Tag: Labour pledges

A Victorian workshop scene with machinist’s tools on a worn bench, an empty ceremonial chair bearing a knight’s sash, and a faded Labour banner reading “The Moral Case For Socialism” on the wall behind.

Sons of Toil, Part I: The Toolmaker’s Bequest

Keir Rodney Starmer came into the world named after the great Scottish agitator who opposed a popular war and was expelled from Parliament for it. The naming was the most radical act the Starmer family would perform for the next six decades. After that, everything moved in precisely the opposite direction.