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: The real reasons why Blair went to war

To him, the domestic calculations pointed overwhelmingly in one direction

Recently by Steve Richards

Steve Richards: Bring on a hung parliament – and the drama that goes with it

Wednesday, 25 November 2009

Labour's 1997 landslide turned out tobeacurse on the Government

Steve Richards: Party leaders still fear the Holiday Test

Friday, 20 November 2009

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

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articulating as powerfully as any Labour minister since 1997 the case for Europe and the dangers of the Conservatives' outdated isolationism.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.