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Things going badly for Starmer is our opportunity
The sidelining of social democrats and embrace of deregulation comes at the same time as a remarkable collapse in public support for the current Labour regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY, so why don’t we go on the offensive?

IN politics, there are two sorts of issues — those that matter and those that “cut through.”

The latter are those which seize the popular imagination and shape perceptions of parties, politicians and governments.

Sometimes, the two categories overlap — as in the Palestine solidarity movement, for example. Other times, they dwell in separate political universes.

The end of the empire perhaps, but not British imperialism

Right-wing nutters: Tories spoiled for choice

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