We don’t need targets to know the NHS is failing
How has the NHS missed most of its key targets for the past seven years? Some parts of the UK-wide…
Are the Tories cooling on their support for Israel?
The language in the government and parliament over Israel has changed a lot this week. Ministers are no longer mounting…
Starmer chooses not to probe Sunak on Post Office
Keir Starmer clearly judged that while the Post Office scandal is the hot topic today, voters will be thinking about…
Sunak to ‘swiftly’ exonerate Post Office scandal victims
Rishi Sunak used the start of Prime Minister’s Questions today to announce that the government will be introducing legislation to…
The Post Office scandal was too boring for politicians to fix
The government is now ‘under pressure’ over the Post Office Horizon IT scandal. The pressure comes in the form of…
Sunak plays it safe with election announcement
Rishi Sunak is – not unusually – playing it safe by saying his ‘working assumption’ is that the election will…
Sunak gets tetchy during Rwanda and Israel grilling
If Rishi Sunak still doesn’t recognise the description of himself as ‘tetchy’, then he could do worse than to watch…
Sunak’s strange Covid Inquiry appearance
Rishi Sunak had a strange pandemic. He spent a lot of it in government meetings, the details of which he…
Was Sunak oblivious to No. 10’s Covid dysfunction?
Rishi Sunak has already provided a statement of evidence to the Covid Inquiry, but this morning’s hearing spent more time…
Boris defends partygate yet again
What does Boris Johnson want to come out of the Covid Inquiry? At the end of his second day of…
Robert Jenrick resigns as immigration minister
In the past few minutes, James Cleverly has confirmed that Robert Jenrick has resigned as immigration minister. He was asked…
Boris argues that Covid mistakes were inevitable. Is he right?
Boris Johnson had clearly come to the Covid Inquiry intending to be magnanimous about everyone, even advisers like Dominic Cummings…
Cleverly’s battle to send flights to Rwanda is not over yet
James Cleverly has just signed a new treaty with Rwanda that the UK government hopes will lead to the deportation…
Sunak loses Commons vote for first time as PM
The government has just been defeated in the Commons for the first time since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister. It…
Starmer has no vision. Is that a bad thing?
Keir Starmer seems to be most comfortable when he’s pointing out how badly the Tories are doing, rather than when…
Do the Tories have a migration plan?
What is the Tory party’s policy on immigration after record-breaking net migration figures and the failure of its Rwanda policy…
Hunt’s Autumn Statement was surprisingly upbeat
Jeremy Hunt has just finished the most upbeat economic statement we’ve heard in a good while – certainly since the…
Will the Tories’ ‘carrot and stick’ benefits plan work?
Rishi Sunak wants to frame a benefits crackdown in tomorrow’s Autumn Statement in compassionate terms, with ministers saying people with…
Tory MPs want a sense of vision from the PM
The Autumn Statement marks the latest in Rishi Sunak’s series of (often contradictory) relaunches Jeremy Hunt has started the week…
Suella Braverman’s clumsiness makes Met reform less likely
Suella Braverman’s career as Home Secretary may be over very soon. But a long tail of it will be the…
Sunak has no easy options in the Suella Braverman row
Tory whips are doing a ring around of their MPs to find out what they think of the row over…
Is Suella Braverman trying to get sacked?
Tory MPs are in an even more fractious mood than usual following Suella Braverman’s article in the Times. No. 10…
Is Sunak right to say the Palestine march is ‘disrespectful’?
What does Rishi Sunak mean when he says Saturday’s pro-Palestine march in London is ‘disrespectful’? The Prime Minister was responding…
All Sunak wants to do is attack Labour
Rishi Sunak wants voters to see the Conservatives as taking difficult, ambitious choices, including on net zero and transport. He…
The King’s Speech was all about the next election
‘My ministers’ focus is on increasing economic growth and safeguarding the health and security of the British people for generations…
