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Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, May 14, 2025
Labour Party / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
Former Labour leader and Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn addresses campaigners from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign taking part in a protest outside Downing Street, London, to oppose the upcoming visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, September 9, 2025
Politics / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan at the launch of the Holiday Hope programme, July 24, 2025
Britain / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
Former Labour leader and Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn joins workers on the picket line at the Village Hotel in Glasgow who have been on a month-long strike over pay and conditions, August 22, 2025
Politics / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage during an appearance on LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast show, at the Global Studios in London, September 24, 2025
Reform UK / 24 September 2025
24 September 2025
Former Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn M.P. (left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022
Politics / 23 September 2025
23 September 2025
Zarah Sultana Your Party south west London September 11 2025 .jpg
Features / 20 September 2025
20 September 2025

ANDREW MURRAY breaks down this week’s rift in the new left party that was at one point polling at 15 per cent of the vote without even having formed — whether it will form now has been thrown into a pit of doubt

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK, September 18, 2025
Britain / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025
Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022
Politics / 18 September 2025
18 September 2025
Stop Trump Coalition campaigners take part in a protest march from Portland Place to Parliament Square in London, on day one of the US President's second state visit to the UK, September 17, 2025
Britain / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025

Thousands march in London to tell Trump he is not welcome

Leader of the House of Commons Lucy Powell speaking during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, September 22, 2024
Labour Party / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
Jeremy Corbyn (second left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South (second right) on the picket line outside London Euston train station, August 18, 2022
Politics / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025
A Stop Trump Scotland protest outside the US Consulate in Edinburgh, during President Donald Trump's five-day private trip to the country, September 16, 2025
Britain / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025
DECISIVE RESPONSE: Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) activists block the way of the Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march on Whitehall in central London on September 13 2025.
Eyes Left / 17 September 2025
17 September 2025

ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand 

Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson leaves 10 Downing Street, London, after a Cabinet meeting, September 2, 2025
Labour Party / 11 September 2025
11 September 2025
UK Ambassador to the US, Lord Peter Mandelson arrives at the Cabinet Office in central London, June 18, 2025
Labour Party / 10 September 2025
10 September 2025
Labour MP for Stretham Bell Ribeiro-Addy speaks at a rally outside Kings Cross Station, London, November 30, 2022
Labour Party / 9 September 2025
9 September 2025
MUSICAL CHAIR AT No 10: Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer addresses the reshuffled Cabinet on September 9 2025
Eyes Left / 10 September 2025
10 September 2025

A ‘new phase’ for Starmerism is fairly similar to the old phase – only worse. ANDREW MURRAY takes a look

Labour Party / 4 September 2025
4 September 2025
Angela Rayner, July 3, 2025
Labour Party / 4 September 2025
4 September 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, September 3, 2025
Britain / 3 September 2025
3 September 2025
Liz Truss during the Conservative Party Conference at the International Convention Centre in Birmingham, September 30, 2024
Britain / 3 September 2025
3 September 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves listens to Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking at the launch of the Government's 10-year health plan during a visit to the Sir Ludwig Guttman Health & Wellbeing Centre in east London, July 3, 2025
Politics / 2 September 2025
2 September 2025
THEN AND NOW: Then-leader Jeremy Corbyn receives rapturous applause at the 2015 Labour Party conference, a period that Zarah Sultana has recently critically assessed
Eyes Left / 3 September 2025
3 September 2025

Zarah Sultana’s recent brave criticisms of Labour from 2015 to 2020, including Brexit triangulation, IHRA capitulation and insufficient fighting spirit, have ruffled feathers but started an essential discussion, writes ANDREW MURRAY

Zack Polanski after being announced as the new leader of the Green Party at Coin Street Neighbourhood Centre, London, September 2, 2025
Green Party / 2 September 2025
2 September 2025
starmer symptom
Books / 28 August 2025
28 August 2025

ANDREW MURRAY recommends a volume of essays that nail the visionless, racist and neoliberal character of policy under Starmer’s Labour Party

Former Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn M.P. (left) and Zarah Sultana, MP for Coventry South on the picket line outside London Euston train station. Picture date: Thursday August 18, 2022
Parliamentary Politics / 24 July 2025
24 July 2025

Corbyn and Sultana commit to launching new socialist party

Former home secretary James Cleverly delivers a speech at The Institute for Public Policy (IPPR) in London, July 15, 2025
Tory Party / 22 July 2025
22 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech at the Government's first Civil Society Summit in London, July 17, 2025
Eyes Left / 23 July 2025
23 July 2025

If Labour MPs who rebelled over the welfare reforms expected to be listened to, they shouldn’t have underestimated the vindictiveness of the Starmer regime. But a new left party that might rehome them is yet to be established, writes ANDREW MURRAY
 

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech at the government's first Civil Society Summit in London, which aims to bring together leaders from charities, expert groups, communities, and government, July 17, 2025
Britain / 17 July 2025
17 July 2025

Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (left) and Minister of State for Employment, Alison McGovern during their visit to Hillside Mental Health Charity in Islington, London, following the publication of the government's 'Get Britain Working' white paper to tackle economic inactivity. Picture date: Wednesday November 27, 2024
Labour / 17 July 2025
17 July 2025

TUC general secretary urges Bank of England to cut interest rates

A polling station in Coalisland, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, May 18, 2023
Politics / 17 July 2025
17 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, July 16, 2025
Labour Party / 16 July 2025
16 July 2025
The Peers' Entrance to the Palace of Westminster
Workers' Rights / 16 July 2025
16 July 2025
The Bank of England in the City of London
Economy / 16 July 2025
16 July 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves sits alongside Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Emma Reynolds, during a roundtable discussion with top finance executives at the Lloyds Banking Group's offices, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, July 15, 2025
Economy / 15 July 2025
15 July 2025
A banner for Hillsborough Law, April 20, 2024
Britain / 15 July 2025
15 July 2025
People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels make their way to the center of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, January 26, 2025
Britain / 15 July 2025
15 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, July 9, 2025
Welfare / 10 July 2025
10 July 2025
A Universal Credit sign on a door of a job centre plus in east London
Welfare / 9 July 2025
9 July 2025
A school teacher looking stressed next to piles of classroom
Education / 9 July 2025
9 July 2025