Starmer’s EU ‘reset’ risks pleasing no one
Keir Starmer has just wrapped up his press conference with European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen. The Prime Minister…
Starmer’s EU ‘reset’ will have winners and losers
A pragmatic ‘reset’ or a ‘surrender summit’? The spin has already started ahead of today’s big UK-EU jamboree at Lancaster…
Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer
Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an ‘aggressive form’ of prostate cancer, according to a statement released by his office on…
Kemi Badenoch now leads the ‘Tinkerbell Tories’
Market choice has long been an article of faith in the Conservative party. But the Tories are less keen on…
Parliament is changing its mind on assisted dying
There was a markedly different feel to today’s debate on Assisted Dying. The last time the House debated Kim Leadbeater’s…
Inside Zia Yusuf’s Reform masterplan
On Monday, I sat down for a lengthy interview on Spectator TV with Zia Yusuf, the chairman of Reform UK.…
Starmer: migration control is a ‘core Labour value’
This morning, the Home Office is publishing its long-awaited white paper on legal migration. The Home Secretary has already been…
The changing face of Nigel Farage
On Monday night, a hundred Reform staff and donors met at a Marylebone pub to toast the local election results.…
Tories slump to 17 per cent in poll
A new YouGov poll published this morning makes for grim reading for Kemi Badenoch’s team. It finds that, in the…
Labour vs the unions
At the start of February, trade union chiefs assembled in No. 10 with their agenda for government. Top of the…
The Labour left turns on Starmer
After defeat, comes the recriminations. The bulk of council seats are still yet to declare but already the blame game…
Reform seizes Runcorn in teal tsunami
Less than 10 per cent of council seats have declared thus far. But there already looks to be a clear…
Badenoch attacks Starmer over rape gangs
All politics is local – and no more so than this week. With various voters set to head to the…
What is Tony Blair up to?
‘Just what is Tony up to?’ That was what one Labour MP asked, quizzically, when I bumped into them in…
Mark Carney pulls off exceptional win in Canadian election
Results are still flooding in from Canada – but Mark Carney looks to have done the impossible. The Liberal leader…
Will Labour’s migration crackdown work?
Who is the most powerful woman in government? For some, it is the Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper. Next month, her…
Three problems with a Tory-Reform pact
The final week of the local election campaign begins today. Much of the weekend discourse was dominated by the fall-out…
The secret behind Reform’s local election campaign
It is an irony of Brexit that, since we left the EU, British politics has become more European. The local…
Farage plans ‘Minister for deportations’
Machinery of government is not the sexiest of subjects – but it is a useful way of signalling a politician’s…
What did Robert Jenrick mean by his Tory-Reform ‘coalition’ comments?
Robert Jenrick just cannot stay out of the headlines. Today, the shadow justice secretary is under-fire for comments made to…
Why Labour is finally publishing migrant crime league tables
Official league tables displaying nationalities of migrants with the highest rates of crime are set to be published for the…
UK-US trade deal ‘within three weeks’
It is the eternal question for UK policymakers: America or Europe? For the past nine months, Keir Starmer has sought…
Reform remix Farage’s greatest hits
In truth, there was little that was new in Nigel Farage’s speech today. For more than a decade, he has…
Nigel Farage turns his guns on the red wall
Much of the commentary on the local elections has focused thus far on the Tories’ southern discontent. But today, Nigel…
‘Betgate’ is the latest blow to the Welsh Tories
It is a tough life these days being a member of the Welsh Conservatives. The party lost every Westminster seat…
