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Everything we know about Keir Starmer tells us he is deeply, almost instinctively, opposed to taking political risks. The Labour leader, the narrative runs, offers few commitments, projects but a small target and relies for his political victories on the prime minister of the day getting bogged down in some self-inflicted crisis. Sometimes Starmer will… Read more »
The phrase “levelling up” entered the British lexicon during the political fit of pique of the 2019 general election. It was a political pledge created by and for former prime minister Boris Johnson as he seized on the ferment stoked by the Brexit campaign. Of course, the commitment to tackling regional disparity helped Johnson’s government… Read more »