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The Tories are a danger only to each other
On Monday night the Conservatives announced the rules of the party’s leadership contest. The reaction in Labour circles was incredulity…
Who will lead the Tories next?
Rishi Sunak performed a mea culpa when his shadow cabinet convened on Monday, taking full responsibility for the election loss.…
Letters: what Biden and Ronaldo have in common
True conservatism Sir: Douglas Murray claims that the Conservative party ‘will need to have some people who are actually right-wing’…
Why was Jeremy Hunt SHOUTING AT ME?
Robert Jenrick, once immigration minister and still, just, MP for Newark, said on Sunday that the Tories lost not because…
What did the Tories do with power?
Fourteen years of Tory-led government is over. The second-longest period of dominance by one party since the war is done.…
History will judge Rishi Sunak kindly
Memorably sweeping statements tripping easily from the tongue have a habit of worming their way into assumptions we make and…
Labour’s Potemkin landslide
So far, something pretty big is missing from Labour’s historic landslide: voters. Keir Starmer is set to win 64 per…
What’s the worst that can happen for the Tories?
When Rishi Sunak stunned his cabinet colleagues by calling a snap election, they feared the worst. Fast forward a month…
Sunak’s manifesto is not credible
Rishi Sunak’s manifesto launch was necessarily defensive: the Prime Minister is trying to stem the losses in this election campaign…
Portrait of the Week: Farage returns, Abbott reselected and Trump guilty
Home Nigel Farage took over leadership of the Reform party from Richard Tice and is standing for parliament in Clacton.…
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 problem with Sunak’s migrant cap
It is perhaps no accident that Rishi Sunak has rushed out his proposal for a cap on migrant workers and…
Who will survive to lead the Tories?
In spite of his conviction for falsifying business records, Donald Trump is still expected by many to make a remarkable…
Sunak: let’s bring back national service
The first big new policy announcement of the election campaign is in from the Tories, and it’s likely to be…
The smoking ban will be back
Has Rishi Sunak’s surprise summer election spared Britain some nanny state interventions? At first glance it seemed so, as it…
Michael Gove leads the Tory exodus
When Rishi Sunak told cabinet colleagues about his decision to call a general election, Michael Gove sought to raise spirits…
Will there be a summer election?
It’s less than a fortnight till the local elections where Rishi Sunak will face his last major electoral test before…
Is Cameron upstaging Sunak?
The logic behind Rishi Sunak’s decision to make David Cameron foreign secretary was that he would be a ‘big beast’…
English civil law has become a luxury good beyond the reach of most of us
Tom Burgis makes this painfully clear in his account of the long hounding of the former MP Charlotte Leslie by the vengeful millionaire Mohamed Amersi
Dowden: UK position on arms sales to Israel ‘has not changed’
Dowden: UK position on arms sales to Israel ‘has not changed’ Israel and Hamas are expected to hold a new…
The Tories are resigned to an almighty defeat
The herd of Conservative MPs is on the move again, this time obediently setting off towards the abattoir in which…
Could Sadiq Khan lose London?
With Labour 20 points ahead in the national polls, a lot of Tories have already written off next month’s mayoral…
Will Sunak renege on ‘foreign powers’ owning newspapers?
Last week, a rebellion in the Lords drew a government pledge to ban foreign governments and their proxies from owning…
Hunt: Tories will keep the triple lock on pensions
Jeremy Hunt: Russian government creating a ‘smokescreen of propaganda’ On Friday night, a terrorist attack at a large concert in…
