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Forget the three-term project now: crisis-hit Labour needs a one-term mindset and priorities to match

History shows there have been more short-lived Labour governments than long-lasting ones. The party must secure a clear, progressive legacy, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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As dark financial clouds gather, Labour has to heed its past: when it chooses austerity, it loses elections

Those who insist on spending cuts are those who are never hurt by them. Time to be brave – and take a new tack, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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Friday essay: ‘War has made me a pacifist’. Why are we so reluctant to acknowledge Australia’s anti-war veterans?

“I have seen enough of the horrors of war, and want peace. War has made me a socialist and a pacifist,” announced Gallipoli veteran and Victoria Cross winner, Hugo Throssell, on Peace Day in 1919.

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London's oldest and cheapest spa reopens in world famous East End boxing venue

Reopening the venue on Thursday, the borough’s executive mayor Lutfur Rahman called in the ‘People's Spa’

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In cancelling his family summer holiday, Keir Starmer has made his first serious mistake

The days when Harold Macmillan could disappear to the grouse moors for the summer are gone – but even prime ministers need a break, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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100 Years Ago in Parliament: Row over cyclists, trams and police powers in London Traffic Bill

August 1, 1924 - MPs debate traffic congestion in London (sounds familiar) with Tories clashing with Ramsay MacDonald’s Labour government

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From Baldwin to Blair and more: the biggest landslides in British election history

With Labour predicted to win by a historic margin, here are some of the most dramatic victories of previous times

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Margaret Beckett and her party’s most working-class leader ever

Letters: Robert Lizar, Alasdair Macdonald, Roger Humphries and William Bradshaw respond to an interview with the former foreign secretary, who is stepping down at the election

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The Labour party’s complicated relationship with God

Letters: Andrew Copson of Humanists UK, Zaki Cooper, David Tutssel and David Cragg-James respond to an editorial about the party and faith communities

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Let’s rekindle the spirit of 1924: lifelong learning for all

Letters: John Holford reflects on the funding for adult education enabled by the first Labour government a century ago, and hopes for something similar today. Plus letters from Ian Barge, Jennifer Basannavar and Jenny Braithwaite

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The Men of 1924 by Peter Clark; The Wild Men by David Torrance review – Labour’s first taste of power

One hundred years since Ramsay MacDonald led his cabinet of workers into Number 10, two engrossing books illuminate the party’s extraordinary leading players and their achievement, largely unheralded, in making the country more civilised

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Ramsay MacDonald forms Britain’s first Labour government – archive, 1924

22 January 1924: MacDonald was asked by George V to form a government when Stanley Baldwin’s small Conservative majority proved ungovernable

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The Wild Men by David Torrance review – inside Labour’s first cabinet

An engrossing account of the perilous course charted by Ramsay MacDonald, Britain’s first Labour prime minister

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Valuable lessons from the first Labour governments

Letters: Dr Lynda Mountford, Kate Purcell, Carol Wilcox and Matthew Ryder on the legacy of Ramsay MacDonald

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Keir Starmer ‘lacks clear sense of purpose’ claims Labour ex-policy chief

Party historian MP Jon Cruddas questions readiness for power of leader with few ties to movement’s roots or ideology

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How should Keir Starmer take on 2024? By looking back a century to Labour’s first government

Ramsay MacDonald’s short-lived victory holds three key lessons, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

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How the Christmas royal broadcast evolved – from the first reluctant monarch to an enduring queen and a new king

On Christmas Day, many in the UK will pause their festivities at 3pm to watch King Charles give his Christmas message – his second since his mother, Queen Elizabeth, died in September 2022.

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Gerry Hassan: What Labour in power will mean for the United Kingdom

AS the Tory government grows nastier and more punitive by the day, they become more divided, desperate and prepared to do anything to maintain power.

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David Cameron: lessons from other ex-prime ministers who returned to government

Rishi Sunak’s decision to appoint former prime minister David (now Lord) Cameron as his foreign secretary has surprised and divided opinion, not least since Cameron left politics in 2016. It is not, however, without precedent for former prime ministers former to return to government.

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OPINION - The strange rebirth of Scottish Labour

To understand the Labour Party, you first have to understand the importance of Scottish Labour. From Keir Hardie to John Smith, Ramsay MacDonald to Gordon Brown, Scotland runs to the very core of the labour movement. For goodness sake, even Tony Blair was born in Edinburgh.

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Richard Leonard shades Keir Starmer with message for Labour to 'lead its leaders'

A NEW video has been released about a radical socialist MP who denounced the leader of the Labour Party for his rejection of socialism and…

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Churchill, Gladstone, Johnson? The prime ministers who made comebacks after leaving Downing Street

Winston Churchill returned to No 10 in 1951 after a period in opposition

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Why was Labour’s first PM later branded a traitor to cause?

RAMSAY MacDonald was the UK’s first Labour prime minister yet he remains an oddly obscure figure in the party’s political history. He served…

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The enigma of Elizabeth II

Over her long reign, the Queen has shaped and reflected the world we live in while remaining mysterious and unknowable. Like it or not, she has been the silver thread that runs through Britain’s collective story

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