Labour's lobbying problem

"I’d be shocked if there isn’t a lobbying scandal in the first year"

Keir Starmer and Keir Starmer at Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, July 2023.

During the general election campaign, Keir Starmer positioned Labour as the alternative to years of Tory sleaze.

Starmer was right: the Conservatives’ presided over unprecedented levels of corruption and cronyism in British politics. We are all still recovering.

But Starmer…