Rishi Sunak won’t regret giving up on liberal Conservatism
It will not come as much of a shock to learn that people who voted Conservative in 2019 generally think…
Why Starmer is no heir to Blair
How big is a 20 point opinion poll lead and what word should we use to describe it – insurmountable,…
Will Sunak’s identity makeover pay off?
After claiming that Labour is on the same side as criminal people-trafficking gangs, Rishi Sunak clearly owes a rival party…
Will the Tories learn from Coutts’ mistake in taking on Nigel Farage?
Not for the first time in his colourful life, the perennial rebel Nigel Farage has the establishment on the run.…
Going soft on Net Zero could save Rishi Sunak
The Tory green brigade now tends to be heavily concentrated in the House of Lords, where Zac Goldsmith recently joined…
A nagging doubt about Keir Starmer has been exposed
‘One out of three ain’t bad’ isn’t a saying you hear often. Yet avoiding a clean sweep of by-election defeats…
Is Sunak any closer to implementing his Rwanda plan?
When the Lib Dem peer Brian Paddick complained on social media last month that the House of Lords was keeping…
Sunak needs a plan B for illegal migration
When Rishi Sunak made ‘stop the boats’ one of his key pledges at the start of the year he mentioned…
Have the Tories given up?
When confronted with a list of problems and setbacks afflicting the Government, a minister recently told me: ‘The darkest hour…
Project drear: Starmer’s plan to bore his way to power
The very modest poll ‘bounce’ that Rishi Sunak delivered for the Tories after the farcical Liz Truss premiership has proved…
How will Rishi Sunak ‘stop the boats’ now?
If Rishi Sunak’s five key pledges already looked in terrible shape at the start of the week – which they…
Could the election herald the rise of the small party?
These are heady times for Britain’s smaller political parties. Seldom has there been as much interest from voters in breaking…
Keir Starmer has let slip the truth about his plan to abolish the Lords
Can a political leader keep getting exposed for conveying obvious untruths and yet be judged a fit person to occupy…
Let’s not follow Boris down his path as ‘Britain’s Trump’
The Commons privileges committee report into the conduct of Boris Johnson is completely damning. All the kerfuffle about whether the…
What does Boris’s resignation mean for Rishi?
Such is Boris Johnson’s magnetic draw that his resignation gambit is still being discussed largely in terms of what it…
The truth about Boris Johnson’s ‘betrayal’ myth
These are testing times indeed for longstanding members of the ‘Boris Johnson is nothing like Donald Trump’ fraternity. Once again, the…
Brexiteers, calm down. Brexit has not been betrayed
Being a Brexiteer these days is like being Kenneth Williams playing Julius Caesar in Carry On Cleo. Far too often…
Will Rishi Sunak ever deliver on his ‘stop the boats’ pledge?
When Rishi Sunak replaced Liz Truss in Downing Street last autumn, fundamentalism gave way to incrementalism. So far, the results…
Immigration is an existential threat for Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak’s pet theory that voters are relaxed about the level of legal immigration – so long as the government…
The misdirected talent of Mizzy, the ‘TikTok terror’
Tessa Jowell once ignited a furious political row by claiming that inner-city youths active in criminal gangs were exhibiting a…
When will the Tories come clean on their migration plan?
Net annual immigration – which successive Tory manifestos promised the electorate would be brought down below 100,000 – has just…
Sunak can’t afford to lose Braverman
Back in the early days of the Blair governments, Alastair Campbell was reputed to have a rule for resignations: once…
Are the Tories finally getting serious on tackling illegal migration?
Something significant happened in Westminster yesterday. The Immigration Minister made a speech which showed a thorough understanding of the damage…
Rishi Sunak knows the Tory rebels are right about small boats
When the Rwanda migrant removals programme was torpedoed by a European judge at a hastily-convened hearing one evening last summer,…
Rishi Sunak’s immigration delusion
Few observers of politics can by now be in much doubt about the defective nature of Keir Starmer’s antennae when…
