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...Barrow was sent to Brussels after his predecessor was forced out by then prime minister Theresa May and went on to play a key role in the Brexit negotiations....
...He is politically close to Labour’s director of campaigns, Morgan McSweeney, an adviser to party leader Sir Keir Starmer....
...The paper from the Eurasia Group political consultancy cited unnamed “senior Labour insiders” as saying the party would seek to revive a high-alignment deal, originally brokered by former prime minister Theresa...
...Theresa May was criticised for a lack-lustre campaign in 2017, when she lost her majority. How important is the wider context?...
...There is less evidence that mandates trouble Keir Starmer himself....
...For today, some thoughts about what went wrong for Theresa May in 2017 and why it happened....
...The sparse details sounded like an echo of the rattling chains of the Chequers plan drawn up by Theresa May, when she was prime minister in 2018....
...Gordon Brown and Theresa May are, in different ways, doing the same thing: focusing on elements which people generally agree they did successfully in their careers....
...So there isn’t, for the Labour party is, why Keir is absolutely right to be cautious about all of this....
...Lord Gavin Barwell, who was former prime minister Theresa May’s chief of staff, said it was “hugely frustrating” that it had taken “so long” for Downing Street to call Hester’s reported language racist....
...Theresa May has become the latest Conservative MP to announce plans to stand down at the next election....
...Former Tory premier Theresa May was greeted by similar shows of support at a 1922 meeting shortly before her defenestration in 2017....
...“A Labour government had one or two differences of view, grey areas, but the convention was observed by David Cameron . . . and by Theresa May.”...
...Robert ShrimsleyIn fairness to Theresa May, I haven’t read it, I think it’s a good call, don’t read it....
...That his critics are polling Sunak and Keir Starmer’s appeal against a fictional Conservative candidate is the biggest thing that Sunak has going for him: it highlights that while he may not be a perfect...
...All of this helps Keir Starmer and the Labour party. But it is also good news for Rishi Sunak....
...But that’s not possible until Keir Starmer and his top team decide, in concrete terms, where to set the cursor on EU relations....
...Labour in waiting | Keir Starmer has written to the head of the civil service to request the start of access talks designed to prepare officials for a possible change in government, ITV News reveals....
...The ally adds: “Keir’s mission is winning the election; Tony’s is radical modernisation. His zeal can be offputting.”...
...Rishi Sunak has faced heavy criticism for missing a parliamentary vote on the report into Boris Johnson’s conduct, as former prime minister Theresa May said it was “doubly important” for Tory MPs to publicly...
...Keir Starmer is having “ongoing discussions” with Sadiq Khan about the expansion of London’s ultra low emissions zone (Ulez)....
...But he is warm to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, who wants closer relations, albeit while staying outside the single market and customs union....
...We know already there’s this attack campaign against Keir Starmer from the Conservatives....
...Sunak was recently left unable to give an answer when an interviewer asked him to say something positive about Sir Keir Starmer: not a question that Cameron would have struggled with....
...Quite a loss for Keir Starmer, and some around him lamenting her departure....
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