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Keir Starmer: four lessons from history for an opposition trying to be the 'government-in-waiting'

Labour’s Keir Starmer has one inestimable quality in leading a government-in-waiting a year out from a general election: a consistent 20-point lead in opinion polls.

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‘We needed a massive amount of resilience’: the female Labour MPs from the class of ’87

At the general election that year, the number of women in the Commons jumped to (an albeit still tiny) 41. Some talk about the sexism – and the solidarity

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The starry-eyed search for a Brexit silver lining

Letters: Neil Kinnock and Simon Price respond to an article by Larry Elliott which argued that a benefit of Brexit is that UK firms will have to invest in machinery to boost productivity

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Hugh Hudson: smash-hit pop classic Chariots of Fire director was a hero of British film

Hudson brought an ad-man’s eye to the brilliant 1981 drama about athletics and bigotry, as well as directing the hilarious Cinzano commercials

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'No one wants to see kids miss more school but striking teachers NEED to be heard'

The Voice of the Mirror says the Tories have exploited and undervalued teachers after years of plummeting wages, and strikes must lead to meaningful negotiations

Daily Mirror

Public warned to ‘take no risks’ as NHS strikes hit

Neil Kinnock understood that Labour was about to lose – and lose big. But two days before the 1983 general election, the then shadow education secretary (with sights on higher office) delivered, politics aside, one of the finest pieces of oratory by any British politician since the war. Speaking from…

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Ed Balls warns Sir Keir Starmer not to make Neil Kinnock’s 1992 mistakes of early big election promises

Former Cabinet minister says that the next general election is ‘Labour’s to lose’

Evening Standard

The Tories’ bungled Brexit has cost us billions. It’s time to make that clear

Letters: Neil Kinnock says pointing out the harm done by Brexit is public service information, not ‘remoaning’. Plus letters from John Bailey, Pauline Caldwell and Nicolas Baby

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Starmer quotes famous Kinnock put-down in attack on Tories’ ‘grotesque chaos’

The Labour has accused Prime Minister Liz Truss of clinging to power.

The Independent UK

Keir Starmer, if you really believe in a Labour government, tell us why we should believe in it too

With Truss fuelling poverty and inequality, Starmer needs to show he’s ready for a titanic battle, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Handbagged review – sparks fly at the Queen’s audiences with the Iron Lady

Moira Buffini’s clever political comedy returns, educating a new generation on Margaret Thatcher’s legacy through her weekly encounters with the monarch

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Labour should be winning – but this Tory leadership circus is drowning Starmer out

Compared with the novelty of a new Conservative premier, the no-frills Labour leader is failing to show he is a fresher option, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Keir Starmer: what Labour leader could learn from Neil Kinnock to capitalise on Boris Johnson's woes

Although prime minister Boris Johnson is suffering a potentially career-ending crisis after only narrowly surviving a confidence vote in his leadership, his struggles don’t necessarily appear to be translating into a surge for the Labour opposition.

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Wales Online

'She is ceasing to be the person she was' Neil Kinnock's poignant honesty on his wife's Alzheimer's diagnosis

Glenys Kinnock, a former MEP, was diagnosed in 2016

Wales Online

Man 'selling eggs' for £10 each outside Margaret Thatcher statue

Neil Kinnock has called for the statue to be 'respected'

The Guardian - UK

Labour faces an open goal in this week’s local elections. It mustn’t miss

At the moment, you might ask how Keir Starmer’s party could possibly fail. Yet things may not be quite so simple, says the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott

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Keir Starmer the grownup needs to rediscover the radical youth he once was

The Labour leader hopes his sober, moderate image will take him to No 10. But a nation in need of change demands more of him, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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‘A PhD in my brother’: Valerie Biden Owens on the Joe she knows

In her newly published memoir, Growing Up Biden, the president’s sister pays tribute in a moving portrait of sibling love

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Brittle With Relics by Richard King; Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales – reviews

A gritty oral history and a vibrant set of essays examine Wales’s past and its renewed sense of purpose, sparked by a new generation of Welsh speakers

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