But the shift has more to do with how parties behave than any changes in the class system.
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Starmer could have framed the same policies around a softer rhetoric, one that embraces multicultural Britain while making the case for reforming the labour market.
Was John Prescott the last politician who could thump a member of the public and get away with it? No way.
He’s remembered for multiple controversies but Prescott’s legacy is really more about his work on the climate and devolution.
Nursery education in the UK has gone from state-funded service to lucrative private enterprise.
Even though Keir Starmer is more comfortable being associated with the leaders of the last Labour government than Jeremy Corbyn or Ed Miliband, this is not a return to the past.
The government in England is promoting apprenticeships rather than “rip-off” university degrees.
If some progress was made in the early 2000s, austerity measures from 2010 saw the push for equality, diversity or inclusion die down.
Freshly re-elected in April, France’s president lost his parliamentary majority in June. So who is Emmanuel Macron and what defines his paradoxical politics?
The types of people who gathered daily to watch Neighbours are the same who backed Tony Blair in 1997.
As Joe Biden runs for US president, the strange tale of how he helped shape the UK Labour party.
The South African Communist Party’s decision to compete in an election against its alliance partner the ANC is a watershed moment for them, with important implications for the country.
The Conservative PM is often seen as a failure, but the odds were stacked against him from the start.
Things could only get better. Or could they?
The unique parliamentarian who coined the West Lothian question.
Jeremy Corbyn’s supporters are holding a parallel event to the official Labour summit. Can these protestors ever come in from the fringe?
It’s unfair to call Lord Adonis a political ‘Judas’. He’s a policy specialist who has always aimed for the centre ground.
Corbyn appears to see public relations as the pioneers of the profession in the UK saw it, as an add-on to civic society.
Elected in the party’s biggest ever wipeout, Labour’s 1983 intake of MPs could be about to notch up its third party leader.
A run down of what each has to say on the top issue of the summer.
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