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Jess Phillips’s resignation will be particularly painful for Starmer
All three of the resignation letters from ministers who have quit government in the past couple of hours will be…
Keir Starmer is done
This morning’s cabinet meeting was one for the ages. At 9.30 a.m., British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was greeted by…
Louise Haigh’s economic plan would hasten Britain’s decline
The government is on the brink of collapse, ministers are openly fighting for the succession, and the bond vigilantes are…
Keir Starmer’s ‘chaos’ hypocrisy
It’s fair to say the reset speech didn’t quite do the trick. As the number of Labour MPs calling on…
Andy Burnham is no saviour
The outcome of the Prime Minister’s make-or-break speech yesterday morning was never really in any doubt, was it? It’s break.…
Could Reform take Greater Manchester?
As the Prime Minister’s reset speech seems to have failed to reassure Labour MPs, all eyes are once again on…
Mary Seacole is celebrated for all the wrong reasons
Florence Nightingale, born in Florence on this day in 1820, made her world measurably better. She counted the dead until…
Joe Biden’s memoir will humiliate him
Just before writing this piece, I saw Gary Oldman in a London production of Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape. For…
Why non-Jews didn’t come to the Extinguish Antisemitism rally
The internecine fights before the Extinguish Antisemitism rally in Whitehall are typical of British Jews, who tend to only speak…
Keir Starmer’s position is looking increasingly untenable
Things are moving very fast in Westminster this evening. More than 60 Labour MPs are publicly calling on the Prime…
The charts that show Angela Rayner is wrong about Britain
Reality Check verdict: the wrong prescription Yesterday, Angela Rayner called for a path to be cleared for Andy Burnham to…
Ministers ponder resignation
More than 50 backbenchers have now called for Sir Keir Starmer to resign, despite his rousing rallying cry for unity…
Burnham backer’s hypocrisy revealed
‘Would you give up your seat for him?’ On #BBCBreakfast Labour MP Paula Barker said Keir Starmer needs to step…
BBC Verify’s greatest hits
BBC Verify is in retreat. Last June the Beeb launched the ‘Verify Live blog’ as part of its push for…
How dangerous is the cruise ship hantavirus?
Virologists, the imaginative bunch that we are, often name new viruses after the places they were first found. Zika virus…
Keir Starmer’s ‘reset’ was just more slop
I wish I’d invested in lecterns back in the day. They have become a fixture of British politics of late,…
Labour’s Catherine West moves against Starmer
Labour MP Catherine West today accelerated her campaign to move out of the ‘random backbencher’ club and towards becoming a…
The trouble with Gordon Brown
When Keir Starmer needed advice about clinging to power in Downing Street, there was only one person to call. Gordon…
The irony of the woke war on GCSE French
Not content to degrade and mangle the English language in their mission to make it conform to their progressive ideology,…
It’s all too late for Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer’s big survival speech could never be big enough to save him as Prime Minister. Whether he ends up…
The disturbing truth about Britain’s Islamopopulism movement
One of the under-reported stories of the local elections is the steady growth of Muslim independents. Including Lutfur Rahman’s Aspire…
The crass anti-politics of the Lib Dems
At Prime Minister’s Questions the other week, Ed Davey mildly chided Sir Keir for whipping his MPs on a privileges committee vote,…
Polanski exaggerates his CV (again)
While all eyes today rest squarely on Sir Keir Starmer and the will-he-won’t-he question of surviving a leadership coup, Mr…
Lewisham shows why Labour is doomed
One of the biggest shocks of the local elections was the result of the Lewisham mayoral race and council elections,…
Badenoch is the perfect Tory leader
Plenty of narratives can be pulled out of last Thursday’s elections. Labour’s shattered hold over its Northern and Welsh heartlands;…
