Sunak’s AI summit has achieved little on its own
What was the point of Rishi Sunak’s landmark AI summit at Bletchley Park? The Prime Minister has just given a…
What’s the point of the Covid inquiry?
Was anything in Martin Reynolds’s evidence to the Covid inquiry surprising today? We already knew that Boris Johnson had a…
Can Starmer take the heat off the Labour ceasefire row?
Keir Starmer is under increasing pressure from Labour frontbenchers to change tack and back calls for a ceasefire in the…
Will the UK proscribe Iran’s revolutionary guard?
Why won’t the government proscribe the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps? MPs have been asking that question for more than a…
Sunak declares ‘watershed moment’ in Middle East
Rishi Sunak’s update to MPs on the Israel-Hamas conflict today included the revelation that the UK security services had concluded…
Can Sunak convince Tory MPs to hold their nerve?
Why have the Tories lost both Mid Bedfordshire and Tamworth, seats they could normally rely on the laws of physics…
Sunak unites the Commons behind Israel’s right to defence
Most of the questions to Rishi Sunak today at Prime Minister’s Questions can be usefully summarised by the point put…
Sunak calls the Israel attack a ‘pogrom’
Should the UK warn Israel about its response to the Hamas attack? The Prime Minister was very pointed as he…
Keir Starmer looks ready for an election
The stage invasion at the start of Keir Starmer’s speech was a total failure for the protestor who carried it…
Rishi Sunak vows to end the ‘30-year status quo’ in Tory conference speech
Rishi Sunak pitched himself as the change candidate at the next election in his speech to Conservative party conference this…
Sunak set to scrap HS2 from Birmingham to Manchester
Rishi Sunak will tomorrow confirm he is scrapping the HS2 link between Manchester and Birmingham, Coffee House understands. The prime…
The great Tory dilemma: try to win or prepare for defeat?
What are the Conservatives putting the most effort into: winning the next election, or life after defeat? While Rishi Sunak…
Sunak’s climate climbdown puts Labour in a pickle
Rishi Sunak hadn’t wanted to announce the first part of his ‘vision’ for government this way. He was bounced into…
Sunak is embracing wind farms because of politics, not principle
Michael Gove today announced that the government was relaxing the effective ban on new onshore wind farms that was introduced…
How did the Tories not see the school concrete crisis coming?
How did they not see this coming? Normally that question is one of the laziest you can ask in Westminster:…
Hospital pass
No one who has paid any attention to NHS scandals over the past few decades should be at all surprised…
How was Lucy Letby able to operate in an NHS hospital?
How was Lucy Letby able to operate as a serial killer in an NHS hospital? Now that the verdicts in…
How the Tories plan to take the fight to Labour on the NHS
Brace yourselves for health week. After the rip-roaring success of the government’s ‘stop the boats’ week, you might forgive the…
Ulez isn’t the election gift Sunak wishes it was
Given everyone has won a prize in this round of by-elections, the three main party leaders have been feasting on…
Illegal Migration Bill passed by Lords
The Illegal Migration Bill is making its final crossing today to become an Act, after peers and MPs voted into…
Tories fight over Illegal Migration Bill
The Illegal Migration Bill is back this afternoon for ‘ping pong’ – the final stage of its legislative passage where…
Boris’s allies defend their attacks on the Privileges Committee
The House of Commons often rises early these days, with little in the way of legislation to keep MPs busy.…
Starmer commits to oracy classes for children
Keir Starmer is giving another speech on one of his five missions (remember them?) today. The Labour leader has a…
Chris Pincher’s suspension spells more trouble for Rishi Sunak
Chris Pincher should be suspended as an MP for eight weeks following allegations he groped two people at the Carlton…
Sugar rush
The curious obsession with glucose monitoring gadgets
