Rishi’s rule will end with a whimper, not a bang
That best-selling 1970s toy Action Man proved the power of evolution. First, the painted hair on the initial models was…
Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats
Do not let the relatively comfortable margin of victory for the Rwanda Bill’s second reading fool you: we have now…
Jenrick’s resignation is a turning point for the Tory party
When he found out that a career-minded MP called Rishi Sunak had come out in favour of leaving the EU,…
Suella Braverman’s deadly warning for the PM
While it would be unfair to suggest that Tory MPs only care about holding onto their seats at the next…
Why didn’t Sunak listen to Braverman’s migration warning?
Conventional wisdom about politics isn’t quite always wrong: it is merely shown by the passage of events to have been…
Newsnight doomed itself
Whither Newsnight? Or do I mean wither, Newsnight – shortly to be reduced to a 30-minute debate show shorn of…
Sunak doesn’t realise the trouble he’s in on immigration
As they headed into the autumn, Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives needed a gamechanger. Their gradual recovery in the polls…
Will Farage return to haunt the Tories?
The rise of Ukip and the highway to Brexit was greatly smoothed by the widespread perception that British governments had…
Sunak has no excuse for immigration being this high
Of all the essential tasks facing Rishi Sunak when he became Prime Minister, bringing down the level of legal immigration…
Is Rishi Sunak preparing to throw Tory Red Wall MPs overboard?
Can the people around Rishi Sunak really be dim enough not to have anticipated that his reshuffle would go down…
Don’t blame ‘lefty lawyers’ for the Rwanda debacle
There is no point in critics of our activist judiciary kicking off about today’s Supreme Court’s decision that the government’s…
Rishi Sunak will regret bringing back David Cameron
So farewell then to the great realignment: Suella Braverman out of a great office of state and David Cameron back…
How Sunak can use Braverman’s biggest weakness against her
So Suella Braverman is going to get whacked then. One discerns this from the behaviour of senior ministers sent out…
Rishi Sunak is in office but not in power
Can Rishi Sunak still catch a break or has the plughole spiral of British politics now dragged him firmly into…
Sacking Suella could sink Sunak
If prizes were dished out for saying what the unwashed and un-woke are thinking then Suella Braverman would be garlanded…
Rishi Sunak’s Oliver Dowden problem
Margaret Thatcher was said to have once remarked that every prime minister needed a Willie. Given that humour was not…
Sunak has united conservatives but not how he hoped
Why are the Conservatives doing quite so badly? Smashed in two by-elections, dropping further in the polls, last days of…
Tory voters are no longer scared of Labour
Amid all the discussion in Tory circles about whether the next election will have more in common with the narrow…
Is migration really about to halve?
Could our current record levels of immigration be a flash in the pan, a statistical spike brought about by the…
What is the right punishment for Just Stop Oil’s Cambridge protestor?
As a longstanding supporter of ancient over modern in the architecture stakes, it can only grieve me to see the…
The winners and losers of this year’s conference season
Conference season 2023 is done and dusted, with punchy Wes Streeting having performed the final significant act yesterday via his…
Could Nigel Farage unlock victory for Keir Starmer?
What is Labour’s offer for Nigel Farage? Yes, you read that right. Of course, Keir Starmer’s party detests almost everything…
Tory MPs can dare to dream about the next election
Were you a centre-right leader seeking the perfect person to condemn you for implementing a mildly populist measure then a…
‘Associate membership’ of the EU would be a disaster for Britain
The idea of the United Kingdom becoming an ‘associate member’ of the European Union is a non-starter because it would…
Starmer’s migrant plan is even worse than the Tories’
Labour’s long-awaited approach to stopping the Channel boats is so pusillanimous that it ought to be a political gamechanger for…
