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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.

The Conversation · Feb 17

How the Iron Lady was forged

To appreciate the greatness of Margaret Thatcher — as this excellent biography makes possible — you must go back to Grantham where she lived over her parents’ grocery shop. There was no hereditary money, so she had to work hard, occasionally serving at the counter. She experienced frugality and, after…

Evening Standard · Sep 28, 2025

When Thatcher took performance lessons from Laurence Olivier, it changed the course of her political destiny

The PM’s makeover collaboration was kept a closely guarded secret for fear it would hurt her ‘ordinary housewife’ image, says writer and broadcaster Tim Walker

The Guardian - UK · Feb 11, 2025

British Prime Minister's D-Day Commemoration Controversy

British PM Rishi Sunak's early exit from D-Day events sparks controversy, impacting election campaign.

Top News · Jun 8, 2024

Like it’s 1997? Major’s lot weren’t so pointless, poisonous or loathed

In the history of fag-end governments, Sunak’s must be the worst

The Guardian - UK · Mar 17, 2024

Forty years on from the miners’ strike, unions are flexing their muscles

While numbers may not have fully recovered the climate is now in very much in trade unions’ favour

The Guardian - UK · Feb 25, 2024

OPINION - I'm addicted to old BBC election night broadcasts — this is what I've learnt

On reflection, David Owen was probably too “leading man handsome” to help the SDP break the mould of British politics. That’s right, I’ve been re-watching old BBC election night broadcasts again. This time, it’s back to the Seventies and Eighties for Ted Heath’s miscalculation, Jim Callaghan’s sunny (albeit misplaced) optimism…

Evening Standard · Dec 15, 2023

Shambolic Tory government has no answers to drug addiction problem

Conservative thinking has barely evolved since the Misuse of Drugs Act was passed by Ted Heath’s government in 1971.

Daily Record · Jul 12, 2023

Food price cap may be on the way as Rishi Sunak puts pressure on supermarkets

The intervention would be the biggest attempt to manage supermarket prices since Ted Heath set up price controls in 1973

Chronicle Live · May 31, 2023

The spectre of price controls is back to spook Sunak – and Thatcherite myths won’t save him

The prime minister is stubbornly attached to an outdated ideology, but has no plan for adapting to volatile times, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK · May 31, 2023