Why attempts to cut red tape almost always fail
Rishi Sunak has been appointed to chair a new committee that will be tasked with cutting red tape, particularly anything…
Tony Blair is deluding himself on a 'De Gaulle-style comeback'
Tony Blair has made a tentative return to the heart of British politics by offering Matt Hancock strategic advice on…
How the Brexit deal demonstrates Boris Johnson’s genius
I have never cared for Boris Johnson as a politician. Despite that, I voted for him twice as London mayor.…
Boris now faces a terrible choice over Brexit
Ten thousand lorries usually travel through the port of Dover in the run-up to Christmas. Now, Dover is completely shut.…
Boris Johnson has allowed himself to be snookered by the EU
The UK-EU trade negotiations have heated up again, albeit from a very cold state. Boris seems to have conceded ground…
No deal won't 'get Brexit done'
Brexit talks between the two sides are deadlocked. Boris Johnson’s latest bid to ‘divide and conquer’ – pledging to visit Paris…
Ideological purity is a grave threat to the Tory party
One of the main reasons why the centre-right has been in the political ascendancy across the western world over the…
Why Boris should go for no deal
Boris Johnson has negotiated his way into a corner. With the naïve view that the EU would eventually buckle and…
Why Boris, not Rishi, will lead the Tories into the next election
Some Tory MPs are hoping that Dominic Cummings’ departure from Downing Street will bring with it a vital lift to…
Keir Starmer can never allow Jeremy Corbyn to return
Keir Starmer had no control over whether to end the suspension of Jeremy Corbyn after only 19 days. Yet it…
Keir Starmer should welcome a Labour party split
‘A split party will be doomed to defeat,’ says Len McCluskey, with a hint of threat. The left of Labour…
Boris Johnson is fighting on too many fronts
When Boris ran to become leader of the Conservative party – and again when he campaigned in December’s general election…
What does Boris Johnson's Tory party stand for?
The main thing to say about Boris Johnson’s speech at this year’s online Tory conference is that it captures the…
Are all political parties destined to fail?
We seem to be entering another era of political party expansion. There’s Laurence Fox’s new party, not to mention the…
The Tories have missed Starmer's Achilles heel
The main Tory attack on Starmer since he became leader of the Labour party is that he is ‘too much…
A second lockdown would be a disaster for Boris
Could Britain be heading for a second lockdown? Boris Johnson says his government is doing ‘everything in our power’ to prevent…
Farage could still come back to haunt the Tories on Brexit
Some Tory MPs are worried about a strategy that the party is apparently seriously considering adopting at the next general…
Ripping up the Withdrawal Agreement is a big mistake
Like most things Brexit related, it depends on who you believe. The EU is concerned over the announcement that the…
Extinction Rebellion's newspaper stunt has backfired badly
I believe that halting and if we can, reversing man-made climate change is one of the most important challenges facing…
Is Boris pushing for a socialist Brexit?
One of the main things that’s holding up an UK-EU trade deal is the demand that the UK sticks to current…
Ed Davey can make the Lib Dems liberal again
It seems as though Layla Moran’s offer to make the Lib Dems ‘more radical than Labour’ has been decisively rejected.…
Why Keir Starmer no longer needs to fear the left of his party
John McDonnell, Corbyn’s right hand man for four and a half years, was full of praise when asked about the…
Keir Starmer would be wise to avoid a Lib Dem alliance
The myth that is developing goes like this: Labour can’t win enough seats to form a majority government at the…
Layla Moran will kill off the Lib Dems. But I still want her to win
Make no mistake: Layla Moran’s Lib Dem leadership platform is terrible. She wants to scrap Ofsted, stop publishing league tables of…
Is it time for the Lib Dems to merge with Labour?
Voting opens this week for Lib Dem members to choose the next leader of their party. One figure has overwhelmingly…
