Labour is doomed whether Starmer stays or goes
So the Conservatives have won the ‘pools, as we used to say of jackpot winners before the advent of the National…
Hartlepool and the theft of the Labour party
When the unthinkable happened in 1882 and England lost a test match on home soil to Australia there followed a…
How Boris eclipsed Cameron
Remember the days when David Cameron was the sleek young prime minister who had brought to an end 13 years…
Sadiq Khan's victory could be bad news for Labour
Let’s take a look into a political crystal ball: it is Friday 7 May and a beaming Sadiq Khan is…
Diane Abbott has exposed Keir Starmer's Red Wall dilemma
Were Keir Starmer more like Gordon Brown in temperament then by now he’d be throwing his mobile phone at a…
The Green party is missing a trick
The British left is moribund. The Labour party’s ratings are sliding under Sir Keir Starmer, aka ‘Captain Hindsight’, as he…
The greatest threat to Boris's legacy
The government is starting to have an opinion poll problem, but it has nothing to do with any great threat…
Can Labour capture the spirit of the post-war era?
The right is usually much better than the left at harnessing the awesome power of the folk memories that surround…
Labour’s revealing support for reparations
The most extreme measure in the entire Labour Party manifesto of 2019 – and this is a high bar –…
Do Tories know the truth about Boris Johnson?
Exactly 40 years ago tomorrow, four Labour party grandees issued the Limehouse Declaration, signalling ‘the re-emergence of social democracy in…
How Farage plans to shake up British politics
Right-wing protest politics has just catastrophically over-reached in America, but it is suddenly back in business in Britain. Its dominant…
Nigel Farage’s China curveball should worry the Tory party
I have lost count of the number of times the Conservative Party has thought it has shot Nigel Farage’s fox.…
Has Brexit already destroyed Labour’s chances?
Part of the soap opera appeal of politics comes from the idea that it is a competitive sport based on…
If Boris doesn’t blink over Brexit, Starmer becomes unelectable
If it’s No Deal, then it will usher in a crisis that will highlight the leader’s negative baggage and remind…
Are the Tories still the party of Sound Money?
When Philip Hammond delivered a notably parsimonious Spring Budget statement in 2017, his predecessor George Osborne put out a congratulatory…
The time is ripe for a Boris comeback
‘The thing about the greased piglet is that he manages to slip through other people’s hands where mere mortals fail.’…
Macron has exposed the cowardice of Boris's response to terror
Sometimes what a politician leaves unsaid tells us more than what he does say. Take the different reactions to the wave…
Instead of lockdown, let's create a National Shielding Service
So what would you do? That was the question that cropped up on my Twitter timeline after I’d sent out…
Keir Starmer needs a reshuffle to win back the Blue Wall
The most important fact about British politics is also the most mundane: the next general election is an awfully long…
Boris's Covid policy is finally starting to make some sense
Boris Johnson probably thought he emerged from Prime Minister’s Questions this week having maximised his freedom of manoeuvre in the battle…
Nigel Farage is watching and waiting for the next Tory slip-up
A few weeks ago, Nigel Farage enjoyed a get together with a very senior Conservative party figure. Brexit was, naturally,…
Could Boris quit?
Could Boris do a Harold Wilson? Over the years there has been much speculation about the sudden resignation of Wilson…
In defence of Boris's 'Rule of Six'
It wasn’t supposed to be like this, was it? Six months after the imposition of lockdown, we were meant to…
Starmer needs more than just competence
Keir Starmer went back to what he most enjoys at Prime Minister’s Questions: calling the government incompetent and demanding that…
Boris Johnson’s careerist cabinet problem
Last year Boris Johnson won three notable domestic political victories. His hot streak began when he romped home in the…
