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articulating as powerfully as any Labour minister since 1997 the case for Europe and the dangers of the Conservatives' outdated isolationism.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