With the Sunday papers predicting a return to Westminster for Andy Burnham, Shabana Mahmood doing the keynote interview at the annual Tony Blair Christmas gig, and Wes Streeting featuring as the main interview in the New Statesman’s final issue of the year, what can Keir Starmer do to stop the speculation about his leadership?
The Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have come out of their respective party conferences looking stronger – but for how long?
This week it was the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, and it was badged as the conference that was make or break for Keir Starmer.
Keir Starmers latest reset has not gone according to plan. But has the PM turned the crisis into an opportunity?
Parliament returned after the summer recess, the PM reshuffled his team – and within 48 hours Labour was embroiled in another unfortunate controversy. Frank McKenna suggests that Keir Starmer may be under as much pressure to keep his job as Angela Rayner is to keep hers.
Downtown in Business group chair and chief executive Frank McKenna offers his reflections on a special Labour Party reception hosted in London this week.
Jim has a gloomy view about the government’s ability to quickly turn
around its fortunes. He also reflects on the death of Lord Tebbit.
Do we have a government that is good at getting things done- but bad at politics?
Is Andy Burnham Labour’s antidote to Nigel Farage?
Rachel Reeves announced her long awaited Spending Review last Wednesday and the DIB podcast team reflect about what that might do in terms of Labour’s polling fortunes.
Who knows if the Prime Minister is a fan of Cher but one of her biggest hits ,‘If I Could Turn Back Time’ might be on his mind.
