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response from across the party, where Blair’s legacy remains highly contentious. On Tuesday, one senior source accused him of abandoning social democratic values to embrace an agenda that had “no answers”. But Blair also
Starmer made his party an “acceptable default” at the 2024 election. Wes Streeting is a “huge political talent”. But overall, the intervention by the former prime minister almost feels designed to inflict maximum annoyance
government in 2002, the Pensions Commission [was revived by Keir Starmer last year](https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jul/21/ministers-to-revive-blair-era-pensions-commission-tackle-savings-crisis), amid fears that a crisis in saving for retirement could mean today’s workers will be poorer in later
responsible for the appointment, prior to Mandelson's appointment. The point was to identify reputational risks or potential conflicts of interests that may have needed to be considered in Mandelson's case. Sir Chris Wormald
responsibility is to keep the British people safe, and that is a duty I take seriously. That is why I do not agree with his comments last February.” Questioned about when a promised defence investment
response to which the mandarin would artfully deploy the most astonishing sophistry to avoid blame or get his own way. Jim Hacker, the largely clueless yet ambitious politician played by the late Paul Eddington, rarely
Starmer, an incumbent premier with a bigger parliamentary majority than his transformative predecessor Clement Attlee won in 1945. What is driving this narrative? Why is the UK churning through its leaders almost as quickly