Angela Rayner had a bad PMQs
With Keir Starmer at Nato, the hospital pass of this week’s PMQs was handed instead to Angela Rayner. The welfare…
Labour rebels declare war over Starmer’s welfare cuts
It is a year next week since the general election and Labour is marking the occasion with the biggest backbench…
Badenoch: Tories are ‘the adults in the room’
It is a year of two major anniversaries for the Tories. The first is the centenary of Margaret Thatcher’s birth;…
Farage makes his pitch to non-doms
Reform UK are on the rise – quite literally. The party is planning to move one floor up in their…
Farage’s latest hero? Benjamin Disraeli
At 9 a.m on Monday morning, Nigel Farage will march into a central London venue to make one of his…
Keir Starmer is not having a good war
This is not been Keir Starmer’s finest week on the world stage. At the G7 on Tuesday, the Prime Minister…
America hits Iran’s nuclear sites
Just before 1 a.m GMT on Sunday morning, Donald Trump announced that the United States had bombed three nuclear sites…
Tories will remember this assisted dying vote
‘I judge a man by one thing, which side would he have liked his ancestors to fight on at Marston…
Commons passes the assisted dying bill
The House of Commons has voted in favour of assisted dying by a narrow majority of 23. After four and…
The understudied importance of political slogans
‘Make America Great Again’. ‘Take Back Control’. ‘Yes We Can’. There are many political slogans – but only a handful…
Assisted dying risks being Labour’s Brexit
On Friday, the Commons will vote on the third reading of the assisted dying bill. Most MPs expect it to…
Kemi Badenoch defends the Tories’ record on grooming gangs
Kemi Badenoch said that ‘survivors and their families’ have been ‘ignored for far too long’ as she appeared alongside those…
The British right is embracing direct action
First, it was Robert Jenrick tackling fare dodgers. Then it was Gareth Davies pursuing a thief. You might be forgiven…
Rachel Reeves, the Iron Chancer
Gordon Brown may not be every teenager’s political pin-up. But as an Oxford student, Rachel Reeves proudly kept a framed…
David Bull is Reform UK’s new chairman
‘There are no disasters, only opportunities.’ Boris Johnson’s famous mantra is being embraced by Nigel Farage as he tries to…
Reeves cannot afford more episodes like the winter fuel U-turn
This afternoon Rachel Reeves finally completed the longest U-turn in British politics. Ahead of her spending review on Wednesday, the…
Why Zia Yusuf changed his mind about quitting Reform
Well, that was quick. Within 48 hours of his resignation as party chairman, Zia Yusuf has returned to the Reform…
Nigel’s army: Reform’s plans for victory
‘I’ve changed my mind!’ It is a year this week since Nigel Farage uttered those fateful words, marking his decision…
The Tories are edging towards ECHR exit
Following last month’s local elections disaster, Kemi Badenoch’s team promised a ‘step change’. So just 24 hours after Shadow Chancellor…
Zia Yusuf resigns as Reform chairman
Zia Yusuf has tonight resigned as chairman of Reform UK. In a statement, he posted on X that ‘I no…
Mel Stride’s ‘mea culpa’ for Liz Truss
The Shadow Chancellor’s speech this morning was a predictable one. Mel Stride is the kind of Conservative who spin doctors…
Kemi has a new favourite word: chaos
Whisper it, but there was some rather good lines amid the dross of today’s PMQs. ‘Mr Speaker, I asked the…
Starmer tries to sell the Strategic Defence Review
The Prime Minister has been up in Scotland this morning, ahead of the full publication of the Strategic Defence Review…
What is Robert Jenrick up to?
It has been another good week for Robert Jenrick. At a time when many of the shadow cabinet are struggling…
The rise of the Red Queen
‘All Labour prime ministers go gaga for the Queen,’ sighed Cherie Blair, played by Helen McCrory, in the 2006 film…
