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Steve Richards

Steve Richards

Established as one of the most influential political commentators in the country, Steve Richards became The Independent’s chief political commentator in 2000 having been political editor of the New Statesman. He presents GMTV's flagship current affairs show The Sunday Programme and Radio 4’s Week in Westminster.

Steve Richards: Party leaders still fear the Holiday Test

Blair took his family to Australia in the winter of 1996. Revealingly, no one raised a murmur

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A Queen's Speech too far? Not if Labour turns radical

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Steve Richards: Today’s package shows that Labour can still make a positive difference.

Size should not be everything in Cameron's vision of a modern state

Friday, 13 November 2009

Steve Richards: I have no doubt that he is genuinely interested in redistributing power.

Steve Richards: Medicine with a deadly aftertaste

Tuesday, 3 November 2009

MPs are loathed, while those wielding power without responsibility are revered

Steve Richards: Blair is the only man for this job

Friday, 30 October 2009

As PM he never tired of Europe even if his pragmatism led him towards Washington

Steve Richards: Europe is a tempting opportunity

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

David Miliband has come to life. During his speech to Labour's conference last month he made a bold defence of the European Union and launched an uncharacteristically passionate onslaught against the Conservatives and their new allies in Europe. Yesterday he became even more vivacious on both fronts, articulating as powerfully as any Labour minister since 1997 the case for Europe and the dangers of the Conservatives' outdated isolationism. Occasionally Tony Blair delivered similar speeches, but only when he was out of Britain. On Europe Miliband is fired up and has decided to make the argument at home.

Steve Richards: Who will be toughest on the banks?

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Behind Osborne's speech was a tentative ambivalence shared by the Government

'An opportunity has arisen from nowhere for the BNP leader to perform'

BNP are grateful for this gift

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Steve Richards: The only potential beneficiary of the relentless attacks on democratic politics as a vocation is a party that loathes democracy.

Steve Richards: A fine example of how not to govern

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

The spat between Balls and Sheerman shows the danger of these half-hearted reforms

Steve Richards: The contradictions of Tory localism

Friday, 16 October 2009

Osborne wants to cap local government pay whilst saying he wants to give power away

Steve Richards: The panel format may allow Griffin to thrive

Wednesday, 14 October 2009

The BBC is right to give airtime to Nick Griffin, but wrong to offer him a place on the panel of Question Time, a format which will almost certainly fail to expose or closely scrutinise the foolishly dangerous views he holds.

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