Simon Fitzpatrick: Labour has found new hope. But can it last?

My first column of 2026 was headlined ‘It’s a grim year ahead for Labour’, and for the first half of the year that proved correct, with Keir Starmer’s leadership unravelling amid a succession of bad news stories and electoral defeats. However, after spending three days
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