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Gordon Brown wants £3 billion for the ‘austerity generation’. But the UK needs a more enduring solution

Former prime minister Gordon Brown has called for a rescue plan for some of the UK’s most vulnerable young people. There are, he said, 3.4 million children born after 2010 who are in poverty and whose development has been affected by the austerity policies of Conservative-led governments.

The Conversation

Keir Starmer puts six key pledges ‘up in lights’ to win over swing voters

Campaign material to include pledges on NHS wait times and recruiting teachers

The Guardian - UK

‘We had money! It was brilliant!’ Margaret Hodge on Labour governments, life as a migrant and quitting as an MP

After 30 years in parliament, the former minister will stand down at the next election. She talks about her battles with Jeremy Corbyn, her fury at Priti Patel and Suella Braverman, and the awfulness of austerity

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A mug’s game: the politics of Rishi Sunak’s crockery choices

Patriotic teaware was on show from the prime minister this week – the latest round of his mug-based messaging

The Guardian - UK

Frank Field saw benefit in the Lib Dems. In this election year, Labour would be wise to do the same

The late elder statesman understood the need for a progressive realignment of British politics. That prize shouldn’t be lost, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

The Guardian - UK

Margaret Thatcher set Britain’s decline in motion – so why can’t politics exorcise her ghost?

MPs on all sides pay homage, while her failures are forgotten, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Senior Labour figures call for ‘life-transforming’ Sure Start policy

Gordon Brown and three former education ministers say New Labour’s acclaimed early-years programme benefited millions

The Guardian - UK

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The Guardian view on Labour’s economic plans: a response too small for the challenge the UK faces

Editorial: A radical agenda is needed to deal with the crises of economic stagnation, political polarisation and the climate emergency. Rachel Reeves did not offer one

The Guardian - UK

Starmer’s team coached for government over dinners with top Whitehall figures

Shadow ministers step up preparations by holding informal meals to pick the brains of senior political figures

The Guardian - UK

On Course For Power, UK's Labour Prepares For A Quick Change

If the main opposition Labor party wins the next UK general election as opinion polls indicate, then a familiar sight will appear outside the prime minister's official residence the next day: removal vans.

International Business Times

Demoralised and shattered: yes, the left in the UK is down. But here’s why it isn’t out

Starmer is intent on eliminating the ‘Corbynite rump’, but their ideas are far more plausible in our age of staggering inequality, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

The Guardian - UK

Art of the attack ad: six memorable angles the Conservatives have tried

Tory ads for general elections have ramped up paranoia over quality of life, the economy and Labour politicians’ integrity

The Guardian - UK

Derek Draper: the ‘cocky know-it-all’ who rebuilt his life after scandal

Former lobbyist and Labour insider reinvented himself as a therapist after twice withdrawing from politics

The Guardian - UK

Derek Draper: A vigorous person who should be remembered for so much more than his suffering

The abiding image most of the public have of Draper – the beloved husband of Kate Garraway – is of someone struggling incredibly hard against his frailty. Here, Sean O’Grady reflects on the career of a man who had a front-row seat for the New Labour project

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Derek Draper obituary

Political adviser during the New Labour era until the 1998 Lobbygate scandal who became a psychotherapist

Evening Standard

New Labour spin doctor Derek Draper was part of media power couple

The former political adviser retrained as a psychotherapist and married TV presenter Kate Garraway.

Evening Standard

Derek Draper: Kate Garraway announces death of husband, 56, saying she was ‘holding his hand when he passed’

Draper, 56, had struggled with health issues since contracting Covid and being placed in an induced coma in 2020

The Guardian - UK

A lesson from Harold Wilson for Keir Starmer: don’t let the right undermine Labour’s achievements

Millions of lives were improved by reforms in the 1960s and 70s, from anti-racism laws to equal pay – yet many voters see his tenure as a failure, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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A Century of Labour by Jon Cruddas review – what does the party stand for?

The MP and former policy chief sets out the battle of ideas that has shaped Labour from Attlee to Starmer

The National (Scotland)

Billboard showing Keir Starmer as Blair in disguise appears in Scottish town

A BILLBOARD depicting Keir Starmer as Tony Blair in disguise in a Scooby Doo-style parody has appeared in a Scottish town.

The Independent UK

Peter Mandelson attacks ‘ridiculous’ calls for Starmer to back Gaza ceasefire

New Labour guru compares Israel’s war on ‘cold-blooded murderers’ in Hamas to UK’s fight against IRA

The Guardian - UK

The ‘let Rishi be Rishi’ plan is a disaster. Only a John Major strategy can halt Tory armageddon now

The byelection routs proved that rebranding the PM as a rightwing radical alienates voters, says the former Conservative minister Justine Greening

The Independent UK

Things we learned at the Labour Party conference

Sir Keir Starmer said the party was on a journey from protest to power – although one glitter-throwing demonstrator did not get the memo.

The Independent UK

Peter Mandelson wants GB News to survive – because it ‘stirs’ up Tory divisions

New Labour mastermind says channel is ‘undoing’ the Tory party. ‘And very timely it is too’

The Guardian - UK

Is Keir Starmer misremembering Labour’s 1997 victory? I was there, and we were radical

The opposition leader seems to think that Labour needs to water down policies on tax and the climate crisis, writes former Labour cabinet minister Clare Short

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