Only Nigel Farage can save us now
When the Prime Minister cannot be bothered to listen to the Budget it sends out a pretty big signal to…
Can the Tories avoid oblivion?
Another day, another terrible poll for the Tories – the latest YouGov survey records support for the parties at Labour…
Keir Starmer must stand up to George Galloway
George Galloway has done it again. As an expert in riding waves of fury among Muslim voters about happenings in…
Why is the BBC not telling the full truth about a trans cat-killing murderer?
Given that the BBC places great store in having a ‘Verify’ unit to root out fake news emanating from other…
The Lee Anderson row shows the Tory party has broken down
What are we to make of the Lee Anderson saga? The very fact that this low-rent furore is dominating our Sunday…
Lindsay Hoyle has become a menace
The Labour party is not very good at electing prime ministers but it is very good indeed at electing House…
The Tories should be worried about Reform
And with one bound he was free. In fact let’s make that two. A pair of whopping by-election wins in…
Rishi Sunak’s week of howlers has exposed his big weakness
It is quite some achievement to launch an attack on Keir Starmer’s contortions over trans rights versus women’s rights and…
Christians are being played for fools in asylum claims
It came as quite a shock when we learned that many of our universities had moved into the lucrative trade…
Tory MPs must share the blame with Sunak for the party’s troubles
Rishi Sunak is a drab technocrat mired in a failed political paradigm and with a tin ear for public opinion.…
Clarke’s bid to oust Sunak has flopped – for now
It was ‘the knife of the long knight’, joked one social media wag about the bid by the unfeasibly tall…
The damning poll that could inspire Tories to move against Sunak
The debate about whether Rishi Sunak’s Tories are heading for a 1992-style against-the-odds narrow election win or a 1997-style landslide…
Keir Starmer says it best when he says nothing at all
There is a modern country music standard called ‘When You Say Nothing At All’. The song, taken to the top…
Will Nigel Farage team up with the Tories?
How is the idea that Nigel Farage might join the ‘broad church’ Conservative party going then? Given that he floated…
The Tories’ only hope is tax cuts
In the old days, when the Conservatives were chalking up opinion poll ratings in the forties, their strategists knew they…
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…
