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…
Who dares, wins? Not Michael Gove
Michael Gove has just announced he is standing down at the election. He spent the past few days agonising privately…
Sunak hints at why he opted for a snap summer election
There is no good answer to the question of why Rishi Sunak called the general election for 4 July, other…
If only Starmer had answered his own questions at PMQs
Is Rishi Sunak going to announce the election date later today? Speculation was – once again – so rife that…
Can the Tories ensure the infected blood scandal never happens again?
Are the compensation payments announced today for victims of the infected blood scandal a just response to what happened? Paymaster…
Sunak apologises during ‘day of shame’
Rishi Sunak’s Commons apology for the contaminated blood scandal was reasonably comprehensive. The statement opened with him saying he wanted…
Will the NHS change after the infected blood scandal?
The victims of the infected blood scandal have had to wait a very long time for there to be a…
MPs demand a rethink on mental illness
Given so many people are suffering from some kind of mental distress at the moment, many of them out of…
The NHS’s maternity care has always been a mess
The latest report on maternity care in the UK hasn’t told us anything new. The headline finding of the parliamentary…
Elphicke defection baffles Tories at PMQs
If Natalie Elphicke’s defection had much of an effect on the mood of Tory MPs at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions,…
Parliament’s Rafah rage
It’s been a while since the Commons has had so much anger in it as it did during the urgent…
Jeremy Hunt snaps at Rachel Reeves over National Insurance
Rachel Reeves may have been getting attention for her accusation that the government is ‘gaslighting’ the public over the state…
Tories aren’t panicking – they expected a drubbing
Unsurprisingly, the overnight results from the local elections have been very bruising for the Conservatives. Local election results day is…
Do Tory MPs really believe Rishi Sunak can win the election?
Could Rishi Sunak be about to win the next general election? That suggestion, made at Prime Minister’s Questions today by…
