The Tories can’t be trusted
Accusing the Tories of starting a culture war against minority identity groups and their supporters is rather like accusing Ukraine…
The High Court Rwanda ruling is a win for the Tories
Today’s High Court ruling that the government’s plan to send irregular migrants to Rwanda on a one-way ticket is lawful…
Rishi Sunak’s immigration plan could be a game changer
Rishi Sunak today gave a potentially game-changing statement in the Commons, finally committing the Conservatives to effective action when it…
Will Braverman turn on Sunak over the Channel crisis?
Finally the Tory government appears to have realised that its serial mishandling of the Channel boats issue is the top…
Why do so many people now hate the Tories?
When Labour lost Hartlepool to the Tories in a parliamentary by-election 18 months ago, Keir Starmer was reported to have…
Where’s the moral outrage at England’s cricket tour of Pakistan?
Everyone on the television agrees: seeing an England team give succour to a repressive regime by playing prestigious fixtures on…
Will Rishi Sunak get away with ignoring voters on the right?
Conventional wisdom has long held that the Conservatives win elections from the centre ground – including territory just to the…
A Swiss-style Brexit would delight Nigel Farage
Someone near the top of government – let us give him the random alias Heremy Junt – is stoking the…
The remarkable transformation of Keir Starmer
Amid all the frenetic changes of leadership in the Conservative party, something important has been overlooked about the Labour party:…
At sea: can Sunak navigate the migrant crisis?
Can Rishi Sunak navigate the migrant crisis?
The Channel migrant crisis is spiralling out of control
When did the scale of illegal immigration into the UK via Channel dinghies become a first order political issue for…
Backing Badenoch and Braverman is key to Sunak's success
What do you do when you are a prime minister presiding over a desperately difficult economic outlook riddled with features…
Can Rishi Sunak rescue the Tories from electoral wipeout?
‘At least I’ve been prime minister’ – those were the reported words of Liz Truss on realising that she had…
The Boris strategy needs to change
Had Boris Johnson simply wished to use the current vacancy for prime minister to remind us all of his superstar status…
Booting Boris was a catastrophic error
To call it a shambles is an insult to the many perfectly respectable shambles that take place each day up…
Could the Tories’ downfall be Reform’s big chance?
The Reform party, under its leader Richard Tice, invented Trussonomics before Liz Truss – launching an economic recovery plan in…
Beware a Tory in a hurry
Liz Truss will not lead the Conservative party into the next general election, despite her rather hesitant claim to the…
Who voted for Jeremy Hunt to run Britain?
Jeremy Hunt has no mandate to lead Britain. He couldn’t muster sufficient Tory MPs behind him to properly enter the…
The spectacular fall of Liz Truss
Is Liz Truss the new Theresa May? A fortnight ago that question seemed unduly insulting to the Prime Minister. Now it…
A Boris Johnson comeback is ridiculous – but not impossible
It would obviously be ridiculous for the Conservatives to dump Liz Truss after just a few weeks and seek to re-install…
The Liz Truss survival guide
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you then, as Rudyard…
The Queen's funeral was a fitting send off for Elizabeth the Great
In the Christian tradition, which allows for a protracted gap between death and burial, there is often time for initial…
The sorry state of republicanism
As republican protestors seek to disrupt the handing on of the title of head of state from one royal to…
The end of the Elizabethan age
The Queen’s fragile smile in the official photograph released as she waited to appoint Liz Truss as her 15th Prime Minister…
Truss is in a stronger position than Thatcher – for now
People used to understand that they were ageing when they noticed police officers in their neighbourhood looking unfeasibly young. Given…
