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The legacy of the collapse of Stalinism

BBC News By Nicholas Watt media captionJohn McDonnell: "Keir cannot look like a Blairite tribute band." Sir Keir Starmer must avoid leading Labour like a "Blairite tribute band", former shadow chancellor John McDonnell has warned. He told BBC Two's Newsnight the party should become more radical following setbacks in recent elections. Mr McDonnell, an ally of former leader Jeremy Corbyn, also argued there was "disillusionment" with Labour, "particularly among younger people". But a Labour party spokesperson said that the party under Sir Keir was looking to the future, "not rerunning old argume...

11 May 2021 • 12:53am Jeremy Corbyn, then Labour leader, and Sir Keir Starmer, then shadow Secretary of State for Departing the European Union, after a meeting in 2019 with EU negotiators  Credit: Reuters /FRANCOIS LENOIR  SIR – Labour has lost its raison d’être. This was to advance the interests of a social stratum called Labour, which was disadvantaged socially and economically with respect to the rest of society. It was coupled with a dogma, derived from the 19th-century origins of socialism, that the economic interests of Labour were somehow different from the “capitalist clas...

Hartlepool was more than a horror for the Labour Party. More than a humiliation. It was a colossal, life-threatening defeat such as engulfed and eventually destroyed the Liberal Party 100 years ago. Not a routine defeat for a government in a by-election but a complete crushing by a Government which the Labour Party had attempted to pillory for sleaze for months because it had nothing else to offer. A party under a shiny, new forensically intelligent leader who was going to be a herald of change. Or so we thought. Well, that’s not how voters up and down the country, north and south, east and...

This interview was suggested by the interviewee, Sadiq Khan. Not because he wanted to promote his campaign for re-election as London mayor. We barely discussed it. He wanted to talk about mental health; his, mine and everyone else’s. Fear not, we also talk Trump, Brexit, Sir Keir Starmer and whether Labour can win the next election. But mental health and men was the reason he wanted to reach out to GQ. He had seen my BBC documentary on depression, in which I spoke of how I use a jam jar to manage my mental health, and got in touch after reading my book,