Steve Richards
Established as one of the most influential political commentators in the country, Steve Richards became The Independent’s chief political commentator in 2000 having been political editor of the New Statesman. He presents GMTV's flagship current affairs show The Sunday Programme and Radio 4’s Week in Westminster.
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Steve Richards: The Prime Minster has made another speech about his Big Society. It won't be the last.
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Steve Richards: Brown's bid to run the IMF deserves a fair hearing
Monday, 23 May 2011
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Steve Richards: Anyone hear what Clarke really said on rape sentencing?
Thursday, 19 May 2011
The scale of Labour's response was misjudged and revealing about its future positioning in relation to crime
Steve Richards: The Lib Dems' troubles may also blight the Conservatives
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Suddenly Labour are not alone in questioning the claims of Cameron and Osborne to be progressive modernisers. Their Coalition partners are doing so too
Steve Richards: A privacy law may be the lesser evil
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Of course I want to know all about the stars and their affairs, but I do not see why I should have the right to know
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Tuesday, 10 May 2011
The NHS can't become a quango-administered free-for-all.
Steve Richards: It was in Clegg's moment of triumph that the seeds of disaster were sown
Saturday, 7 May 2011
The Lib Dems' dream of electoral reform, which seemed so close to realisation, becomes an elusive fantasy
Steve Richards: This referendum is a much bigger moment than it seems
Thursday, 5 May 2011
The consequences of the result will change politics in ways that make the last, extraordinary year seem like a calm oasis
Our republican conspiracy of silence
Thursday, 21 April 2011
Steve Richards: No public figure that governs or hopes to govern can go near the issue.
A general election may be sooner than you think
Thursday, 14 April 2011
Steve Richards: I am told that Ed Miliband has switched from being convinced of an inevitable long haul.
Steve Richards: Health reforms are the real faultline under the Coalition
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
One Lib Dem member tells me their opposition to the NHS changes is as important now as their stance against the war in Iraq
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