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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andy Burnham is the new leader of the Labour party after the results of the party’s uncontested leadership election were announced on Friday (17 July) afternoon. In a speech to the party faithful at ...

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

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 ...

Nigel Farage is facing his biggest challenge since he became an MP two years ago after a string of revelations about his ...

Can we move past our decade of failure? By Tom McTague In his later life, travelling on the train home one day, the former Conservative Party leader Alec Douglas-Home was approached by an elderly lady ...

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 ...