SOLOMON HUGHES says Starmer has done everything the Westminster set think Labour leaders should do – but it hasn’t endeared him to the public
From freebie frocks to foreign policy, conference only exposed the cracks in Starmer’s project
The lack of serious debate on electoral weakness and key policy issues only made the disconnect between the leadership’s austerity agenda and the concerns of the party’s rank-and-file more blatant, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 24, 2024
MATT KERR reflects on the perversity of the honours system and why he’s proud to be a friend of Tressa Burke, who declined an MBE at a time when the government wages war on disabled people
KENNY MacASKILL pays tribute to Alex McDade, the International Brigader who fell at Brunete but wrote one of the most famous songs to emerge from the Spanish Civil War
STEVE BISHOP looks at what has triggered the mass protests in Iran
The Morning Star sorts the good eggs from the rotten scoundrels of the year just gone
1943-2025: How one man’s unfinished work reveals the lethal lie of ‘colour-blind’ medicine
LABOUR conference? The first thing to understand is that it is not, in essence, a very serious event.
A serious Labour Party conference this year would have included a sober review of the party’s election result, which yielded a large but highly brittle majority on a puny vote share.
The reasons for polling around 10 per cent less of the electorate than anticipated would be examined, and ideas for how to do better next time explored.
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