Steerpike

Steerpike is The Spectator's gossip columnist, serving up the latest tittle tattle from London and beyond. Email tips to steerpike@spectator.co.uk.

SNP members slam Swinney’s support of Kamala

7 November 2024 12:35 am

It’s not been First Minister John Swinney’s year. Not only did his Westminster group fail fantastically at the July poll…

Six Brits who had a bad election night

6 November 2024 9:28 pm

So Donald Trump is heading for the White House once again. It’s a result that has stunned much of the…

Watch: Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell baffled by Trump’s victory

6 November 2024 5:04 pm

Donald Trump is on course to win the US election – and it’s safe to say that Rory Stewart and…

Five of Labour’s worst Trump attacks

6 November 2024 12:45 am

The countdown is on, with just days left until the result of the US presidential election is announced. With pollsters…

Farage: Reform membership has surged since Badenoch win

5 November 2024 9:37 pm

At long last, the Tory leadership race concluded at the weekend after Kemi Badenoch was crowned victor on Saturday. But…

Gamblers are putting their money on a Trump triumph

5 November 2024 8:35 pm

It’s polling day across the pond and Steerpike is keen to have a flutter. Opinion polling in the US election…

Scots revealed to be biggest Trump fans in western Europe

5 November 2024 4:00 am

In a rather surprising development, it transpires that Scottish people are Donald Trump’s biggest fans in Europe. A Norstat poll…

Labour’s tuition fee U-turn

5 November 2024 2:14 am

Dear oh dear. It now transpires that Starmer’s army will increase university fees in line with inflation from September next…

Guardian removes Israeli whisky reference

5 November 2024 12:24 am

Well, well, well. It seems that the Guardian, the self-proclaimed bastion of ‘clarity and imagination’, has been acting rather censoriously…

Watch: Home Secretary flounders over small boats

4 November 2024 10:08 pm

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot are desperate to get the press and public talking about anything but the Budget this…

Southport suspect: A timeline of what was said and when 

4 November 2024 5:51 pm

Three months after the Southport attack in July, suspect Axel Rudakubana was this week charged with two new fresh offences.…

Michal Caine turns on Labour’s taxes

4 November 2024 5:51 pm

Taxes, thousands of ’em! In her bid to alienate the bulk of the British electorate, it seems that Rachel Reeves…

What will Robert Jenrick do next?

4 November 2024 7:23 am

Poor old Robert Jenrick. He has spent eleven gruelling months touring associations, existing on a diet of Ozempic and rubber-chicken,…

Will Dawn Butler lose the whip?

4 November 2024 3:06 am

With his super-majority in the Commons, Keir Starmer isn’t afraid of losing the odd MP or two. Back in July…

Labour’s embarrassing Badenoch blunder

3 November 2024 5:51 am

So Kemi Badenoch is the new leader of the opposition. How best should Labour respond? One person who has shown…

Revealed: Tory membership falls by almost a quarter in two years

3 November 2024 12:16 am

Will the last person to leave the Tory party please turn out the lights? After an exodus of Conservative MPs…

Truss blasts ‘dishonest’ Sunak on his last day

2 November 2024 9:07 pm

Happy Tory leadership results day! Much like teenagers collecting their A-levels, there will be plenty of tears, cheers and multiple…

Tories overtake Labour in Sunak’s final poll

2 November 2024 6:58 am

It’s Rishi Sunak’s final week as Tory leader, but should he be asked to carry on? On Wednesday he charmed…

Reform warns Starmer of ‘national crisis’ over immigration data

2 November 2024 1:31 am

One of the key issues at play in this year’s July election was the matter of immigration. Sir Keir Starmer…

Has Labour given up on the City?

2 November 2024 12:25 am

It seems that the Budget isn’t going down terribly well in the City. Ministers have been out on the airwaves,…

Labour’s by-election nightmare

2 November 2024 12:03 am

Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour party has not had the easiest time in government so far – and last night’s local…

Watch: Darren Jones admits Budget will hit working people

1 November 2024 8:36 pm

Well, well, well. It’s day three of the Budget and it appears that Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement has begun to…

China hawks hit back at Lammy rapprochement

1 November 2024 3:42 am

First, it was the Chagos Islands. Then it was David Lammy’s visit. Now many in Westminster are asking: when it…

Treasury staff leave a mess after Budget tax hikes

1 November 2024 3:07 am

For most Brits, there was little to celebrate in Rachel Reeves’s fiscal statement – but that didn’t stop Treasury staff…

Businessman tears up over Labour’s Budget

1 November 2024 2:58 am

The first full day post-Budget has not been a happy one. While Labour’s spinners are hard at work trying to…