Sacking Suella could sink Sunak
If prizes were dished out for saying what the unwashed and un-woke are thinking then Suella Braverman would be garlanded…
Rishi Sunak’s Oliver Dowden problem
Margaret Thatcher was said to have once remarked that every prime minister needed a Willie. Given that humour was not…
Sunak has united conservatives but not how he hoped
Why are the Conservatives doing quite so badly? Smashed in two by-elections, dropping further in the polls, last days of…
Tory voters are no longer scared of Labour
Amid all the discussion in Tory circles about whether the next election will have more in common with the narrow…
Is migration really about to halve?
Could our current record levels of immigration be a flash in the pan, a statistical spike brought about by the…
What is the right punishment for Just Stop Oil’s Cambridge protestor?
As a longstanding supporter of ancient over modern in the architecture stakes, it can only grieve me to see the…
The winners and losers of this year’s conference season
Conference season 2023 is done and dusted, with punchy Wes Streeting having performed the final significant act yesterday via his…
Could Nigel Farage unlock victory for Keir Starmer?
What is Labour’s offer for Nigel Farage? Yes, you read that right. Of course, Keir Starmer’s party detests almost everything…
Tory MPs can dare to dream about the next election
Were you a centre-right leader seeking the perfect person to condemn you for implementing a mildly populist measure then a…
‘Associate membership’ of the EU would be a disaster for Britain
The idea of the United Kingdom becoming an ‘associate member’ of the European Union is a non-starter because it would…
Starmer’s migrant plan is even worse than the Tories’
Labour’s long-awaited approach to stopping the Channel boats is so pusillanimous that it ought to be a political gamechanger for…
Could a return to its ‘nasty party’ roots save the Tories?
Next year’s general election could either be a 1992 or a 1997, commentators have speculated: a slender Tory win or…
Kemi Badenoch’s growing popularity makes her vulnerable
The news is grim for supporters of Kemi Badenoch: our heroine has climbed to the top of the Conservative Home…
Sunak has resorted to relying on rain to stop the boats
There is something curious about even the very modest degree of success the Prime Minister has been able to herald…
Might a Tory defeat in 2024 be something to celebrate?
When a party’s own natural supporters decide they have good reason to turn against it then the writing is normally…
Ulez could mark the end of the road for Sadiq Khan
The metropolitan bohemian Withnail, played by Richard E Grant in the film Withnail & I, is so appalled by life…
Sunak said he’d stop the boats. He’s failing abysmally
Rishi Sunak has led voters to believe that his new Illegal Migration Act will mean no illegal migrants will be…
Is the Home Office working against the Tories?
It has long been suggested by senior politicians from both main parties that civil servants in the Home Office pick…
After Sunak, who?
Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens, the author Fay Weldon once declared. This observation about life’s tendency…
The UK’s immigration impotence
We will never know precisely who Channel migrant number 100,000 was, but we do know he was one of around…
Suella Braverman’s Turkey deal won’t stop the boats
It hardly takes a genius to work out that whoever is in charge of the government’s media grid over the…
Suella’s Ascension Island plan doesn’t go far enough
There is nothing new under the sun. The idea of opening an asylum processing centre on the British overseas territory…
Rishi Sunak won’t regret giving up on liberal Conservatism
It will not come as much of a shock to learn that people who voted Conservative in 2019 generally think…
Why Starmer is no heir to Blair
How big is a 20 point opinion poll lead and what word should we use to describe it – insurmountable,…
Will Sunak’s identity makeover pay off?
After claiming that Labour is on the same side as criminal people-trafficking gangs, Rishi Sunak clearly owes a rival party…
