Keir Starmer will resign as leader of the Labour Party and prime minister, he has announced in a speech outside No 10.

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How did it all go so wrong for Keir Starmer? Over the following hours, days and weeks, Starmer’s supporters will make the ...

The fixation on who will be PM obscures the deeper forces shaping Britain’s finances – and the cost of addressing them By Dominic Caddick Judging by much of the coverage of the Makerfield by-election, ...

The Manchester mayor made some fairly concrete proposals for what he would do as prime minister By Ethan Croft Andy Burnham has said he wants Britain to rejoin the European Union as he continues to ...

Andy Burnham will need to do more than follow the rules if he wants to lead Britain By Phil Tinline In his acceptance speech in the early hours of Friday, a victorious Andy Burnham sought to convince ...

The MP for Norwich South on the fractured left and the future of the party. By Clive Lewis In a packed fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in 1980, cigarette smoke hung thickly beneath dim, ...

The boycott movement is a response to occupation, not a rejection of Israelis as people By Ishai Menuchin The publication of Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo in Hebrew has understandably attracted attention ...

Finn McRedmond is a staff writer at the New Statesman. finn.mcredmond@newstatesman.co.uk Brits just can’t stop frying the hell out of chickens What does muntjac taste like? The restaurateur keeps ...

Quinn Slobodian is a New Statesman contributing writer and the author of Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy. The richest man in the world chose a strange ...

Donald John Trump, born in 1946, is president of the United States, after beating Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. His previous term in office was from 2017 to 2021. His first presidency was marked ...