Is Labour’s ‘war on farmers’ cranking up a gear?
After a difficult year for No. 10, what better way to end it than by unveiling a nice package of…
Keir Starmer just declared war on the lobby
This evening, Downing Street has announced a major overhaul of the ‘lobby’ briefing system. Currently, accredited political reporters are invited…
Keir Starmer’s union woes just got worse
During the dying days of Rishi Sunak’s regime, Labour politicians liked to encourage the idea that a change of government…
Starmer’s liaison committee grilling revealed three things
Today’s liaison committee meeting was not one for the history books. It was a fairly lacklustre affair, with some of…
Will Keir still be Prime Minister in a year?
Keir Starmer will start the new year as he means to go on: by attempting to convince his troops that…
Farage and Bardella’s small boats pact
What will European politics look like in 2029? Nigel Farage is hoping that it resembles something like the pictures he…
Lammy’s jury reforms face an uphill battle
If you speak to Labour MPs about looming battles in the new year, most are quick to mention the elections…
The meaning of Lord Offord’s defection
Malcolm Offord has today quit Kemi Badenoch’s Conservatives to join Reform UK. The peer was unveiled at a press conference…
Will Robert Jenrick join Reform?
For more than a decade, Westminster has been obsessing about whether Nigel Farage will do a deal with the Tories.…
Lammy unveils plans to slash jury trials
David Lammy has this afternoon set out his plans in parliament to drastically reduce the use of jury trials in…
Starmer’s China policy seems stuck in the past
Prior to entering No. 10, Keir Starmer had little experience of foreign affairs. Yet in office, the subject has consumed…
Richard Hughes quits as OBR chairman
They think it’s all OBR – it is now. Political journalists should always be wary of that word ‘inevitable’. But…
Starmer defends Rachel Reeves over Budget ‘lies’
Much of Rachel Reeves’s Budget was unprecedented: the leaking, the speculation and the OBR accidentally uploading its details an hour…
Zack Polanski is the real winner of the Your Party conference
After two days of discord and division, Your Party has voted and it finally has a name – Your Party.…
Reeves’s ‘lying’ denials are only the start
Four days after a Budget is usually the time when it starts to unravel. Some within Labour see it as…
The ‘Your Party’ conference is a mess
It used to be said that the old Liberal party had so few MPs that they could fit in the…
Inside Reform’s £1 million Budget blitz
It can be difficult for challenger parties to make much of an impact on the Budget, with parliament designed to…
Rachel Reeves’s Klarna Budget: spend now, pay later
After the frenzy of the Commons, comes the poring over the fine print. Rachel Reeves’s Budget is being studied across…
Rachel Reeves is running out of excuses
The Chancellor addressed her backbench troops last night, ahead of Wednesday’s Budget. Rachel Reeves’ remarks sought to impress upon her…
Labour may have lost the countryside forever
Before the last election, Keir Starmer promised that his party’s relationship with the countryside would be ‘based on respect, on…
Reform’s Russia problem
Nigel Farage has had better afternoons. Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform UK in Wales, has just been sentenced…
How Nigel Farage would cut spending
At 94 per cent of GDP, UK government debt is the fourth highest among advanced European economies. With the tax…
Shabana Mahmood’s asylum reforms are a calculated risk
This afternoon, the Home Secretary will set out in the House of Commons her proposed reforms to the asylum system.…
Rachel Reeves rips up her Budget plans
With less than a fortnight to go until the Budget, it seems Rachel Reeves has performed an almighty U-turn. At…
Are the knives out for Keir Starmer?
A flurry of late-night media briefings have triggered a full blown crisis for Keir Starmer. Allies of the Prime Minister…
