George Eaton
@georgeeaton.bsky.social
Senior Editor (Politics), New Statesman
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Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone – why Labour MPs are questioning his future again. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone
Why Labour MPs from all wings are questioning the Prime Minister’s future again.
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November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone – why Labour MPs are questioning his future again. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone
Why Labour MPs from all wings are questioning the Prime Minister’s future again.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Why Labour MPs from all wings are questioning the Prime Minister’s future again.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone
Why Labour MPs from all wings are questioning the Prime Minister’s future again.
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone
Why Labour MPs from all wings are questioning the Prime Minister’s future again.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Why Labour MPs from all wings are questioning the Prime Minister’s future again.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone – why Labour MPs are questioning his future again. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone
Why Labour MPs from all wings are questioning the Prime Minister’s future again.
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Keir Starmer has entered the danger zone – why Labour MPs are questioning his future again. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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Lovely interview with Anthony Barnett www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Anthony Barnett: “The Sixties were a catastrophic failure”
The writer and campaigner on nationalism, the rise of the new right and how a fractured left can organise in response
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November 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Lovely interview with Anthony Barnett www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Labour’s Budget wars escalate – on Lucy Powell’s intervention and the backlash it has prompted.
One minister accuses her of “cakeism”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
One minister accuses her of “cakeism”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Labour’s Budget wars escalate
Lucy Powell’s intervention is a sign of intensifying divisions over tax and the two-child benefit cap
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November 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Labour’s Budget wars escalate – on Lucy Powell’s intervention and the backlash it has prompted.
One minister accuses her of “cakeism”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
One minister accuses her of “cakeism”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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Lucy Powell’s intervention is a sign of trouble ahead on tax and the two-child benefit cap
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Labour’s Budget wars escalate
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Labour’s Budget wars escalate
Labour’s Budget wars escalate
Lucy Powell’s intervention is a sign of divisions to come over tax and the two-child benefit cap.
www.newstatesman.com
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Lucy Powell’s intervention is a sign of trouble ahead on tax and the two-child benefit cap
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Labour’s Budget wars escalate
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social: Labour’s Budget wars escalate
Labour’s Budget wars escalate – on Lucy Powell’s intervention and the backlash it has prompted.
One minister accuses her of “cakeism”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
One minister accuses her of “cakeism”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Labour’s Budget wars escalate
Lucy Powell’s intervention is a sign of intensifying divisions over tax and the two-child benefit cap
www.newstatesman.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Labour’s Budget wars escalate – on Lucy Powell’s intervention and the backlash it has prompted.
One minister accuses her of “cakeism”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
One minister accuses her of “cakeism”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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Reform’s return to Thatcherism – how the party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Reform’s return to Thatcherism
The party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading
www.newstatesman.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Reform’s return to Thatcherism – how the party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Reform’s return to Thatcherism. The party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Reform’s return to Thatcherism
The party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading
www.newstatesman.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Reform’s return to Thatcherism. The party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading.
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Reform’s return to Thatcherism – how the party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Reform’s return to Thatcherism
The party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading
www.newstatesman.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Reform’s return to Thatcherism – how the party’s flirtation with statist economics is fading. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
New York saw the biggest swing *towards Trump* of any state at the last election.
This Mamdani video with Trump voters from a year ago is a model of political engagement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
This Mamdani video with Trump voters from a year ago is a model of political engagement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
Why did so many New Yorkers vote for Donald Trump?
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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November 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
New York saw the biggest swing *towards Trump* of any state at the last election.
This Mamdani video with Trump voters from a year ago is a model of political engagement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
This Mamdani video with Trump voters from a year ago is a model of political engagement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7Fc...
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Rachel Reeves’s defining judgement is that voters will accept higher taxes as the price of better public services. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Rachel Reeves’s great gamble
Can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises?
www.newstatesman.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Rachel Reeves’s defining judgement is that voters will accept higher taxes as the price of better public services. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Notable in today's YouGov that the centre/left bloc - Lab/Green/LD/SNP are on 54%. With Reform/Tories on 43%. That's the biggest differential in a long time.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
I think useful to track blocs given instability between parties at the moment.
Rachel Reeves’s defining judgement is that voters will accept higher taxes as the price of better public services. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Rachel Reeves’s great gamble
Can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises?
www.newstatesman.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Rachel Reeves’s defining judgement is that voters will accept higher taxes as the price of better public services. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Rachel Reeves’ great gamble: can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Rachel Reeves’s great gamble
Can the Chancellor avoid paying a penalty for tax rises?
www.newstatesman.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Rachel Reeves’ great gamble: can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Expect Reeves’s speech to reignite debate over Labour’s original tax pledge.
One former No 10 aide describes it as the party’s “original sin”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
One former No 10 aide describes it as the party’s “original sin”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Rachel Reeves’s great gamble
Can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises?
www.newstatesman.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Expect Reeves’s speech to reignite debate over Labour’s original tax pledge.
One former No 10 aide describes it as the party’s “original sin”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
One former No 10 aide describes it as the party’s “original sin”. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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Rachel Reeves’s great gamble. Can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises?
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Rachel Reeves’s great gamble
Can the Chancellor avoid paying a penalty for tax rises?
www.newstatesman.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Rachel Reeves’s great gamble. Can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises?
🖊️ @georgeeaton.bsky.social
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Rachel Reeves’ great gamble: can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Rachel Reeves’s great gamble
Can the Chancellor avoid paying a penalty for tax rises?
www.newstatesman.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Rachel Reeves’ great gamble: can the Chancellor avoid paying the price for tax rises? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Asked if Labour MPs’ opposition to welfare cuts is the problem, Reeves says “It’s unfair to blame the Parliamentary Labour Party for the OBR’s supply-side review.”
A warmer answer than you would have got after the welfare revolt.
A warmer answer than you would have got after the welfare revolt.
November 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Asked if Labour MPs’ opposition to welfare cuts is the problem, Reeves says “It’s unfair to blame the Parliamentary Labour Party for the OBR’s supply-side review.”
A warmer answer than you would have got after the welfare revolt.
A warmer answer than you would have got after the welfare revolt.
Clearest hint from Reeves that broad-based tax rises are on the way: “All have to contribute to that effort. Each must do our bit.”
November 4, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Clearest hint from Reeves that broad-based tax rises are on the way: “All have to contribute to that effort. Each must do our bit.”
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Britain’s fiscal reality check – why the Budget marks the start of an overdue reckoning. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Britain’s fiscal reality check
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is the start of a new reckoning
www.newstatesman.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Britain’s fiscal reality check – why the Budget marks the start of an overdue reckoning. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
This from Policy Exchange is a good example of the spending cuts Reform and the Tories would need to back to match their rhetoric. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
November 3, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This from Policy Exchange is a good example of the spending cuts Reform and the Tories would need to back to match their rhetoric. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
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Britain’s fiscal reality check
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is the start of a new reckoning
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is the start of a new reckoning
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Britain’s fiscal reality check
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is the start of a new reckoning
www.newstatesman.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Britain’s fiscal reality check
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is the start of a new reckoning
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is the start of a new reckoning
📫 Today’s Morning Call, with @georgeeaton.bsky.social
Britain’s fiscal reality check – why the Budget marks the start of an overdue reckoning. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...
Britain’s fiscal reality check
Rachel Reeves’s Budget is the start of a new reckoning
www.newstatesman.com
November 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Britain’s fiscal reality check – why the Budget marks the start of an overdue reckoning. www.newstatesman.com/politics/mor...