Margaret on Starmer, the Democratic Socialist Economics Joke, and Why the Labour Party Is the Best Unwilling Comedy Act in British Politics June 2026 — Margaret Colley, politicanuk Another Labour prime minister has departed Downing Street with the specific expression of a person who has been through something difficult and…

Margaret Colley on the parliamentary discipline of a party that treats abstention as a position Wednesday. The Vote. The Aftermath. I have been covering Labour’s parliamentary behaviour long enough to have developed a taxonomy of the ways in which Labour MPs oppose their own government without formally opposing their own…

Margaret Colley on climate commitments, policy delivery, and the gap between target and trajectory Friday. Policy Documents. Coffee. The gap between a climate target and a delivery trajectory is the most important number in energy policy that almost nobody quotes when discussing energy policy, because the target is the number…

Margaret Colley on what the May results actually mean and why the media frame is always slightly wrong Post-Election. Results Digested. Local council elections are covered by national political journalism as national political barometers, which they are, imperfectly and with significant noise. The local results reflect local conditions — the…