Why is Mel Stride always doing the broadcast round?
It’s a day ending in ‘y’, so it must be time for Mel Stride to make one of his appearances…
Steve Baker speaks as though the Tories have already lost
It’s pretty unusual to hear a minister speaking during this election campaign: other than Mel Stride, the rest seem to…
Farage’s Putin comments could trip him up
‘You know what I am! I’m a fighter, I’m a warrior, I’m a campaigner. I stand up against big institutions…
Starmer looks slippery over Corbyn questions
It’s a measure of how weird the past few years in British politics have been that Keir Starmer’s claim that…
Sunak’s best Question Time moment also exposed his weakness
Tonight’s election Question Time programme was probably the best of the campaign in that it gave space for proper discussion…
Labour have treated Rosie Duffield terribly
Should a candidate feel forced to pull out of public hustings events because of concerns about their safety? No, of…
The Tory party’s sums don’t add up
There is, to put it mildly, a lack of candour in this election campaign when it comes to tax rises…
Starmer will keep shtum til 5 July
Tonight Keir Starmer took another look at Labour’s poll lead, threw caution to the wind, and revealed his radical plans…
Who is the real opposition to Labour now?
Nigel Farage tried to claim at the start of Thursday’s TV debate that Reform was the real threat to Keir…
Why Labour’s plans are so vague
Keir Starmer has deliberately pursued a strategy of revealing as little as possible, boasting today that his manifesto didn’t contain…
How will Labour fix a struggling NHS?
The latest NHS waiting figures are without question a problem for Rishi Sunak: they’re going up again for the first…
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…
Sunak splutters in BBC interview, but Starmer won’t do much better
Rishi Sunak has started to move on from his D-Day blunder. He probably won’t recover from the electoral damage he…
Douglas Ross resigns as Scottish Tory leader
Just when you thought this election campaign couldn’t get any more tumultuous, Douglas Ross has announced he will resign as…
Mordaunt’s debate strategy was to pretend Farage wasn’t there
How is it possible that a seven-way debate between the main parties in this election was more civilised than the…
Sunak apologises for leaving D-Day commemorations
Rishi Sunak has just apologised for missing the international D-Day event in Normandy to fly back early to the UK…
Alex Salmond: We are not splitting the SNP vote
Is Alex Salmond feasting on the misery of an SNP that, having hit its high watermark, is now having to…
Labour is breaking one of the last taboos in politics
Labour has decided to lean into the £2,000 tax hike claim by the Tories, and turn it into a row about lying.…
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…
Why are the Tories playing Farage’s game?
How should Rishi Sunak respond to the unwelcome insertion of Nigel Farage into the election campaign? The Prime Minister called…
Labour comes out of Scottish debate on top
There is a truism in British politics that things would be much more civil if there were more women in…
George Galloway: Labour is the ‘number one enemy’
George Galloway would be happy if his Workers’ Party of Britain denied Labour the chance of an outright majority at…
Kemi Badenoch isn’t alone in dodging the issue of social care
Elections aren’t just fights between the parties over policy. They also include conspiracies of silence where neither side will benefit…
Starmer’s safety-first campaign is backfiring
The problem with spending an election campaign saying as little new as possible is that it does leave a big…
Starmer’s ‘why Labour’ message needs to get slicker
Keir Starmer has been considerably less discombobulated by the election announcement than the party that made it, but he still…
