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Reform overtakes Tories in new poll
Here we go. This evening the Reform party has overtaken the Tories according to a new YouGov poll. The survey…
The illiberal implications of Labour’s manifesto
Labour’s election manifesto may not have much in terms of extra spending, or any substantial plans. But it sends a…
Javier Milei’s policy win met with protests
Argentine president Javier Milei has just passed a reform bill and a twin fiscal package through the Senate, which include…
Why Labour’s plans are so vague
Keir Starmer has deliberately pursued a strategy of revealing as little as possible, boasting today that his manifesto didn’t contain…
Labour’s dangerous pledge to ban conversion therapy
An incoming Labour government will enact legislation that could prevent gender-questioning children getting the help they need to come to…
Watch: Dawn Butler’s bizarre campaign rap
Today’s a big day in the election calendar. This morning, Labour launched its official manifesto, while campaigners hit the three-week…
Keir Starmer’s manifesto will disappoint Tory spin doctors
Keir Starmer and the Labour party today launched a manifesto that’s good enough to win this election and presented it…
Does Labour have the stomach to tackle welfare reform?
Regardless of who wins the election, taxes are going up. Spending plans from both Labour and the Tories suggest the…
Macron has unleashed political chaos on France
It is difficult to see how France will emerge from next month’s election peacefully. Flames are licking at the edges…
What wasn’t included in Labour’s manifesto
Keir Starmer has been promising ‘no surprises’ on tax in the Labour manifesto. At first glance, he has – technically…
‘Change’: Starmer unveils manifesto
What would Labour do in power? This is the question Sir Keir Starmer tried to answer this morning as he…
How will Labour fix a struggling NHS?
The latest NHS waiting figures are without question a problem for Rishi Sunak: they’re going up again for the first…
Watch: Farage’s plans to reunite the right
There may only be three weeks of election season left but there’s still a new development every day. Now Nigel…
The staggering dullness of Sunak and Starmer
We’re now about halfway through the election campaign. I don’t know how we’re going to keep our excitement from bubbling…
Expect tension and clashes at Italy’s G7 summit
Another year, another G7 Leaders’ summit. The confab between the world’s wealthiest democracies has long since become one of those…
Starmer wants to go for growth – but will he end up like Liz Truss?
Keir Starmer, it turns out, was a secret Liz Truss fan all along. Launching his party’s manifesto this morning he…
Keir Starmer needs a better answer to the Jeremy Corbyn question
Keir Starmer looked baffled by tonight’s questions. Rishi Sunak looked resigned. Separating the two candidates – having them face Beth…
Sunak’s aide under investigation after betting on election date
Oh dear. Now it has transpired that the Prime Minister’s closest parliamentary aide, Craig Williams, placed a £100 bet on…
The wonderful guilelessness of Rishi Sunak
Could Rishi Sunak’s emergence as this nation’s greatest gaffe machine since Prince Philip come in time to endear him to…
Listen: Andrew Neil schools Green co-leader on wealth tax
Another day, another campaign disaster. Now it’s the turn of the Green party’s co-leader Adrian Ramsay, who was this lunchtime…
The SNP shouldn’t celebrate being tied with Labour
It is a measure of the extent of the SNP’s decline that nationalist activists have seized on a new Ipsos…
Plane stupidity: my waking flight-mare
The skies above the Atlantic As airplane doors and Boeing stock prices continue to fall, I think it’s time to…
When will the Greens get real?
There is something a little refreshing about the Green party. In contrast to Rishi Sunak, who has no option but…
Nicola Sturgeon’s ITV hypocrisy
Back to Scotland, where the SNP’s Dear Leader is back in the news — literally, this time. It transpires that…
The Tories’ best hope is to keep Sunak away from the camera
Is Rishi Sunak Labour’s not-so-secret weapon in this election campaign? The question has to be asked after Sunak’s latest political…
