Did Reeves mislead voters over her chess prowess?
When it rains for Rachel Reeves, it pours. This time it isn’t revelations about the now-Chancellor’s apparently plagiarised book or…
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor could face MP grilling
Oh dear. It seems that the horror never ends for the Andrew formally known as Prince. Mountbatten-Windsor – as he…
Watch: Jenrick rips into ‘Lammy dodger’
It is David Lammy’s big announcement on juries today – so that means another outing for the Tory Trident, Robert…
OBR probe reveals leak had happened before
Well, well, well. The official review of the leaked Budget documents that circulated last Wednesday ahead of Rachel Reeves’s fiscal…
Tulip Siddiq handed two-year sentence in Bangladesh
All is not well in Labour party at present. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has spent the morning defending his Chancellor…
Jonathan Gullis defects to Reform
Another one bites the dust. Now it transpires that the onetime deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, Jonathan Gullis, has…
Cabinet ministers turn on Reeves
Oh dear. It seems that Rachel Reeves’ Sunday media round has done nothing to answer questions about whether she misled…
Fact check: are the NYT’s experts right about UK immigration?
Yesterday’s release of immigration figures by the ONS didn’t make for particularly pleasant reading. While net migration had fallen to…
Starmer faces Labour rebellion over employment U-turn
Another day, another drama. On Thursday afternoon, it emerged that Sir Keir Starmer’s government were rolling back their commitment to…
Reeves’s tax raid rocks Gibraltar
The Chancellor’s Budget may have gone down well with Labour backbenchers, but its ‘smorgasbord’ approach has managed to rather annoy…
OBR chief offers to quit over Budget chaos
As if the Labour lot hadn’t leaked enough ahead of Rachel Reeves’s big Budget announcement, a slip-up at the OBR…
Watch: Kemi Badenoch eviscerates Rachel Reeves
Kemi Badenoch had a head-start in preparing her response to Rachel Reeves’s Budget after this morning’s OBR leak. It was…
Watch: Labour MP’s bizarre Putin warning
To the Commons, where this afternoon parliamentarians have spent some time discussing the G20 and Ukraine. The Prime Minister updated…
Lammy to scrap jury trials in backlog crackdown
Under a shake-up of the legal system, it transpires that juries are to be scrapped in all cases except murder,…
Starmer apologises over banned TikTok dance
Of all the things the public might think Prime Minister Keir Starmer should apologise for, a TikTok dance is probably…
Two peers suspended over lobbying
To the House of Lords, where it transpires that two peers are to be suspended after they were deemed to…
Trump team warned over London’s Chinese super-embassy
So much for a simple Chinese takeaway. In his never-ending search for growth, Sir Keir Starmer has finally alighted on…
Coutinho: Net zero is perverse
Today saw The Spectator’s Energy Summit in full swing, with a variety of panels, debates and discussions about issues from…
Zack Polanski’s fantasy economics
Oh dear. Green leader Zack Polanski may have enticed thousands more voters to join his party with his eco-populist rhetoric,…
Tory chair links Reform badge to the Nazis
Ding ding ding! The gloves are coming off as tensions rise between the Conservatives and Reform UK. Tory party chairman…
Second MP quits Your Party
Another one bites the dust. Iqbal Mohamed has become the second Independent MP to quit the left-wing Your Party amid…
Ex-Reform Wales leader given jail time over bribery
News just in: the former leader of Reform UK in Wales has been handed a prison sentence of 10 and…
Will Starmer approve the Chinese super-embassy?
Well, well, well. Just days after MI5 alerted MPs and peers to Chinese espionage threats, it appears that Prime Minister…
Covid report: governments acted ‘too little, too late’
Back to the Covid inquiry, where chair Baroness Heather Hallett, has presented the findings of its report. The conclusions don’t…
Ex-Labour MP joins Greens
Zack Polanski’s Green party has experienced a membership boom in recent months, after the new leader was elected at the…
