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Reform’s Farage poll bounce spells trouble for the Tories
‘I’m back’. Nigel Farage’s two-word tweet on Monday heralded the return of one of Westminster’s great celebrities. Barely 48 hours…
The Nigel Farage milkshaking is no laughing matter
Emerging from a pub after his campaign launch in Clacton yesterday afternoon, Nigel Farage was milkshaked. A 25-year-old woman has been charged with assault by…
Alex Salmond’s Alba party isn’t serious about the general election
In the second-floor room of a building on Tufton Street, Scotland’s former first minister Alex Salmond delivered a press conference…
Can Begona Gomez get a fair trial in Spain?
Begona Gomez, the wife of Spain’s Socialist prime minister Pedro Sanchez, has received a court summons for 5 July, in connection with…
Labour is paying the price for Starmer’s failure to refute the £2,000 tax claim
The Tories have had their first good 24 hours of the election campaign. The £2,000 tax claim made by Rishi…
Tory favourites enjoy mixed success in safe seats
Claims of stitch-ups in seat selections are as old as the Tory party itself. But the chaotic nature of this…
On Sunak’s maths, Tories will lift taxes by £3,000 per household
My colleague Ross Clark has shown how the Tories cooked up that £2,000 figure. They worked out the total cost of what…
The activists’ war on book festivals spells disaster for authors
Touring the country’s literary festivals as an author isn’t glamorous. Like travelling salesmen, we get into our cars or board…
The truth about Labour’s fiscal black hole
It is small wonder that Treasury officials are unhappy about Conservative claims about Labour tax rises being attributed to them.…
Nigel Farage is turning the screws on the Tories
He’s back. After months of teasing and indecision, Nigel Farage launched himself fully into the fray of yet another election…
Don’t get rid of VAR!
The Premier League’s 20 football clubs will vote tomorrow on whether to scrap video assistant referee (VAR) technology. Five years…
Is Labour really plotting a £2,000 tax grab?
Is the Labour party planning a £2,000 tax grab on households? That was Rishi Sunak’s main message last night during…
Listen: Ashworth slams Sunak’s debate ‘lies’
Well, well, well. The gloves are coming off as election campaigns ramp up. Both Conservative and Labour politicians have launched…
How the culture war came for Kenwood Ladies’ Pond
‘Not another step!’ The large women in an old T shirt stretched across her bulging shoulders glared at my father.…
Education has all but disappeared from the election debate
More than 25 years ago, when I was setting up the Sutton Trust, the leader of the opposition, a fresh-faced…
Will South Africa’s unemployed rise up?
Beginning in the year 2000, Robert Mugabe began snatching white-owned farms for ‘redistribution’ and giving them to the black majority…
The political appropriation of D-Day
If there is one place to avoid this week it is Normandy. The global elite are in town to commemorate…
How the Tories created Nigel Farage
Conventional Conservative wisdom once warned about the dangers of appeasement. Rudyard Kipling, the great poet of imperialism, may be the…
Sunak’s scrappy style worked, but he fought on a false premise
‘Gentlemen, please’, said Julie Etchingham, over and over again, as she chaired this ITV debate. She had given Rishi Sunak and…
Starmer will win the election, but Sunak won the debate
Full disclosure: I went into the ITV election debate wanting and expecting Sir Keir Starmer to walk all over Rishi…
Why Biden is ‘toughening up’ on the border
With “Securing Our Borders” signs behind him, President Joe Biden announced this afternoon that he’d sign an executive order to…
Biden acts on the border… sort of… maybe
The contrast between the two parties on illegal immigration couldn’t be sharper. Donald Trump erected a wall. Joe Biden erected…
Can anti-Trump billboards from Republicans sway voters?
Cockburn was driving down I-95 this weekend when he was suddenly accosted by Donna R., an elderly woman with a…
‘Livid’ ex-Labour candidate resigns from party
Another day, another drama. Labour has been thrown back into the spotlight after deselected candidate Faiza Shaheen today announced her…
The humbling of Narendra Modi
There was never really any serious doubt that India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, would win a historic third term in…
