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The Latest Breaking News from Blue Labour

The truth about Keir Starmer's reshuffle – and who's really got the power

THE definition of insanity is, famously, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

The National (Scotland)

Voices: Is Shabana Mahmood the ‘Maggie Thatcher of the left’?

COMMENT: If the new home secretary can succeed in closing migrant hotels and stopping the boats, she will single-handedly revive Labour’s fortunes – and she might also cement herself as Keir Starmer’s successor, says Simon Walters

The Independent UK

Shabana Mahmood appointed Home Secretary amid pressure to tackle migration

Her appointment comes amid discontent over asylum hotels and record numbers of Channel crossings.

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Shabana Mahmood appointed Home Secretary after cabinet reshuffle

Mahmood replaces Yvette Cooper in the role amid pressure over migration and asylum hotels

The Independent UK

Blue Labour leader Dan Carden switches to vote against assisted dying bill

Liverpool Walton MP, who previously abstained, says legislation would diminish values of family and community

The Guardian - UK

Blue Labour’s ‘scrap DEI’ call could shatter the party

Letters: Chas Townley says some Labour MPs may have to start finding a new centre-left political home, in response to calls from Blue Labour to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. Plus a letter from Dr Denis MacShane

The Guardian - UK

Labour faction calls on Keir Starmer to 'root out DEI'

KEIR Starmer is facing calls from a “conservative” faction of his party to “rout out DEI” to win over Reform UK voters ...

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Blue Labour group urges ministers to ‘root out DEI’ to win over Reform voters

Faction influencing No 10 says government should legislate against DEI in hiring, sentencing and ‘wherever else’

The Guardian - UK

Keeping Farage from No 10 is ‘a battle for UK’s future, heart and soul’, Labour MPs told

In face of ‘economic doom loop’, Labour factions call for reset and demand party tackle populist nationalism head on

The Guardian - UK

Is Blue Labour really the answer to Keir Starmer’s woes?

Letters: Jim Denham says Maurice Glasman’s views pander to Faragism, in response to an article by Julian Coman. Plus letters from Austen Lynch and Peter Brooker

The Guardian - UK

An exiled group within Labour is making a comeback – it could hold the key to repelling Farage

Many of Blue Labour’s diagnoses have been proved correct. With Reform targeting Labour’s working-class support, a reappraisal is overdue, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

The Guardian - UK

Labour peer calls for ‘arrogant’ attorney general to be sacked

Blue Labour founder Maurice Glasman also calls Richard Hermer a ‘progressive fool’ in New Statesman interview

The Guardian - UK

The Farage effect: why Keir Starmer is styling Labour as the ‘disruptors’

From the third runway to Rosebank, the party is rethinking policies, amid the threat of Reform and return of Trump

The Guardian - UK

From Aristotle to Meloni, the ‘common good’ has been used to divide and rule

Thinkers on the left and right are guilty of excluding outsiders in the name of community

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Maurice Glasman, architect of Blue Labour: ‘Labour needs to be itself again’

Ten years ago, political theorist Maurice Glasman was one of Labour’s brightest stars – until a fall from grace. Now, back with a new book, he talks about conservative socialism, backing Brexit – and why Keir Starmer must seize this moment

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