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…
The issue that will win or lose the election for Liz Truss
Nobody knows what they think about Liz Truss. Not literally nobody – those of us with a wholly unusual level…
Albanian channel crossings are making our borders look like a joke
The wholesale abuse of the United Kingdom’s asylum system has taken a novel, absurdist twist in the last few months.…
Don’t write off Michael Gove
No senior politician has ever possessed a talent for upsetting prime ministers to match that of Michael Gove’s. David Cameron…
The Channel migrant crisis will make or break Liz Truss
Liz Truss has been clear about her key selling point throughout her leadership campaign. At its launch she boasted: ‘I…
Why Rishi Sunak shouldn't quit
We are in the depths of silly season. The perfect time, then, for the Conservative party to be choosing a…
How 'taking the knee' spoiled football
Premier League footballers ‘taking a knee’ came in at the tail end of the 2019-20 season, when stadiums were empty…
Why can't we enjoy England's football win without politicising it?
Not everything has to be politicised all the time. Some things are just news. Often bad news, such as an…
The triumph of Truss
This week has seen a dramatic development that has taken the Westminster Village by surprise: Britain suddenly has an identifiable…
The decline and fall of Rishi Sunak
Ed Balls, the intellectual powerhouse behind the economics of the New Labour era, was once described as having a brain…
Why I’m coming round to the idea of Prime Minister Truss
The prospect of Liz Truss becoming the United Kingdom’s third female prime minister is antagonising all the right people. Almost…
Kemi Badenoch will be the new Tory leader's secret weapon
There was an unmistakable whiff of an Addams Family portrait about the cabinet photocall that marked the final gathering of…
