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Rafael Behr

Rafael Behr is political editor of the New Statesman

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UK Politics
19 June 2013

With no end to austerity in sight, both parties take comfort in the thought that their opponents will choke on victory.

Blogs
19 June 2013

Did it really take a choreographed Downing Street tea party to get an extra £1m for the Internet Watch Foundation?

UK Politics
19 June 2013

His early supporters thought the Labour leader had the courage and intellectual energy to remake British politics. So what happened to the optimism?

Blogs
17 June 2013

Stephen Twigg's speech was neither a capitulation to Gove’s agenda nor a ferocious reaction against it.

Blogs
13 June 2013

The Business Secretary's review of "zero-hours" contracts is hardly distinguishable from Labour policy.

Blogs
10 June 2013

The PM sees the EU as part of the solution, not the problem for the UK economy - a brave position to take as leader of today's Tory party.

Blogs
05 June 2013

The welfare line that Miliband is going to take owes a lot to the work that Liam Byrne has been doing.

UK Politics
05 June 2013

The PM doesn’t want to talk about the ills of lobbying any more than he wants to talk about shrinking Arctic glaciers, the “big society” or other things he once said were important.

UK Politics
30 May 2013

David Cameron and the struggle to be modern.

Blogs
30 May 2013

The idea of tabling an amendment to the Tory bill demanding a referendum before the next election is gaining currency in Labour ranks.

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