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From Harold Wilson to Liz Truss – what the fates of former prime ministers can teach Keir Starmer

Despite his name – honouring Keir Hardie, the first leader of the Labour party – Keir Starmer is not known to be a student of political history. This apparent incuriosity helps define an indistinct political identity.

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Irish officials criticised ‘venal’ Churchill amid King Edward VIII crisis

The British monarch abdicated on December 10 1936 and married American divorcee Wallis Simpson in June 1937.

Evening Standard

Responsibility without power: When human buffers become punching bags for the public

The passing of Britain’s well-known playwright Tom Stoppard late last month prompted many to recall his enduring body of work. Most tributes rightly recalled his theatre plays and screenplays. There was, however, less mention of his little-known novel Lord Malquist and Mr Moon, published in 1966, quite early in his…

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In cancelling his family summer holiday, Keir Starmer has made his first serious mistake

The days when Harold Macmillan could disappear to the grouse moors for the summer are gone – but even prime ministers need a break, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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Politicians being nice to each other won’t rescue our democracy – but civility empowers us all

The exchange between Carla Denyer and Thangam Debbonaire set just the right example, says the political journalist Anne Perkins

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Could Nigel Farage become the next Tory leader? In some ways, he already has

Rather than providing a check on the far right, the party opened the door to Faragism – and made his fantasies come true, says author Samuel Earle

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OPINION - If the polls are right, Keir Starmer will win a giant majority: could he handle it?

A century ago, in the general election of October 1924, Stanley Baldwin achieved a majority of 210 for the Conservatives; modestly describing the landslide as “a magnificent opportunity for service”. Though it is true that the National Government formed after the October 1931 election boasted a governing majority of no…

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Israel does not act for all Jews

A conversation about the effect of Israel’s actions in Gaza is vital

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The Men of 1924 by Peter Clark; The Wild Men by David Torrance review – Labour’s first taste of power

One hundred years since Ramsay MacDonald led his cabinet of workers into Number 10, two engrossing books illuminate the party’s extraordinary leading players and their achievement, largely unheralded, in making the country more civilised

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The Wild Men by David Torrance review – inside Labour’s first cabinet

An engrossing account of the perilous course charted by Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s first Labour prime minister

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After 14 years of Tory misrule, voters will crave a fresh start. That may be a blessing for Starmer – or a curse

British politics has been drained of all credibility. The Labour leader could turn low expectations to his advantage – for a time, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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How should Keir Starmer take on 2024? By looking back a century to Labour’s first government

Ramsay MacDonald’s short-lived victory holds three key lessons, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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David Cameron: lessons from other ex-prime ministers who returned to government

Rishi Sunak’s decision to appoint former prime minister David (now Lord) Cameron as his foreign secretary has surprised and divided opinion, not least since Cameron left politics in 2016. It is not, however, without precedent for former prime ministers former to return to government.

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The Mail and the Telegraph owned by the same man? It would be a disaster for the UK’s free press

I like Lord Rothermere, but a media landscape dominated by a few powerful figures is a grave threat to our democracy, says the Conservative MP David Davis

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When Winston Went to War With the Wireless review – radio is the star of BBC crisis drama

Jack Thorne’s dramatisation of the power play between the UK government and the broadcaster in 1920s Britain is pacy and evocative

Evening Standard

When Winston Went to War With the Wireless at the Donmar Warehouse review: history repeats itself

The feud between Conservative politicians and our national broadcaster has been ongoing for longer than you think

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The BBC's history from children’s entertainment to the General Strike

PROVING that sometimes history can be relevant today, in the past week we have been hearing a lot about the BBC’s impartiality in light of Gary…

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Odds on Boris Johnson making a remarkable political comeback

No other post-war PM has succeeded in climbing back to the top

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Media deference to the royals must have a limit – just look at how Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson were treated

Britain’s period of national mourning following the death of Queen Elizabeth underlined the reverence with which many in the UK regard the royal family. Intense and mainly loyal coverage by broadcasters and newspapers took pains to remind us that some of history’s most deplorable regimes were republics and that monarchs…

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With him right until the very end, the Tory press who loved Johnson as one of their own

The PM had willing stooges as he pushed standards in public life to a shameful new low

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Tory leaders who faced leadership vote and what happened to them

Boris Johnson isn't the first Conservative Prime Minister to face a no-confidence vote. Here we look at others and how they fared

The Guardian - UK

Just what exactly is continuing to keep Boris Johnson in power?

It could be the war but it’s more likely Tory magical thinking helping the PM hold on – and even magic wears off in the end

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