Patrick O’Flynn

How Reform can survive its civil war

15 March 2025 5:00 pm

After a spectacular week of feuding, opinion polls appear to show support for Reform UK remains unscathed. Reform somehow still…

Can Reform survive the rift between Farage and Lowe?

9 March 2025 9:52 pm

Sometimes politics throws up a happening of quite exquisite irony. Lee Anderson suspending the whip from Rupert Lowe, his party’s…

Is Reform serious about stopping the boats?

6 March 2025 10:22 pm

On no issue are Britain’s established political parties so compromised as on efforts to stop illegal immigrants gatecrashing our borders…

Was Starmer’s love-in with Trump really such a triumph?

1 March 2025 4:57 pm

Opponents of Keir Starmer would be well advised to concentrate on his many real weaknesses rather than inventing non-existent disasters…

Starmer’s surprisingly ruthless foreign aid cut

26 February 2025 8:29 pm

Ten years ago the idea of a British prime minister announcing a cut in foreign aid to 0.3 per cent…

Keir Starmer is doing a Boris on immigration

22 February 2025 5:30 pm

Keir Starmer is just the latest in a long line of prime ministers who says that immigration has been far…

Kemi Badenoch is more interested in liberalism than conservatism

17 February 2025 11:54 pm

Kemi Badenoch made a speech today which mentioned the terms ‘liberal’ or ‘liberalism’ seven times before the word ‘conservative’ got…

Has Nigel Farage missed the immigration vibe shift?

16 February 2025 5:30 pm

Who in Westminster is ‘right-wing’ on immigration? Which parties are actively propelling the Overton window to the right? If you…

Labour is doomed under Keir Starmer

9 February 2025 5:30 pm

Voters simply haven’t taken to the party leader and that’s becoming impossible to ignore. Presenting the public at the next election…

Will the Tories really kick out low-paid migrants?

6 February 2025 9:10 pm

We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this. It is hard when analysing the new Conservative…

The interview that exposes the Tories’ migration failures

31 January 2025 8:36 pm

Can we trust the Conservatives to deliver – or even to try to deliver – on whatever migration-sceptic policy pledges…

Reform is on the up – but it could easily come unstuck

29 January 2025 5:00 pm

British politics is in a new place: the combined polling score of Labour and the Conservatives is below 50 per…

When will Keir Starmer tell us everything about Southport?

22 January 2025 1:02 am

This morning Keir Starmer implied but did not categorically say that Islamist ideology was not the motivation of the dreadful…

Is Badenoch bouncing back?

18 January 2025 2:13 am

Conventional wisdom says the Tory leadership of Kemi Badenoch is close to crisis. This is perhaps because the prevailing political…

Why did Keir Starmer handle the Tulip Siddiq furore so badly?

15 January 2025 10:16 pm

When the anti-corruption minister is accused of corruption by a foreign government and has no prospect of being able to…

It’s unlikely Rachel Reeves is going anywhere

12 January 2025 1:28 am

Rachel Reeves, who is now fighting for her political life, was instrumental in helping Labour secure a landslide majority at…

Is Reform about to top the polls?

10 January 2025 1:46 am

Is Reform about to become the most popular political party in Britain, overtaking both Labour and the Tories in national…

Keir Starmer is dangerously out of touch

8 January 2025 1:43 am

The refusal of western elites to admit the failings of multiculturalism, and their ongoing molly-coddling of minority vested interests, is…

When will Keir Starmer realise how unpopular he is?

4 January 2025 6:00 pm

British politics can only be understood right now if one realises that Keir Starmer is presiding over a “landslide minority” government:…

When will Keir Starmer ‘smash the gangs’?

30 December 2024 11:23 pm

It’s been a busy Christmas in the English Channel. The small boat arrivals have continued at a startling pace through…

Kemi Badenoch’s attacks on Farage are backfiring spectacularly

29 December 2024 11:45 pm

Throughout the last parliament, Labour leader Keir Starmer and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey did not have a bad word…

Reform is rattling the establishment

24 December 2024 1:02 am

Everyone is talking about Reform: Rachel Reeves complains that Nigel Farage ‘doesn’t have a clue’ how to make the economy…

The Trump effect will benefit Farage – and cost the Tories

21 December 2024 4:00 pm

At the start of a roller-coaster ride, a motorised chain pulls the carriages up to the highest point of the…

Don’t blame Nimbys for Britain’s housing crisis

14 December 2024 5:15 pm

It would be an exaggeration to say that in politics conventional wisdom is always wrong – but equally it’s not…

The one way Labour can end the era of mass migration

10 December 2024 11:07 pm

Fresh from heralding the arrest of a Turkish suspected rubber dinghy salesman last month, Keir Starmer’s government is today touting…