: the right is obsessed with zero-sum rows over trade union power. Starmer is right to ignore them

Is economic partnership rather than conflict even possible? Keir Starmer’s government is daring to address the question directly, writes the Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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In cancelling his family summer holiday, Keir Starmer has made his first serious mistake

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

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If these riots came as a surprise, you’ve not been paying attention

Letters: There has not been enough pushback against rightwing racist campaigns over many years to demonise refugees and Muslims, writes Jonathan Callan. Plus letters from Dr Keith Flett, Elspeth Cardy and Caroline Stewart

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Starmer is being tough on the rioters, but history shows that preventing further unrest is the real challenge

Reducing public anxieties about immigration is the best way to combat those fuelling such fears for their own ends, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Labour is still in its ‘phoney’ period. Far tougher tests await in autumn

When the honeymoon ends, Keir Starmer’s team will be judged on pressure points from the economy to North Sea oil drilling, writes Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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It might be hard to take the future of the Conservative party seriously right now – but we must

The UK needs a robust, competent centre-right party to stave off the threat of the populist right, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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With this king’s speech, Starmer has staked everything on the long game. But politics has a habit of moving fast

The NHS, child poverty, defence: Labour is selling itself on its ability to get some big things done, says Guardian associate editor Martin Kettle

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