What the Tories should learn from Trump
Robert Jenrick has warned that he is ‘absolutely terrified’ Britain is heading for a debt crisis ‘unless Rachel Reeves changes…
Winston, Windsor and ‘private time’: inside Trump’s state visit
The first time Donald Trump was on an official visit to the UK, in July 2018, he was deep in…
Kemi Badenoch has a sliver of hope
I can’t remember when I last wrote anything as reckless, but the last week has been a good one for…
‘He’s like a passive-aggressive Gordon Brown’: inside Keir Starmer’s No.10 reshuffle
Isaac Levido, the Tory election strategist who helped secure Boris Johnson’s landslide victory in 2019 and saved the Tories from…
Robert Jenrick: ‘Asylum seekers should be detained in camps’
On a table in Robert Jenrick’s parliamentary office lies the first part of Ronald Hutton’s biography of Oliver Cromwell, a…
The scale of Nigel Farage’s ambition
When Nigel Farage stands up this afternoon to deliver his speech to Reform UK’s annual conference in Birmingham he will…
Can Reform beat the blob?
Shortly after he was elected as Britain’s youngest council leader last month, 19-year-old George Finch of Reform UK had a…
Motherland: how Farage is winning over women
On the campaign trail in the Midlands ahead of May’s local elections, a journalist asked Nigel Farage: ‘Do you have…
The asylum hotel crisis will cost Labour
Yvette Cooper doesn’t do holidays, which is probably just as well since she is the minister who, this summer, holds…
Can anything stop Reform?
A close associate of Nigel Farage received phone calls from three civil servants in the past week, asking how they…
‘Let Keir be Keir’: inside the cabinet’s away day
Labour ministers face a range of terrible political choices, but when the cabinet met for an away day at Chequers…
The reign of Rayner
Angela Rayner declined an invitation to a hen do last weekend where the entertainment included axe-throwing. ‘She was worried about…
Can Starmer convince the French to finally sign a migrant deal?
Emmanuel Macron, the French president, hits town today. It’s Macron’s first state visit to the UK and the first by…
Norman Tebbit was a proper politician
Norman Tebbit, who has died at the age of 94, was one of the dominant political figures of my youth.…
Can Keir Starmer fend off Labour’s big beasts?
It was the chronicle of a death foretold. Last year Keir Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, drafted a memo…
Revealed: Morgan McSweeney’s memo to the PM on how Labour could fail
In this week’s cover story, I revealed details of a memo written by Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief of…
‘It’s Liz Truss territory’: how bad are things for Kemi Badenoch?
Around 5 p.m. on Monday one of Kemi Badenoch’s aides was having a drink with a friend in the Two…
Why has a leak inquiry been launched into Hermer’s legal advice?
I have now been told by four people in government that a leak inquiry is being conducted into the revelations…
Starmer’s war zone: the Prime Minister is in a perilous position
Sir Keir Starmer was alerted in the early hours of Friday by his national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, that Israel’s…
Hyper-history: why did politics go crazy?
On the day Theresa May signed her Brexit withdrawal agreement with Brussels, Dominic Raab, the Brexit secretary, resigned. She tried…
Brexit: how to make a TV drama out of a crisis
I spent a bit of time last week on the set of the new Brexit film, which James Graham has…
Brexit’s breaking points
Trying to write the first draft of history on the EU referendum and the leader-ship mess that followed had both…
