Keir Starmer has let slip the truth about his plan to abolish the Lords
Can a political leader keep getting exposed for conveying obvious untruths and yet be judged a fit person to occupy…
Let’s not follow Boris down his path as ‘Britain’s Trump’
The Commons privileges committee report into the conduct of Boris Johnson is completely damning. All the kerfuffle about whether the…
What does Boris’s resignation mean for Rishi?
Such is Boris Johnson’s magnetic draw that his resignation gambit is still being discussed largely in terms of what it…
The truth about Boris Johnson’s ‘betrayal’ myth
These are testing times indeed for longstanding members of the ‘Boris Johnson is nothing like Donald Trump’ fraternity. Once again, the…
Brexiteers, calm down. Brexit has not been betrayed
Being a Brexiteer these days is like being Kenneth Williams playing Julius Caesar in Carry On Cleo. Far too often…
Will Rishi Sunak ever deliver on his ‘stop the boats’ pledge?
When Rishi Sunak replaced Liz Truss in Downing Street last autumn, fundamentalism gave way to incrementalism. So far, the results…
Immigration is an existential threat for Rishi Sunak
Rishi Sunak’s pet theory that voters are relaxed about the level of legal immigration – so long as the government…
The misdirected talent of Mizzy, the ‘TikTok terror’
Tessa Jowell once ignited a furious political row by claiming that inner-city youths active in criminal gangs were exhibiting a…
When will the Tories come clean on their migration plan?
Net annual immigration – which successive Tory manifestos promised the electorate would be brought down below 100,000 – has just…
Sunak can’t afford to lose Braverman
Back in the early days of the Blair governments, Alastair Campbell was reputed to have a rule for resignations: once…
Are the Tories finally getting serious on tackling illegal migration?
Something significant happened in Westminster yesterday. The Immigration Minister made a speech which showed a thorough understanding of the damage…
Rishi Sunak knows the Tory rebels are right about small boats
When the Rwanda migrant removals programme was torpedoed by a European judge at a hastily-convened hearing one evening last summer,…
Rishi Sunak’s immigration delusion
Few observers of politics can by now be in much doubt about the defective nature of Keir Starmer’s antennae when…
Labour is right: the Tories are soft on law and order
The spouse of one of Britain’s major party leaders would be forgiven for feeling both queasy and furious about Labour’s…
Britain deserves better than Keir Starmer’s opportunism
A few weeks ago, Keir Starmer was told by his advisers that he would have to U-turn on his radical…
No wonder some Remainers are unhappy about the UK joining the CPTPP
The United Kingdom has become a member of a free trade bloc embracing 500 million consumers. And it isn’t the…
The plan to house migrants on barges could soon come unstuck
Frank Sinatra once sang about the seductive properties of bright and shiny ephemera. ‘Her heart will sing, singa-linga, wearing baubles,…
Is it game over for Boris Johnson?
I don’t know about you, but it’s getting rather tiresome for me now. The Boris Johnson saga, that is. Did…
The triumph of Gary Lineker is a disaster for the BBC
The BBC-based sitcom W1A centred on a running joke about how the spinelessness and ineptitude of senior management led them…
Lineker’s solidarity strikers could speed up the end of the licence fee
I never expected staff at an entire department of the BBC to put their shoulders to the wheel of the…
Rishi Sunak seems serious about stopping the Channel boats
So long as the extensive pre-briefing of the Illegal Migration Bill turns out to be a reasonably accurate reflection of…
Theresa May is the true villain in this latest Tory Brexit war
The blond bombshell has criticised Sunak’s new Windsor Framework as not passing the Brexit test of taking back control. He’s…
Britain’s borders have become a joke
Were anyone still in doubt about the wholesale abuse of our asylum system by would-be economic migrants then the ever-changing…
Zahawi’s sacking could be Sunak’s ‘John Major moment’
It is a very dangerous time to be a Conservative MP and not just because the party is trailing by…
The Tories are tired of Boris’s ceaseless scandals
The political world splits in two whenever fresh evidence emerges that Boris Johnson does not think that life’s rules and…
