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…
The Tories can’t be trusted
Accusing the Tories of starting a culture war against minority identity groups and their supporters is rather like accusing Ukraine…
The High Court Rwanda ruling is a win for the Tories
Today’s High Court ruling that the government’s plan to send irregular migrants to Rwanda on a one-way ticket is lawful…
Rishi Sunak’s immigration plan could be a game changer
Rishi Sunak today gave a potentially game-changing statement in the Commons, finally committing the Conservatives to effective action when it…
Will Braverman turn on Sunak over the Channel crisis?
Finally the Tory government appears to have realised that its serial mishandling of the Channel boats issue is the top…
Why do so many people now hate the Tories?
When Labour lost Hartlepool to the Tories in a parliamentary by-election 18 months ago, Keir Starmer was reported to have…
Where’s the moral outrage at England’s cricket tour of Pakistan?
Everyone on the television agrees: seeing an England team give succour to a repressive regime by playing prestigious fixtures on…
Will Rishi Sunak get away with ignoring voters on the right?
Conventional wisdom has long held that the Conservatives win elections from the centre ground – including territory just to the…
A Swiss-style Brexit would delight Nigel Farage
Someone near the top of government – let us give him the random alias Heremy Junt – is stoking the…
The remarkable transformation of Keir Starmer
Amid all the frenetic changes of leadership in the Conservative party, something important has been overlooked about the Labour party:…
