Patrick O’Flynn

Will Trump listen to Starmer?

6 November 2024 11:01 pm

Here is a sign of how weak Keir Starmer’s relationship is with the new leader of the free world. Nigel…

Starmer’s plan to stop the boats is a comical gimmick

4 November 2024 10:35 pm

The shiny new Downing Street operation that has come into being since the departure of Sue Gray has decreed that…

Kemi Badenoch will face an exposed Keir Starmer

2 November 2024 10:10 pm

Kemi Badenoch could probably already have served a truncated term as prime minister had she made different choices. Back at…

Will there be a surprise in Rachel Reeves’s Budget?

30 October 2024 6:56 pm

Most chancellors pull a rabbit out of a hat during their Budget statements – something to delight their own MPs…

How the Tories changed their tune on Nigel Farage – and Reform

19 October 2024 6:00 pm

A year ago, the Reform party had an average poll rating of six per cent and was as good as…

The Tory leadership contest is Kemi Badenoch’s to lose

18 October 2024 9:47 am

Were Kemi Badenoch not to be unveiled as the next Conservative party leader in a couple of weeks it would…

Britain’s lax immigration policy is making it an outlier

17 October 2024 3:01 am

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has this week put out an official statement that could fairly be described…

The Tory leadership contest is Badenoch’s to lose

13 October 2024 6:00 pm

And then there were two. Either Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will be the next Conservative leader. This is a…

The Tory heirs to Blair are no more

10 October 2024 3:47 am

So the Conservative party is not going to try to become ‘more normal’ in the eyes of establishment centrists after…

How James Cleverly can stitch up the Tory leadership race

9 October 2024 3:36 am

Today’s third round of MP voting in the Tory leadership race has given James Cleverly an almost perfect result. Not…

The case for – and against – James Cleverly

5 October 2024 10:00 am

When is the best time to hit the front of a Tory leadership contest? In the final chain of the…

The demise of the Tory party has been greatly exaggerated

2 October 2024 11:45 pm

Something happened at the Conservative party conference today which suggested it is too soon to write off the democratic world’s most…

What Cleverly gets wrong about Sunak’s pledge to ‘stop the boats’

1 October 2024 9:08 pm

Back in the 1980s, the American business guru Tom Peters came up with the advice to companies to ‘under-promise and…

Could Badenoch blow it?

30 September 2024 10:25 pm

Fans of Frank Sinatra used to have a favourite saying when their hero was in his pomp: ‘It’s Frank’s world.…

How the Tories can bounce back

29 September 2024 4:35 pm

What will be Rishi Sunak’s political legacy, other than the terribly embarrassing thing that happened on July 4? Not free speech…

Keir Starmer has shown why the Tories will struggle against him

25 September 2024 2:29 am

Keir Starmer gave a formidable speech to the Labour conference today. It was easily good enough to inspire the party’s…

Keir Starmer’s problems are of his own making

22 September 2024 4:30 pm

That nobody in Keir Starmer’s inner circle worked out that trashing his personal reputation for a hundred grand’s worth of…

How Robert Jenrick stole Kemi Badenoch’s thunder

7 September 2024 4:45 pm

Robert Jenrick appears on course to become leader of the Conservative party within a year of resigning from ministerial office…

Keir Starmer’s popularity delusion

31 August 2024 10:00 am

All year Keir Starmer has been using a reassuring phrase about his inevitable Downing Street tenure in a bid to calm…

Keir Starmer can’t blame the Tories forever

27 August 2024 11:52 pm

Keir Starmer’s rose garden speech today should be seen as a companion piece to last month’s melodramatic Commons statement by…

Things can only get worse for Keir Starmer

25 August 2024 8:05 pm

When Rishi Sunak announced a July election during a torrential downpour, one leftist wag played ‘Things Can Only Get Better’…

Starmer’s plan to ‘smash the gangs’ won’t work

13 August 2024 12:54 am

We are approaching the fifth anniversary of British prime ministers promising to stem the tide of illegal migration across the…

Migration figures are falling – but the crisis is far from over

10 August 2024 12:20 am

Ok folks, the show is over and there’s nothing left to see: that traditional refrain of an American police officer…

Keir Starmer’s riot crisis

3 August 2024 6:40 pm

Just a month into the Labour ascendancy and its first major political crisis has already taken shape. It is not…

Does it matter if Kemi Badenoch was mean to civil servants?

31 July 2024 8:47 pm

Kemi Badenoch has been accused of being an unpleasant bully who targeted civil servants for unconscionable treatment. The allegations –…