Labour's growth fixation
Sir Keir Starmer took the chance to extend the hand of friendship to Britain’s neighbours when he hosted the European Political Community summit in Blenheim Palace on Thursday. The FT’s Lucy Fisher is...
19 Heinä 202434min
Labour builds bridges with Trump
Sir Keir Starmer spoke for the first time with Donald Trump in the wake of the assassination attempt on the former US president at the weekend. After years of criticising him, Labour ministers are try...
16 Heinä 202436min
Keir Starmer’s debut on the global stage
Keir Starmer’s quest for closer EU ties received a tacit nod from US President Joe Biden as the UK prime minister made his global debut at the Nato summit in Washington. Biden told Starmer that Britai...
12 Heinä 202441min
Keir Starmer enters his imperial phase
As Sir Keir Starmer appoints his cabinet and unveils his first raft of policies, host Lucy Fisher is joined by the FT’s deputy political editor Jim Pickard and columnist Stephen Bush to assess the new...
9 Heinä 202435min
Election special: Starmer moves into Number 10
As Sir Keir Starmer steps over the threshold of Number 10, FT experts answer audience questions about what to expect from the new Labour government. Will Keir Starmer’s landslide victory lead to lasti...
5 Heinä 202459min
Campaign catch-up: election-eve predictions and verdicts
Labour is heading for the biggest “landslide majority” Britain has ever seen. That’s the verdict from Mel Stride, one of prime minister Rishi Sunak’s closest ministerial allies, who has in effect conc...
3 Heinä 202436min
Could the election results still surprise us?
With under a week to go until polling day, Lucy Fisher and her panel — the FT’s Miranda Green and Stephen Bush — pull together the threads of the campaign to explore the remaining ‘known unknowns’ in ...
28 Kesä 202436min
Campaign catch-up: Why this UK election result could be the most distorted ever
The Conservatives’ embattled campaign suffered yet another setback this week, as the betting scandal escalated and the party finally suspended two candidates ensnared by the row. But when did it first...
25 Kesä 202428min
