Andrew Adonis is a Labour peer, and formerly transport minister, education minister and head of No 10 policy unit under Tony Blair.
April 2025
Credit where it’s due to Labour on academy schools
Letters: Bob Hudson highlights the education secretary’s proposals to curb academy freedoms. Plus a letter from Wendy Musson
July 2024
The Audio Long Read
How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster – podcast
Podcast29:22
The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
How the Tories pushed universities to the brink of disaster
February 2022
Why the panic among Boris Johnson’s allies? Because they know Brexit is unravelling
Michael Heseltine
There is an air of desperation in attacks from those on the right and their supporters in the press, says the former deputy prime minister Michael Heseltine
May 2021
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Leanne Wood loses Rhondda; Sturgeon says SNP majority was ‘very long shot’ – as it happened
Reactions and all the latest results after Thursday’s elections in Scotland, England and Wales
August 2019
The long read
‘Loud, obsessive, tribal’: the radicalisation of remain
National Grid urged to explain response to rush-hour blackouts
May 2019
Labour members should vote now on our support for a second Brexit referendum
Andrew Adonis
‘I am not confused’: remainer Adonis tries to win over Labour doubters
April 2019
The Observer view on the Labour manifesto: get off the fence, Mr Corbyn
The democratic case for a people’s vote on any Brexit deal is as strong as ever
UK parties unveil eye-catching European election candidates
These six all want to be your MEP – despite some of them believing the job should not exist
Forget Andrew Adonis’s U-turn on Brexit. It’s Labour that should really make one
Mike Galsworthy
Adonis apologises for telling Brexiters not to vote Labour in EU elections
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Liam Fox accused of legitimising climate change denial - live news
January 2019
Oxford and Cambridge reject Adonis proposal for 'access' colleges
Senior figures fear creating colleges with remit to improve access could lead to accusations of ‘ghettoisation’
November 2018
Financial Times calls Andrew Adonis's Brexit bias claims 'nonsense'
Labour peer has accused the newspaper of backing Brexit deal to please its owners
August 2018
Labour 'finished' if it backs Brexit in a snap election, says Adonis
Poll suggests party would fare much better by opposing UK’s departure from EU
July 2018
Why Tony Benn would have changed his mind on the European Union
Letters: Ian Bretman says the only alternative to the common regulations of the EU is a ‘race to the bottom’. Martyn Thomas says the future belongs to major powers. David Hughes says a people’s vote should be under AV with a range of options
June 2018
Chris Grayling to blame for rail chaos, says Lord Adonis
Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
Theresa May brushes aside Boris Johnson's criticism of her Brexit policy – as it happened
