Luke McGee

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Luke McGee

It’s not yet been a year since Keir Starmer’s historic landslide win, but Labour MPs are already worried about losing power. The disastrous May 1 election results, which saw Reform UK surge in Brexit-supporting areas and Labour lose two-thirds of the council seats it was defending as well as the Runcorn & Helsby parliamentary seat, have freaked out some of Starmer’s backbenchers – and some Cabinet ministers.

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Luke McGee |William Stewart

As the British Government awaits the findings of its Strategic Defence Review, industry insiders, government officials and experts say that one thing is certain: a huge amount of British money is set to be spent in Ukraine. Naturally, the UK’s commitment of support to Ukraine through the Coalition of the Willing was expected to mean British taxpayer money would continue flowing to Kyiv. But what is expected next goes much further.

1 week ago | lukemcgee.substack.com | Luke McGee

First things first: there’s no doubt that this week has been a huge success for Nigel Farage. If you are old enough, it all feels a bit like that 2013-2014 period when UKIP performed well in local elections then absolutely battered David Cameron at the European elections. At the time I was working on the Telegraph’s opinion pages. It was very obvious to us that Farage had changed the political conversation, at least on the right.

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Luke McGee

Military NATO Ukraine U.S. President Donald Trump once said he could end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, something that he now claims was always a joke. More than 100 days into Trump’s second term, Vladimir Putin is behaving as barbarically as ever, if the deadly attacks on Kyiv last week are anything to go by.

3 weeks ago | lukemcgee.substack.com | Luke McGee

It might seem ridiculous to say of a man who won the last election by out-boring Rishi Sunak, the dullest PM of his generation. But Keir Starmer could well be an agent of chaos in disguise. We know that he is ruthless in his pursuit of power. His left-liberal critics have been dismayed as he’s morphed from an electable Corbyn to the kind of man who dangles a holiday WITH THE ACTUAL KING in front of Donald Trump to get a marginally preferable deal on tariffs. Cynical, sure.