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

Of all the essential tasks facing Rishi Sunak when he became Prime Minister, bringing down the level of legal immigration…

Can the people around Rishi Sunak really be dim enough not to have anticipated that his reshuffle would go down…

There is no point in critics of our activist judiciary kicking off about today’s Supreme Court’s decision that the government’s…

So farewell then to the great realignment: Suella Braverman out of a great office of state and David Cameron back…

So Suella Braverman is going to get whacked then. One discerns this from the behaviour of senior ministers sent out…

Can Rishi Sunak still catch a break or has the plughole spiral of British politics now dragged him firmly into…

If prizes were dished out for saying what the unwashed and un-woke are thinking then Suella Braverman would be garlanded…

Margaret Thatcher was said to have once remarked that every prime minister needed a Willie. Given that humour was not…

Why are the Conservatives doing quite so badly? Smashed in two by-elections, dropping further in the polls, last days of…

Amid all the discussion in Tory circles about whether the next election will have more in common with the narrow…

Could our current record levels of immigration be a flash in the pan, a statistical spike brought about by the…

As a longstanding supporter of ancient over modern in the architecture stakes, it can only grieve me to see the…

Conference season 2023 is done and dusted, with punchy Wes Streeting having performed the final significant act yesterday via his…

What is Labour’s offer for Nigel Farage? Yes, you read that right. Of course, Keir Starmer’s party detests almost everything…

Were you a centre-right leader seeking the perfect person to condemn you for implementing a mildly populist measure then a…

The idea of the United Kingdom becoming an ‘associate member’ of the European Union is a non-starter because it would…

Labour’s long-awaited approach to stopping the Channel boats is so pusillanimous that it ought to be a political gamechanger for…

Next year’s general election could either be a 1992 or a 1997, commentators have speculated: a slender Tory win or…

The news is grim for supporters of Kemi Badenoch: our heroine has climbed to the top of the Conservative Home…

There is something curious about even the very modest degree of success the Prime Minister has been able to herald…

When a party’s own natural supporters decide they have good reason to turn against it then the writing is normally…

The metropolitan bohemian Withnail, played by Richard E Grant in the film Withnail & I, is so appalled by life…

Rishi Sunak has led voters to believe that his new Illegal Migration Act will mean no illegal migrants will be…

It has long been suggested by senior politicians from both main parties that civil servants in the Home Office pick…