Ross Clark

One of the many complaints levied against Keir Starmer is that he is fundamentally bad at politics; he doesn’t know how to win people over, keep voters on his side. But on current showing he is a darned sight better at the game than is Andy Burnham. Whatever possessed the leadership hopeful at the weekend

That, at any rate, is what the government will want us to believe when the latest net migration figures are published this week.

Where the Tories failed on controlling Britain's borders, letting net migration surge to an unprecedented 944,000 in the year to March 2023, Labour has succeeded.

WASN’T Keir Starmer supposed to be the human rights lawyer who was going to inject a bit more morality into UK foreign affairs? He certainly wanted us to think that when he tried needlessly surrend…

Andy Burnham has been described as Labour’s ‘king over the water’ who could save us from the turgid decline of Starmer’s premiership, but there is another candidate for that position, and a more convincing one at that. On the website of his eponymous institute, Tony Blair has published a long essay which reminds us of

Burnham asserts that Britain has been on the wrong, neoliberal path for the past 40 years.

Andy Burnham thinks Tony Blair is missing something, and he is being too polite to say it is a few screws.

OPINION - ROSS CLARK: Miliband's mad obsession has no legs - unfortunately for us, he's there to prop it up.

OPINION - ROSS CLARK: Miliband's mad obsession has no legs - unfortunately for us, he's there to prop it up.

The Mandelson files have produced a truly damning revelation about Keir Starmer’s government. But it is one which will be of little interest to many people because it doesn’t reflect badly on Lord Mandelson. On the contrary, it shows why we would be...