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A bluffer’s guide to (yet another) Tory leadership race
Here we go again – another leadership contest, another round of intense Westminster blather. Lightweight would-be commentators may feel their…
How nice it must be to sack incompetent leaders
Liz Truss has resigned after only forty-five days in office, the shortest serving prime minister in British history. She’s long…
Is this the end of the Conservatives?
Nothing, not even the world’s oldest and most successful political party, lasts forever. So could the current crisis convulsing the…
Ben Sasse gets trapped between MAGA and woke academia
The 2022 midterm elections are less than a month away. And while the focus will be on the winners and…
Runners and riders for next Tory PM
Well, that’s that. The disastrous premiership of Liz Truss will come to an end next week after 52 days in…
The metrics that will decide the next PM’s fate
Gone in a flash, Liz Truss becomes the shortest serving prime minister in British history. As it stands, she’s 75…
Who was George Canning? (1973)
Until Liz Truss, George Canning was the shortest-serving prime minister. He needn’t be forgotten by pub quizzers, general knowledge collectors and…
What happens to the Tory party now?
Liz Truss is not quite the shortest-serving prime minister in history. George Cunning has that prize because he died while…
How Truss’s resignation moved the markets
If anyone was expecting markets to be in jubilant mood after Liz Truss’s resignation, they will be feeling a little…
Why Liz Truss had to go
The Liz Truss survival plan was, in the end, unworkable. She not only hired her enemies – Grant Shapps and Jeremy…
Who's backing whom? Boris leads the field
We will have a new prime minister within a week. Boris Johnson leads the way. Read the full list of who’s…
‘The ultimate death match’: Will it be Boris vs Rishi?
It will take 100 MP nominations to qualify for the next Tory leadership race and the clock is ticking –…
After Truss, who?
Sir Graham Brady has just given a statement outside the St Stephen’s entrance of parliament. The chair of the 1922…
Why I resigned as Prime Minister
I came into office at a time of great economic and international instability. Families and businesses were worried about how…
Liz Truss resigns
Liz Truss has just announced that she will be stepping down as Prime Minister. Forty-four days into her premiership, Truss…
These midterms are like a campy Eighties movie
Last week, the Democrats cut an ad accusing Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz of murdering puppies. I know it…
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…
A brief history of Tory rebellion
One hundred years ago, on 19 October 1922, Conservative MPs gathered at the Carlton Club. There was only one subject…
Commons chaos as the Tories fall apart
The government chaos continues. On Wednesday morning, Tory MPs were told that Labour’s motion to force a vote on a…
Kill the Bill!
The more you study what is going on with the Just Stop Oil protests and the Public Order Bill, the…
Why Gen X is the Trumpiest generation
Republican fortunes are again on the upswing as the 2022 midterm elections loom. A series of Biden administration legislative wins…
Government wins fracking vote amid chaos
The government won tonight’s vote on fracking but it truly was a Pyrrhic victory. On paper, the numbers involved –…
Why I had to resign
Dear Prime Minister, It is with the greatest regret that I am choosing to tender my resignation. Earlier today, I…
Tsar Vladimir brings in martial law
Martial law can arrive with a bang: tanks on the streets, Swan Lake on the TV. It can also creep…
How the British helped JFK navigate the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Atlantic alliance hasn’t always been quite as special as politicians on both sides of the sea like to pretend.…
