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Keir Starmer: ‘We can’t win power by spending. We need to reform and create wealth’

Exclusive: Labour leader urges left to ‘care more about growth’ and rules out spending ‘vast sums of money’

The Guardian - UK

'How can Labour level up Britain where the Tories have failed?'

Since my student years in the run-up to New Labour’s victory in 1997, we simply have not made enough progress in breaking down the barriers between the “haves’” and the “have nots”, writes Professor Graeme Atherton

Daily Mirror

A history of our regulatory failure and undervalued resources

It was New Labour who started the policy shift away from proper enforcement to advice and education, writes Steve Tombs, while Seán Marriott says water companies have no incentive to manage their key resource properly

The Guardian - UK

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Champagne with Rupert Murdoch … Keir Starmer’s Labour is preparing for power

The party is courting business and winning the media magnate’s ear, but team Starmer is at pains to show they take nothing for granted on the road to No 10

The Guardian - UK

Alastair Campbell says destructive campaigns are putting people off politics

The podcaster and former New Labour spin doctor said MPs needed to do more to look after their mental health.

The Independent UK

Wednesday briefing: What really ails the NHS at 75 – and three ways to treat it

In today’s newsletter: Staff are leaving in droves, wait times have tripled and critics say it’s locked in a ‘death spiral’. But the situation might not be terminal, with some big changes

The Guardian - UK

The toxic legacy of PFI, healthcare charges and a measure of gratitude

Letters: Prof Helen Colley fears PFI is bleeding the NHS dry, Purni Morell thinks increasing tax could save it, while Gill Empson makes a toast

The Guardian - UK

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OPINION - Sorry, Naomi, the truth is for a lot of women it can be too late for kids

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that in your 30s it’s all hen dos, weddings and babies and in your 40s it’s all rehab, divorce and failed IVF.

Evening Standard

Labour under pressure to axe two-child benefit limit

Left shifts tactics to ‘go with the grain’ of Keir Starmer’s project

The Guardian - UK

‘A tour de force’: tributes pour in for Margaret McDonagh, linchpin of Tony Blair’s New Labour

Party’s first female general secretary, who has died aged 61, was essential part of team behind party’s 1997 landslide victory

The Guardian - UK

Tributes paid to Margaret McDonagh who was 'unstoppable force' behind Labour's victories

Baroness McDonagh, who was Labour’s first female general secretary, was hailed as the 'absolutely essential' figure to the party's 1997 and 2001 election wins as it was announced she had died aged 61

Daily Mirror

Tony Blair’s bet on gambling Britain has spiralled out of control

Nearly two decades after New Labour revolutionised the gambling industry, millions of lives are being harmed for industry profits

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Business is open to Labour, now it wants to see how the sums add up

For decades, the Tories were seen as the custodians of business. New Labour worked hard to charm the City in the run up to 1997 but things went a bit tits up during the Corbyn years. However, Labour was afforded a golden opportunity to recouple when, in 2018, Boris Johnson…

Evening Standard

Pay attention to Rachel Reeves: her economic thinking is a return to sanity

The shadow chancellor has a vision for social democracy in an age of economic shocks and uncertainty, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer does have a vision – and it’s not New Labour 2.0

Defying political orthodoxy, the leader believes he can win an election outright by reuniting his party’s working- and middle-class wings, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Why Labour must heed the clamour for change

Letters: Keir Starmer should be bolder in setting out Labour’s vision for power, says David Reed. Plus letters from Les Bright and Howard B Broughton

The Guardian - UK

The Tories are on the ropes now – and Labour’s knockout blows are not far away

‘Boring’ Keir Starmer is more radical than you might think, and he’s already bringing home the votes, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer urged to unite with new generation of Labour’s left

A Momentum source said there’s a demand for ‘real ambition’ and more than ‘New Labour reruns’

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The Independent UK

Labour looks at giving EU citizens and 16-year-olds general election vote

Tories accuse Keir Starmer of trying to ‘rig’ future elections and reverse Brexit

The Independent UK

I don’t care if people think I’m a conservative, says Starmer as he vows New Labour ‘on steroids’

Opposition leader says he is rewriting party’s DNA and blasts ‘patronising contempt for those who fly our flag’

The National (Scotland)

Labour leader Keir Starmer: I don't care if I sound conservative

KEIR Starmer will say he does not care if he "sounds conservative" in a speech in which he will pledge to be like "Blair on…

The Conversation

Labour take note: red-wall voters want an ambitious plan for renewal – not tough talk and flag waving

If projections can be relied on, Labour has good reason to feel confident of supplanting the Conservatives as biggest party at the next general election. Yet it remains far from clear that Keir Starmer is heading for a House of Commons majority.

The Conversation

Why the Turner prize shortlist is a cultural barometer of our political times

The UK’s biggest prize for contemporary art is back. The 2023 Turner prize shortlist has been announced featuring British artists Jesse Darling, Rory Pilgrim, Ghislaine Leung and Barbara Walker.

The Independent UK

Starmer needs attack ads because Labour can’t count on right-wing press, says Mandelson

New Labour architect says he would have happily signed-off on ad condemned as ‘gutter politics’

The Guardian - UK

Thousands of people like me are locked up with no fixed release date all because of New Labour’s political arms race

Nearly 3,000 of us are still in jail because of the infamous ‘imprisonment for public protection’ sentence, says author Terence Smith

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