Paul Richards Articles

The birth of New Labour was an electrifying ride into the future, recalls Paul Richards Before Iraq, before the ludicrous calls for impeachment and citizens’ arrests, before the avalanche of hate, there once was a leader of the Labour party who did a most incredible...

Congratulations on your appointment as foreign secretary. You join Ernest Bevin, Herbert Morrison, James Callaghan, Tony Crosland, Robin Cook, Jack Straw and David Miliband in the pantheon. As you mount the Grand Staircase, and stroll around the Locarno Suite and...

This morning, Ed Miliband will welcome and endorse the IPPR’s Condition of Britain report, which forms the backcloth to Labour’s manifesto. The theme of his speech – big reforms not big spending – speaks to the dilemma Labour has faced since the crash: how to appear...

It took me several days to find the right word to describe An Unexpected MP by Jerry Hayes. This book is vile. We are defining ‘vile’ here, along with the online dictionary, as ‘foul, nasty, unpleasant, bad, disagreeable, horrid, horrible, dreadful, abominable,...