Starmer under pressure as Labour big beasts warn he has ‘lost grip’ after Sue Gray row Labour grandees say rows that led to resignation of PM’s top aide ‘uncomfortable’ The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2024
Keir Starmer and top Labour colleagues to stop taking clothes gifts from donors Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner will not accept donations for work outfits after row over Waheed Alli gifts The Guardian - UK · Sep 20, 2024
The real Kemi Badenoch: key revelations from a new tell-all book “Blue Ambition: The Unauthorised Biography of Kemi Badenoch” by Lord Ashcroft is out now Evening Standard · Jul 30, 2024
Tory jibes about Keir Starmer and family time show how out of touch party is MPs and others have stressed how important time away from work is for those in top jobs The Guardian - UK · Jul 2, 2024
The women who came before: Rachel Reeves’s three Labour leading lights Reeves, who could be Britain’s first female chancellor, has named three women on whose shoulders she would stand The Guardian - UK · Jun 19, 2024
Harriet Harman: ‘Sunak thinks the economy is going to get worse. Otherwise he would wait’ The Labour veteran entered the commons as one of only 21 women, then spent years fighting for a seat at the table. She discusses sexism, backlash and power as she prepares to leave parliament The Guardian - UK · May 27, 2024
‘I perpetually think we’ll win. We always lose’: Labour’s Jon Cruddas on elections, class and life as an MP The member for Dagenham and Rainham says he can’t wait to leave parliament. So why did he spend the past 23 years there? And what does he think he achieved? The Guardian - UK · May 20, 2024
Lord Field of Birkenhead obituary MP for Birkenhead for 40 years and former Labour minister who was asked to ‘think the unthinkable’ about welfare reform The Guardian - UK · Apr 24, 2024
Judges didn’t see what the fuss over Garrick Club was about – they do now Twelve years after former supreme court president Brenda Hale criticised membership, judges seem to finally grasp what she meant The Guardian - UK · Mar 25, 2024
Senior Labour figures seeking to water down plans to decriminalise abortion MPs due to have free vote on proposal but some in party have privately expressed concerns it goes too far The Guardian - UK · Mar 23, 2024
James Corden to return to London stage in political drama The Constituent Joe Penhall’s new play marks the talkshow host’s first theatre role since One Man, Two Guvnors and will see him star opposite Anna Maxwell Martin at the Old Vic The Guardian - UK · Mar 20, 2024
Garrick Club’s men-only members list reveals roll-call of British establishment Exclusive: Details made public for first time prompt anger over how many influential figures belong to club that bars women The Guardian - UK · Mar 18, 2024
‘This place is utterly dysfunctional’: MPs on why they’re leaving parliament Almost 100 MPs will stand down at the next election – and for many it won’t come a moment too soon. Here, Harriet Harman, Charles Walker, Caroline Lucas and others talk about what life inside Westminster is really like The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024
Exodus of long-serving MPs leaves Commons facing wave of change Exhaustion and a desire to avoid a spell in opposition are factors in why a large group will stand down at next election The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 18, 2024 Standing down: who are the MPs calling time before the next UK election? Ninety MPs, including 14 former secretaries of state, have said they will not be standing for re-election in 2024
The Guardian - UK · Feb 1, 2024 Harriet Harman urges party leaders to address MPs’ safety Labour MP says Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer must agree on ensuring election campaign is not marred by threats
The Independent UK · Oct 18, 2023 Harriet Harman elected as new head of MPs’ sleaze watchdog The former cabinet minister, who led the probe into whether Boris Johnson misled MPs, will replace her party colleague Sir Chris Bryant.
The Independent UK · Oct 10, 2023 Indie band Easy Life backed by Tom Watson and Harriet Harman over ‘cruel’ easyJet lawsuit Budget airline’s brand company has been criticised for launching legal action against the band, who formed under the name Easy Life in 2017
The Independent UK · Oct 9, 2023 Indie band Easy Life backed by Tom Watson and Harriet Harman over ‘cruel’ easyJet lawsuit Budget airline’s parent company has been criticised for launching legal action against the band, who formed under the name Easy Life in 2017
The Guardian - UK · Oct 5, 2023 ‘It was electrifying’: the inside story of Labour’s 1997 election landslide Paranoia, relentless activity, infighting – the people who saw it all look back on the dizzying days that made political history
The Guardian - UK · Oct 1, 2023 Bluestockings. Unshaggables. It’s how Laurence Fox and co put strong women down The ex-actor joins other famous misogynists in exposing their many limitations
The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2023 Harriet Harman hoping to take over as chair of standards watchdog Labour MP Stella Creasy also vying for role that became vacant when former chair Chris Bryant was given shadow cabinet role
The Independent UK · Sep 7, 2023 Harriet Harman seeks sleaze watchdog role after chairing Johnson probe The senior Labour parliamentarian has thrown her hat in the ring to replace party colleague Chris Bryant as chair of the Commons Standards Committee.
Evening Standard · Aug 25, 2023 OPINION - Even if you hate Ulez, you should be angry that central government tried to block it George Osborne used to tell the world’s most expensive jokes. At the 2015 Budget, the then-chancellor said £1 million would be spent to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt, primarily to land a gag about a Labour-SNP alliance. Further public money was allocated to reducing tolls on…
The Independent UK · Aug 8, 2023 Harriet Harman hails ‘heroic’ Tory MPs who punished Boris Four Conservatives were hit by ‘real harassment’ from party colleagues, says committee chair