When will Starmer see sense on small boats?
Labour’s approach to tackling the small boats crisis is based around a dichotomy so overly simplistic that it should not…
If Peter Mandelson can’t handle Trump, no one can
If Peter Mandelson is confirmed as our next ambassador to Washington there will be an outcry among swathes of both…
Is Starmer really proud of this rubber dinghy crackdown?
Hold the front page. The government may have finally smashed part of a people-smuggling gang, or as word-mangling Keir Starmer…
Farage should have been allowed to lay a wreath on Sunday
There was a cranky call doing the rounds online last week suggesting veterans should turn their backs on Sir Keir…
William Hague, Donald Trump and the lesson of Eric Morecambe
Never has there been a politician to have fallen so foul of the Eric Morecambe mistake of playing all the…
Will Trump listen to Starmer?
Here is a sign of how weak Keir Starmer’s relationship is with the new leader of the free world. Nigel…
Starmer’s plan to stop the boats is a comical gimmick
The shiny new Downing Street operation that has come into being since the departure of Sue Gray has decreed that…
Kemi Badenoch will face an exposed Keir Starmer
Kemi Badenoch could probably already have served a truncated term as prime minister had she made different choices. Back at…
Will there be a surprise in Rachel Reeves’s Budget?
Most chancellors pull a rabbit out of a hat during their Budget statements – something to delight their own MPs…
How the Tories changed their tune on Nigel Farage – and Reform
A year ago, the Reform party had an average poll rating of six per cent and was as good as…
The Tory leadership contest is Kemi Badenoch’s to lose
Were Kemi Badenoch not to be unveiled as the next Conservative party leader in a couple of weeks it would…
Britain’s lax immigration policy is making it an outlier
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has this week put out an official statement that could fairly be described…
The Tory leadership contest is Badenoch’s to lose
And then there were two. Either Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick will be the next Conservative leader. This is a…
The Tory heirs to Blair are no more
So the Conservative party is not going to try to become ‘more normal’ in the eyes of establishment centrists after…
How James Cleverly can stitch up the Tory leadership race
Today’s third round of MP voting in the Tory leadership race has given James Cleverly an almost perfect result. Not…
The case for – and against – James Cleverly
When is the best time to hit the front of a Tory leadership contest? In the final chain of the…
The demise of the Tory party has been greatly exaggerated
Something happened at the Conservative party conference today which suggested it is too soon to write off the democratic world’s most…
What Cleverly gets wrong about Sunak’s pledge to ‘stop the boats’
Back in the 1980s, the American business guru Tom Peters came up with the advice to companies to ‘under-promise and…
Could Badenoch blow it?
Fans of Frank Sinatra used to have a favourite saying when their hero was in his pomp: ‘It’s Frank’s world.…
How the Tories can bounce back
What will be Rishi Sunak’s political legacy, other than the terribly embarrassing thing that happened on July 4? Not free speech…
Keir Starmer has shown why the Tories will struggle against him
Keir Starmer gave a formidable speech to the Labour conference today. It was easily good enough to inspire the party’s…
Keir Starmer’s problems are of his own making
That nobody in Keir Starmer’s inner circle worked out that trashing his personal reputation for a hundred grand’s worth of…
How Robert Jenrick stole Kemi Badenoch’s thunder
Robert Jenrick appears on course to become leader of the Conservative party within a year of resigning from ministerial office…
Keir Starmer’s popularity delusion
All year Keir Starmer has been using a reassuring phrase about his inevitable Downing Street tenure in a bid to calm…
Keir Starmer can’t blame the Tories forever
Keir Starmer’s rose garden speech today should be seen as a companion piece to last month’s melodramatic Commons statement by…
