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Keir Starmer

Right-Wing Watch

The Epstein files and the right’s ‘selective transparency’

Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead
7 February, 2026

Even the young women and children who suffered because of the egos and sexual appetites of these powerful men are increasingly marginalised, and certainly the obscure source of Epstein’s wealth becomes lost in the psycho drama of media coverage. 

Zack Polanski speaking in a Green Party political broadcast
Opinion

Zack Polanski Learned What Starmer Refuses To: Every Good Story Needs a Villain

India Thorogood
6 February, 2026

Labour is failing to make a compelling case against the far-right, argues progressive campaigns adviser India Thorogood

Keir Starmer at PMQs

Labour MPs and groups react to Mandelson’s US ambassador appointment and Epstein ties

Olivia Barber
4 February, 2026

“While working people faced the fallout of a financial crisis he helped manage, he was exchanging power and access with a convicted criminal.”

Andy Burnham
News

Number 10 says Andy Burnham was told in advance he would be rejected as Labour by-election candidate

Basit Mahmood
27 January, 2026

No 10 “therefore interpret his application as an explicit attempt to destabilise Starmer and sow dissent, rather than – which he claims – see off the threat from Reform”

Andy Burnham
News

How Labour MPs have reacted to Andy Burnham being blocked

Basit Mahmood
26 January, 2026

It’s resulted in a mixed reaction…

Andrew Gwynne and Andy Burnham
News

Fire Brigades Union says Andy Burnham must be able to run in by-election campaign

Olivia Barber
23 January, 2026

Starmer’s allies have launched a “Stop Andy Burnham” campaign to stop him from returning to Parliament

Andy Burnham
News

Ex-Labour minister ‘will step down as MP’ with Andy Burnham predicted to run in by-election

Basit Mahmood
22 January, 2026

Labour Party sources have also expressed concern about the implications of any contest for the Greater Manchester Mayorality, with costs expected to run into hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Keir Starmer at PMQs
News

PMQs: Keir Starmer humiliates Kemi Badenoch over Chagos deal attack

Olivia Barber
21 January, 2026

Badenoch’s attempt to use Trump’s criticism of the Chagos deal against the government backfired

Zack Polanski says Keir Starmer needs to "take his head out of the sand" over Trump and Greenland
News

Zack Polanski says Keir Starmer needs to ‘take his head out of the sand’ over Trump’s Greenland threats

Olivia Barber
20 January, 2026

Polanski has said that the UK needs to look at removing US military bases from British soil

Keir Starmer roasts the Tories and Reform UK over Nadhim Zahawi's defection
News

Keir Starmer brands Reform UK a ‘laundry service of disgraced Tories’

Olivia Barber
14 January, 2026

The prime minister mocked Reform and the Tories over Nadhim Zahawi’s defection

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