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Hanover’s experts have spent recent months analysing how would-be successors to Keir Starmer might approach the key issues facing...

After a relatively quiet start to the year on the Labour leadership front, questions are again being asked about Keir Starmer’s grip...

It’s been a quiet start to the year for Labour leadership rumours. But Keir Starmer’s poll ratings are still in the doldrums and...

In the words of Yeats: “All is changed, changed utterly”…kind of. 2025 was a year of change in Irish politics for sure, but then...

Rachel Reeves was already facing one of the biggest challenges experienced by any Chancellor of the modern era in the run-up to what...

‘If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you;’ – Words written by English poet Rudyard...

Ireland elected a new President at the weekend. Independent candidate Catherine Connolly, who was backed by a coalition of left-wing...

Entering the final week of an election campaign is a bit like an athlete taking the bell in a big race – one last lap, leaving it all...

On the ground in Manchester last week, at first glance you’d be forgiven for thinking it was a bit of a ghost town.

‘A lot can happen in four weeks. Reputations can be enhanced or destroyed in that time. Voices can be lost or found. Momentum can...

Blue skies for Starmer in Liverpool but Budget storm clouds billow

So, now we know definitively that we have three candidates running to be the next President of Ireland – Catherine Connolly TD...