Patrick O’Flynn

Boris Johnson won’t help Sunak win back the Red Wall

12 March 2024 9:24 pm

What are we to make of today’s rather breathless story in the the Times suggesting that Boris Johnson will make…

Why Starmer shouldn’t celebrate Lee Anderson’s Reform defection

12 March 2024 1:37 am

Lee Anderson joining Reform UK is unquestionably a disaster for Rishi Sunak. It will guarantee the challenger party huge coverage…

Only Nigel Farage can save us now

9 March 2024 6:00 pm

When the Prime Minister cannot be bothered to listen to the Budget it sends out a pretty big signal to…

Can the Tories avoid oblivion?

2 March 2024 5:30 pm

Another day, another terrible poll for the Tories – the latest YouGov survey records support for the parties at Labour…

Keir Starmer must stand up to George Galloway

1 March 2024 8:33 pm

George Galloway has done it again. As an expert in riding waves of fury among Muslim voters about happenings in…

Why is the BBC not telling the full truth about a trans cat-killing murderer?

27 February 2024 5:15 pm

Given that the BBC places great store in having a ‘Verify’ unit to root out fake news emanating from other…

The Lee Anderson row shows the Tory party has broken down

26 February 2024 12:34 am

What are we to make of the Lee Anderson saga? The very fact that this low-rent furore is dominating our Sunday…

Lindsay Hoyle has become a menace

22 February 2024 3:12 am

The Labour party is not very good at electing prime ministers but it is very good indeed at electing House…

The Tories should be worried about Reform

16 February 2024 7:17 pm

And with one bound he was free. In fact let’s make that two. A pair of whopping by-election wins in…

Rishi Sunak’s week of howlers has exposed his big weakness

10 February 2024 6:00 pm

It is quite some achievement to launch an attack on Keir Starmer’s contortions over trans rights versus women’s rights and…

Christians are being played for fools in asylum claims

5 February 2024 11:47 pm

It came as quite a shock when we learned that many of our universities had moved into the lucrative trade…

Tory MPs must share the blame with Sunak for the party’s troubles

28 January 2024 6:15 pm

Rishi Sunak is a drab technocrat mired in a failed political paradigm and with a tin ear for public opinion.…

Clarke’s bid to oust Sunak has flopped – for now

24 January 2024 8:19 pm

It was ‘the knife of the long knight’, joked one social media wag about the bid by the unfeasibly tall…

The damning poll that could inspire Tories to move against Sunak

15 January 2024 9:16 pm

The debate about whether Rishi Sunak’s Tories are heading for a 1992-style against-the-odds narrow election win or a 1997-style landslide…

Keir Starmer says it best when he says nothing at all

7 January 2024 5:30 pm

There is a modern country music standard called ‘When You Say Nothing At All’. The song, taken to the top…

Will Nigel Farage team up with the Tories?

30 December 2023 11:00 am

How is the idea that Nigel Farage might join the ‘broad church’ Conservative party going then? Given that he floated…

The Tories’ only hope is tax cuts

27 December 2023 10:00 pm

In the old days, when the Conservatives were chalking up opinion poll ratings in the forties, their strategists knew they…

Rishi’s rule will end with a whimper, not a bang

23 December 2023 5:40 pm

That best-selling 1970s toy Action Man proved the power of evolution. First, the painted hair on the initial models was…

Rishi Sunak will never stop the boats

13 December 2023 5:42 pm

Do not let the relatively comfortable margin of victory for the Rwanda Bill’s second reading fool you: we have now…

Jenrick’s resignation is a turning point for the Tory party

7 December 2023 8:58 am

When he found out that a career-minded MP called Rishi Sunak had come out in favour of leaving the EU,…

Suella Braverman’s deadly warning for the PM

7 December 2023 3:44 am

While it would be unfair to suggest that Tory MPs only care about holding onto their seats at the next…

Why didn’t Sunak listen to Braverman’s migration warning?

5 December 2023 9:28 pm

Conventional wisdom about politics isn’t quite always wrong: it is merely shown by the passage of events to have been…

Newsnight doomed itself

30 November 2023 9:36 pm

Whither Newsnight? Or do I mean wither, Newsnight – shortly to be reduced to a 30-minute debate show shorn of…

Sunak doesn’t realise the trouble he’s in on immigration

28 November 2023 11:43 pm

As they headed into the autumn, Rishi Sunak and the Conservatives needed a gamechanger. Their gradual recovery in the polls…

Will Farage return to haunt the Tories?

25 November 2023 10:01 pm

The rise of Ukip and the highway to Brexit was greatly smoothed by the widespread perception that British governments had…