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OPINION - If the Tories didn't like last night, they may not enjoy the upcoming local elections

This isn't going to be one of those newsletters that opens with a Tony Blair reference, a convoluted 1990s pop culture storyline or a self-deprecating yet witty personal anecdote. We can leave those at home. Instead, allow me to regurgitate three things the godfather of psephology, Sir John Curtice, said…

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Keir Starmer is the king of the monster swings, beating Blair and Thatcher

The Wellingborough byelection was the Labour leader’s fourth mammoth turnaround, as the Tories suffered a record fall

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OPINION - The speed with which Keir Starmer has transformed Labour is both his greatest success and clearest weakness

The Ship of Theseus paradox is perhaps best demonstrated by the 2000s pop band, Sugababes (see: hit, after hit, after hit). The three original members, Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhan Donaghy each eventually left the group to be replaced in turn by a new singer, until none of the…

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The frightening thing is not that Tories are paraded as more fiscally competent. It’s that even Labour believes it

Abandoning its £28bn green plan betrays a lack of self-belief that has long bedevilled the party, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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OPINION - Keir Starmer chose the lesser of two evils by ditching his £28bn green target

Once upon a time, it was possible to be all things to all people. Back in 1993, when Sir Tony Blair was invited to contribute his favourite recipe to the Islington Cookbook, he selected fettuccine with olive oil, sun-dried tomatoes and capers. By the time he entered Downing Street, his…

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OPINION - Liz Truss attacks ‘left-wing extremists’ as she launches Popular Conservatives

There are two ways to change a political party: from without or within. Tony Blair and Jeremy Corbyn both bent Labour to their will, albeit with differing electoral results. Conversely, Nigel Farage successfully forced the Conservatives to adopt his views on Europe and immigration through his use of the media…

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When the PM and Piers Morgan strike a £1,000 TV bet about desperate human lives, whom do you abhor the most?

No wonder Sunak today seeks to extricate himself. None of the world leaders I have interviewed would have behaved this way, says author and broadcaster Gavin Esler

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On Course For Power, UK's Labour Prepares For A Quick Change

If the main opposition Labor party wins the next UK general election as opinion polls indicate, then a familiar sight will appear outside the prime minister's official residence the next day: removal vans.

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Sir Tony Blair to publish book on political leadership

The former PM has written the manual for leadership he wanted to read in 1997

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University friend of Liz Truss and alleged Remainer Olly Robbins tipped to run Keir Starmer's government

Olly Robbins is rumoured to become one of the most powerful men in Britain

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OPINION - Ominous signs for Tories but 2024 different in many ways to 1997 defeat

Keiran Pedley, director of politics at Ipsos, analyses Rishi Sunak's chances of avoiding a landslide defeat for the Conservatives at the next election

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OPINION - Election polls predict big Labour win but parallels with Tony Blair's 1997 landslide end there

Blair surged to power with a Nineties soundtrack of optimism and Tory economic success. For Keir Starmer, if the polls are right, it will be a case of hard graft from day one, writes George Chesterton

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Thinking small may get Labour into No 10. It could also stop it staying there

Unlike Brown and Blair, who made bold changes early on, Starmer seems determined to offer as little as possible, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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‘We can’t engineer our way out of this’: how to protect flood-hit Severn Valley

Tens of millions have been spent on human-made defences over the years, but the impact of the climate crisis means flooding is inevitable

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Rish! rationalises his new bombing habit to a nonchalant Commons

A week after an edgy PM first explained the lesson he was teaching the Houthis, MPs barely blinked at the repeat session

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Art of the attack ad: six memorable angles the Conservatives have tried

Tory ads for general elections have ramped up paranoia over quality of life, the economy and Labour politicians’ integrity

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To hit the ground running rather than face first, Labour must prepare for power now

Sir Keir Starmer and his key personnel need to be thinking about how to do government not after the election, but before the weight of its pressures is on their shoulders

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Casting their shadow: how Trump, Putin and AI dominated talk at Davos

Neither man was present at World Economic Forum where Labour impressed global business chiefs

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Veteran Labour MP Sir Tony Lloyd Dies Aged 73 Following Announcement of Untreatable Leukaemia

The long-serving politician, who had been the MP for Rochdale since 2017, was diagnosed with blood cancer four years ago.

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer: Up Close review – the Labour leader desperately tries to prove he’s sexy

Over three months with Anushka Asthana, Starmer attempts to make the general public love him and let him move into Downing Street. There’s only one hitch …

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Sir Tony Lloyd obituary

Labour MP who served as a Foreign Office minister in the 1990s and later became Manchester’s police and crime commissioner

Evening Standard

Are Gen Z wrong to romanticise working class culture on TikTok?

The app is packed with trendy young types sinking pints at Wetherspoons, chomping down on fry ups and calling themselves 'charvas' — is this cosplaying offensive, or the ushering in of a new age? Maddy Mussen investigates

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What Palestinians in Gaza may fear even more than Israeli bombardment

In the past three months, 2 million Palestinians have been internally displaced by war. Some far-right Israeli officials want them to leave Gaza altogether — evoking the trauma of past displacement.

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Labour MP Tony Lloyd dies surrounded by family at age of 73

Veteran MP, who revealed last week he had an aggressive and untreatable form of blood cancer, died on Wednesday morning

The Guardian - UK

If Harrison Ford and John Travolta can be crowned living legends of aviation, why not Prince Harry?

In dark times, these are the heroes we need: one crash-landed, the other has a Boeing 707 in his driveway. The prince is in good company, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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