Andy Burnham has promised to “change politics” with a new political and economic model for Britain. In his first Downing ...

Tom McTague is the Editor in Chief of the New Statesman and author of Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution. Before journalism he worked in the village chip shop and ...

Maurice Glasman is professor of politics at St Mary’s University, London, and director of the Common Good Foundation. On a journey through Ukraine, the Labour peer identifies the ancient tracks ...

Ben Walker is a senior data journalist at the New Statesman and the co-founder of Britain Elects. He needed to be asked twice to write this bio. ben.walker@newstatesman.co.uk More than 5,000 seats are ...

Ethan Croft is a New Statesman political correspondent. One of Keir Starmer’s former allies has turned on him and resigned from parliament There is now a serious effort to remove the Prime Minister ...

Over the course of Andy Burnham’s 25 years in politics the man who is about to become prime minister has said little about foreign policy. Foreign leaders and diplomats tapping up contacts for ...

The murder of Ann Widdecombe has one lesson: both left and right need to detoxify our public discourse ...

Zack Polanski’s party will take aim at her immigration reforms should she be appointed chancellor By Megan Kenyon The Green Party plans to accuse Shabana Mahmood of “fiscal constraint and economic ...

With Marine Le Pen now free to run in next year’s election, France is entering uncharted political territory By Julian ...

With mobs waging xenophobic violence on the streets, the promise of the anti-apartheid struggle has dissolved By Benjamin Fogel Today (18 July), South Africans are urged to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s ...

The appointee, Graeme Cooke, is seen as an intellectual ally of James Purnell By Ailbhe Rea Andy Burnham has appointed Graeme Cooke, a close ally of his chief of staff James Purnell, as director of ...

After Exeter’s announcement that it will cut 150 academic jobs, is there any hope for higher education? By Ella Dorn The sleepy city of Exeter has become the locus of the country’s fraught battle over ...