The Green Party leader’s boast of replacing Labour has become a cautionary tale By Megan Kenyon On a drizzly morning last September, Zack Polanski delivered his first speech as leader of the Green ...

An open letter to the government from leading authors, artists and public figures By New Statesman Sally Rooney is a writer, ...

The Sally Rooney affair shows how laws meant to target terrorism now suppress the freedom to dissent By Tanjil Rashid If you ever sought out the novels of Sally Rooney in bookshops – when that was ...

Could the Conservatives overtake Farage’s party? By Ben Walker This has been a bad month for Reform. The “Burnham bounce” has placed Labour firmly in the lead – although the most popular party in the ...

New polling shows a majority of the public want to rejoin By Ethan Croft The fullest plan yet for the UK to rejoin the European Union has been published in the wake of the Prime Minister’s call for a ...

Our short-sighted pursuit of cheap goods over national security has left us dangerously exposed By Ed Conway In March 1931 John Maynard Keynes wrote an article in this magazine, then the New Statesman ...

The Prime Minister’s course correction finally frees his MPs to address the disasters of Brexit By Ethan Croft Andy Burnham and his chief of staff James Purnell share rare history at Westminster. Both ...

Despite the fanfare about Burnham saving jury trials, the core of Starmer and Lammy’s proposals remain By Rachel Cunliffe Over the summer I spent a day at Highbury Magistrates’ Court, a looming ...

Exclusive polling reveals residents rejected the Greens in order “not to undermine the Labour government” By Morgan Jones The result of the Holborn and St Pancras by-election is roughly what was ...

His defeat in Holborn and St Pancras will be read by internal critics as a failure of leadership and strategy By Megan Kenyon Zack Polanski has lost the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. The leader ...

Sagal Abdi-Wali’s profile as the leader of the council could present difficulties for Labour By Megan Kenyon Fifty-three Agar Grove sits at the heart of the north London constituency of Holborn and St ...