Andrew Lilico

What’s Rishi Sunak’s pitch?

22 October 2022 5:40 pm

Rishi Sunak has passed the 100 publicly-declared supporters which, it if is converted to nominations when Sunak officially declares, will…

What Liz Truss should do now

1 October 2022 5:00 pm

Markets are nervous and they are right to be. The government has announced a huge, open-ended package of energy subsidies…

Kwasi Kwarteng’s growth gamble is a risk worth taking

24 September 2022 6:30 pm

New Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s first ‘fiscal event’ was always going to be quite provocative and exciting. But in the end…

Vaccines disguised the errors of our lockdown policy

4 September 2022 4:00 pm

Liz Truss’s statement that she would never authorise another lockdown and The Spectator’s interview with Rishi Sunak have triggered a…

Politicians should let the market solve the energy crisis

24 August 2022 10:40 pm

What policies should the government adopt in response to the energy crisis? When thinking about any policy, the correct place…

There is no point nationalising the energy sector

13 August 2022 4:00 pm

Household energy bills are rising very rapidly, and are now expected to be over £4,000 per year by October and…

In defence of Liz Truss’s ‘fairytale economics’

23 July 2022 3:30 pm

One of the key dividing lines of the current Tory leadership contest concerns economic policy. The gap between the candidates…

The case for Liz Truss

12 July 2022 4:00 pm

The past six years have been a turbulent and controversial time in British politics. Through them all, one person consistently…

What the Tories should look for in their next leader

9 July 2022 4:30 pm

The Conservatives are selecting a new leader, who will become Prime Minister. What sort of a person should that be?…

How Boris Johnson squandered his premiership

6 July 2022 9:12 pm

Boris Johnson has been given so many second chances. He hasn’t taken any of them. Let’s start with his voting…

Boris will keep losing until he tackles inflation

25 June 2022 4:00 pm

The Tories took a serious beating in Thursday’s by-elections. Whilst Boris Johnson and his government refuse to take responsibility for the…

What Boris needs to do to survive

8 June 2022 4:51 pm

Most people date the beginning of Boris Johnson’s current woes to the start of the partygate scandal, and especially to…

Sunak, not Bailey, is to blame for inflation

18 May 2022 7:00 pm

Inflation has hit a 40-year high. The cost of household utilities rose by an average of £700 last month. We are…

In defence of Boris: would his replacement be any better?

14 January 2022 2:51 am

Keir Starmer, aided and abetted by Boris Johnson’s many internal enemies within the Conservative party, has managed to get into…

The tyranny of Boris Johnson’s mask mandate

28 November 2021 10:25 am

Today the government has said that for the next three weeks it will be mandatory to wear masks in shops…