Aditya Chakrabortty

Aditya Chakrabortty is a Guardian columnist and the Guardian's senior economics commentator

• Tony Blair and Keir Starmer

  Zombie Blairites still have British politics in their grip – it’s time to break free

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  Tony Blair’s departure as PM should have prompted a fresh start for Labour. But Starmer’s sad, backward-looking government remains in his thrall, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

• Thomas Pullin illustration of Westminster sinking

  As Westminster rages, and Labour sinks into civil war: what about the people?

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• Episodic artwork featuring (L-R) Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow health secretary Wes Streeting

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  Why does everyone hate Keir Starmer? – Full Story podcast

• The Labour Leadership Launch Six Election Pledges To The ElectoratePURFLEET, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 16: (L-R) Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, Deputy leader, Angela Rayner, and Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, attend an event to launch Labour's election pledges at The Backstage Centre on May 16, 2024 in Purfleet, United Kingdom. Labour Leader Keir Starmer pledges to deliver economic stability, cut NHS waiting times, launch a new Border Security Command, set up Great British Energy and recruit 6,500 new teachers if Labour win the next General Election. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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  Why does everyone hate Keir Starmer? – podcast

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  As Labour heads for a wipeout, a lesson: never fall for the ‘adults in the room’ line again

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• Illustration:Sébastien Thibault

  Labour is facing wipeout in its final stronghold. Why? It’s housing, housing, housing

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  In the 1980s, Labour-controlled London built 52,000 council homes. During the Tony Blair decade, just 280. It’s brought this local-election catastrophe on itself, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
• Collage of two hands shaking to represent an agreement. The left hand is more dominant with the sleeve depicting the US flag, the right is weaker with it's sleeve depicting the UK flag slightly fragmented.

  Ten years after Brexit, this is the UK: a divided nation frozen in time

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  Tribalism has not faded over the past decade. Instead, new research reveals our politics has become ever-more polarised and fractious, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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  A third inflationary shock in less than a decade is coming: who will pay the price this time around?

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  Brutal past experience has taught us that a cost of living crisis doesn’t affect us all the same, because we don’t all go into it with the same income or wealth, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

• Illustration showing a heart beat monitor graph that is in a sharp decline with figures of people falling off the slope

  This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet?

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  The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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  Behold the incredible shrinking Starmer: the PM who promises more while giving less

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• After a day of turmoil Labour MPs and cabinet members seem to be rallying around the prime minister. So can Starmer really bounce back from this latest blow to his leadership? Lucy Hough speaks to columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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  Is Starmer out of the woods after Labour showdown? - The Latest

• Lord Peter Mandelson Epstein files scandalPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a community centre in Hertfordshire. Picture date: Tuesday February 10, 2026. PA Photo. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's entire Cabinet has come out in a co-ordinated show of support for the embattled Prime Minister after Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called on him to stand down amid the fallout over the Peter Mandelson scandal. Photo credit should read: Suzanne Plunkett/PA Wire

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  Is Starmer out of the woods? – The Latest

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  The Green surge shows UK politics has reached a turning point – and it has surprisingly little to do with Zack Polanski

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• Illustration by Ben Jennings

  The Minneapolis revolt tells us this: even in Trump’s America, the people have power too

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  What happens when the taps run dry? England is about to find out

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• Illustration: Bill Bragg

  Say what you will about Trump, but unlike Starmer he knows his own power – and how to use it

  Aditya Chakrabortty
• Sébastien Thibault

  Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos

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• Illustration: Bill Bragg

  Want to understand the sickness of Britain today? Look no further – a novel explained it all 20 years ago

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  The racism, the predatory politics, the banality and cruelty: we struggle to make sense of it, but JG Ballard foretold everything we are living through now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
• Illustration: Sébastien Thibault

  What will be the cost of Keir Starmer’s new medicines deal with Donald Trump? British lives

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  More than 3ドルbn that could have been used for UK patients will go to big pharma for its branded products, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
• Rachel Reeves holds up the traditional red ministerial box before delivering the budget on 26 November 2025.

  The most misleading thing about Rachel Reeves’s budget? Who it was really for

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  Labour backbenchers have been cheering it as a win for the most vulnerable in society. In fact it was aimed at the bond markets, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty