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…
The steel debate was an unseemly blame game
In the end, it was David Davis who said it best. Today’s emergency debate on how to save British Steel’s…
China hits back against Trump’s tariffs
Donald Trump has sown the wind – and now America must reap the whirlwind. Beijing has today announced plans to…
The Sentencing Council U-turn is a victory for Jenrick
It was not quite at the eleventh hour – but it wasn’t too far off. The Sentencing Council has tonight…
The Lib Dems are gunning for Middle England
This morning’s local elections launch was everything we have come to expect from the Liberal Democrats. In leafy Henley, Ed…
Starmer pledges migration action before summer wave
The British weather is improving – and that is bad news for Labour’s migration efforts. For the past five years,…
Can Reform emulate its Canadian cousins?
A historic election defeat leaves the Conservatives crushed, Reform rampant and a left-wing government securely entrenched in power. The similarities…
The Boden Belt: the Lib Dems are the new party of the posh
The English social season has begun, kicking off with Gold Cup day. But this year, there is a new common…
Carney calls Canada election for 28 April
At long last, we have a date. In just over a month’s time, Canadians will head to the polls to…
Inside Team Kemi’s plan for power
In elections, as in wine, lesser years can still produce good vintages. Tony Blair and Gordon Brown first won their…
Will Kemi’s anti-net zero campaign bother Labour?
The people’s republic of Holborn and St Pancras is not exactly fertile Tory territory. But it was in a swanky…
