How does the ‘Stormont Brake’ affect the Protocol?
After months of negotiating, Rishi Sunak has today unveiled his changes to the Northern Ireland Protocol. They focus on three…
Rishi risks another asylum outcry
With the likelihood of a deal on the Northern Ireland Protocol fading this week, a new issue has emerged to…
Corporation tax could be one of Hunt’s biggest Budget headaches
Public sector pay. Re-negotiating the energy price guarantee. Another fuel duty freeze. Jeremy Hunt’s first Budget on 15 March is…
Damian Green’s rejection is a sign of things to come
Much has been written about Damian Green’s failure on Saturday to be selected for the new Weald of Kent seat.…
Why China could be Truss’s best hope for rehabilitation
This week two former Foreign Secretaries offered competing visions for how Britain should engage with China. On Wednesday, Philip Hammond…
Labour gets its house in order
After 839 days, the Labour party has today been let out of special measures by the equalities watchdog over its…
‘I’m not some toffee-nosed Tory’
Lee Anderson on poverty, immigration and the death penalty
Four things we learnt from Richard Sharp’s BBC grilling
This morning Richard Sharp, the BBC’s Chairman, appeared before the Culture select committee of MPs. It was a difficult session…
What Liz Truss gets right (and wrong)
After three months of silence, Liz Truss has spoken out – first in a 4,000-word article for the Telegraph and…
The anti-strike bill shows the Tories can still unite
The House of Commons voted to pass the government’s flagship trade union legislation on 30 January. By 315 to 246…
Welfare reform is back on the agenda
This week Jonathan Ashworth set out Labour’s answer to the 5.2 million on out-of-work benefits – a figure which The…
Simon Clarke: What the PM can learn from Liz Truss
Simon Clarke on what the PM can learn from ‘radical’ Liz Truss
Can the House of Lords survive?
Can the Lords survive?
Trading places: George Eustice on Brexit, Sunak and the Australian deal
Former environment secretary George Eustice on the PM’s deal dilemma
Will anyone buy my Liz Truss book?
The horror of writing Liz Truss’s biography
Government wins fracking vote amid chaos
The government won tonight’s vote on fracking but it truly was a Pyrrhic victory. On paper, the numbers involved –…
What does the new cabinet tell us about Truss?
”Loyalty’ remarked Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe is ‘the Tory party’s secret weapon.’ The near constant blue-on-blue attacks of the last six…
How far will Tugendhat go?
There were three leadership launches in Westminster this morning. Rishi Sunak, the frontrunner, spoke at the QEII Centre; Kemi Badenoch,…
Zahawi: I will go for growth
The big winner from yesterday’s drama was Nadhim Zahawi. Just ten months ago he was a junior minister: now he…
Inside the clash between Boris and Charles
Boris and Charles have had slightly fractious dealings so far
Tory MPs split on Johnson’s absence
Boris Johnson has left the country – but that hasn’t stopped him from annoying his backbenchers. The Prime Minister is…
Changing channels: the new war for political broadcasting
The television will be revolutionised
Eton mess: inside the battle to run Britain’s top public school
A school at war with itself
Workshy Whitehall: why can’t the PM get his civil servants back to work?
Too few civil servants are returning to the office
Five things we learnt from Johnson’s evidence to MPs
Boris Johnson rocked up at the Liaison Committee today, fresh from last night’s bonding dinner with 250 Tory MPs. And…
