Starmer’s plan to stop the boats might not be what it seems
It comes as a relief to learn that Keir Starmer doesn’t really believe setting up a new security organisation to…
What should the Tory party do about Suella Braverman?
How do you solve a problem like Suella? Rishi Sunak is facing calls to expel Braverman from the Conservative party…
Can Robert Jenrick save the Tories?
At the 2019 general election, the Tories won eight seats out of eleven in Nottinghamshire, but now the political map…
Will the Tories finally get the message?
Can it just be a coincidence that most of the leading figures of the Tory left lost their seats, while…
This exit poll is truly devastating for the Tories
If Tories find some comfort in getting into three figures in the exit poll, they are kidding themselves. Not only…
Sunak’s campaign has been a disaster from start to finish
Dry wit is a much under-appreciated quality in this age of high-impact sledgehammer communication. In an election full of sub-standard soundbites…
Rishi Sunak has proved he is terrible at politics
Today’s hot topic for the Rishi Sunak-is-terrible-at-politics club is the foolishness of suspending candidates mired in the election betting scandal…
Boris Johnson can’t save the Tories from the coming wipeout
Are you beach-body ready? Boris Johnson, who has always projected a joyously uninhibited confidence about his physical form, clearly thinks…
Are the Tories about to fall into Farage’s trap – again?
Nigel Farage’s tail is up. The Reform party election campaign has gone better than he dared hope and its poll…
Reform is rapidly gaining on the Tories
The great British public seems to have got over its feelings of anger and disillusionment towards the Conservative party. It…
Keir Starmer’s manifesto will disappoint Tory spin doctors
Keir Starmer and the Labour party today launched a manifesto that’s good enough to win this election and presented it…
Rishi Sunak’s manifesto is thin gruel
Rishi Sunak today launched a manifesto that might suffice for a governing party polling at level pegging with the opposition…
Rishi Sunak is bad at politics. Who knew?
Everyone is finally noticing that Rishi Sunak is rubbish at politics. Given the scale of his faux pas in bailing…
Nigel Farage knows the Tories are there for the taking
The one thing that had gone right for Rishi Sunak in the election campaign to date has now gone wrong.…
The Tories have handed Starmer a gift on immigration
To turn Keir Starmer, of all people, into someone who can credibly promise to bring immigration down is an act…
How does Sunak solve a problem like Farage?
In the classic comedy Blackadder II the late, great Rik Mayall was responsible for one of the most memorable cameo…
This national service plan is a patronising gimmick
The idea of bringing back national service to knock into shape teenage tearaways and long-haired layabouts was a staple of…
Rishi’s Rwanda row back shows he is hopeless at politics
Rwanda removals policy, for so long an anticipated cornerstone of the Tory re-election effort, has today officially become an ‘over…
Are Labour really nailed on to win?
What happens when a resistible force collides with a moveable object? Such is the nature of the imminent battle between…
Voters want safe streets, not small changes to inflation
For Rishi Sunak, today amounts to another instalment of the fantastic success story of his premiership: that ‘the plan is…
Could Farage save the Tory right?
Talk to almost any right-wing Tory MP these days and one of the first things they raise – with me…
Keir Starmer won’t stop the boats
Labour’s new ‘stop the boats’ policy is a risible exercise in deception that will only ever fool the truly gullible.…
There’s nothing noble about Natalie Elphicke’s defection
With the best will in the world, it is hard to see the defection of Natalie Elphicke MP to the…
After Street’s loss, the Tories have one strategy left
Tory supporters went to bed on Friday night believing that their man Andy Street would hold on handily in the…
The local election results hold few crumbs of comfort for Sunak
Given the universal forecasts of the Tories taking a proper pasting in yesterday’s elections, it is quite something for Rishi…
