The morning media coverage suggests that Keir Starmer now has only one way to survive as leader of the Labour Party. He must, apparently, finally
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Rule by a single party in Westminster is no longer credible. What’s next?
Something tilted in my way of thinking yesterday afternoon when I heard the news that Morgan McSweeney had resigned as Keir Starmer’s chief of staff.
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The costs of Labour’s chaos
As I expected, Morrgan McSweeney has gone. I remain quite sure that Starmer will go. And in the short term, there will be a cost
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The runners and riders, and viable outcomes
Who will succeed Starmer? He will go. I cannot see any alternative. Labour MPs will now realise that their futures depend entirely on him going.
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Can the Greens deliver?
Mass membership growth means something real is happening in the Green Party in England and Wales. People – who I call the watermelons, as they’re
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The odds are stacked against people
I keep saying that share prices are over-inflated, because they are. So too are house prices, as I have also said for a long time.
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The rise of the watermelons
If you were once left of centre in the UK, you thought of Labour as your natural political home. You do not any longer. That
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Politics for People and the political economy of care: the core principles
One of the reasons why debate here at Funding the Future has focused so heavily on issues around the term the politics of care, and its
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Politics for People – and why we have chosen the phrase
To continue the story of the narrative we are developing to explain the politics of care in a way that is easier for people to
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