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Sunak makes security central to his stump speech
Rishi Sunak tonight made his first stump speech, kicking off the Tory election campaign with an appearance at the Excel…
Will gas prices determine the election?
Ideally, responsible citizens would think big when deciding on a presidential candidate. But the election outcome may just be determined…
Sunak’s speech was embarrassingly bad
Let’s be fair. It wasn’t Rishi Sunak’s fault it was raining. But it was, a bit, his fault that as…
Are Labour really nailed on to win?
What happens when a resistible force collides with a moveable object? Such is the nature of the imminent battle between…
The general election has ruined prospects of an early rate cut
Would waiting another few months to call a general election have improved the Conservatives’ prospects? Rishi Sunak didn’t touch upon…
Starmer pitches stability
Within 20 minutes of Rishi Sunak announcing plans for a July election, Keir Starmer was up delivering his response. The…
Might Sunak actually win? A history of election miracles
Is it madness to call a general election when you’re 20 points behind in the polls? That depends on whether…
With this election we can stop the chaos
The Prime Minister has finally announced the next general election. A moment the country needs and has been waiting for.…
Why didn’t Rishi wait?
So there we have it. Westminster’s favourite parlour game has finally concluded. We now know the date of the general…
Why I’m calling a general election
In the last five years, our country has fought through the most challenging times since the second world war. As…
Sunak takes his biggest gamble yet: a July election
Rishi Sunak has chosen to go for a summer election. The Prime Minister has confirmed in an address to the…
Trump’s Reich stuff
Former president Donald Trump’s social media account shared a video Monday that sparked a Blitzkrieg among his harshest critics. The…
Stop children from suffering when their parents go to jail
Writing about the impact on children of having a parent in prison, you always hit the same brick wall: no…
Cameron snubs Albania for impromptu cabinet meeting
Dear oh dear. Rishi Sunak failed to quash election speculation in this afternoon’s Prime Minister’s Questions and now lobby hacks…
PMQs: we saw a glimpse of Labour in power
The party leaders conformed to type at PMQs. Rishi Sunak declared that Britain is experiencing an economic boom. ‘Inflation is…
The ban on XL Bully dogs still doesn’t go far enough
On Monday, a woman was mauled to death in London by her own two ‘exempted’ XL Bully dogs. By the time…
Why is it acceptable to mock the working class?
You may laugh. You may have gasped in disbelief. But yes, it’s true, we now have a new socio-economic classification,…
If only Starmer had answered his own questions at PMQs
Is Rishi Sunak going to announce the election date later today? Speculation was – once again – so rife that…
Men in tights: football’s next problem?
It was 21° celsius in London on Sunday so it was curious to see Everton’s Idrissa Gueye wearing tights underneath…
The SNP vows to make poverty history – again
There is a weary inevitability about Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney, promising to ‘eradicate child poverty’ as his ‘single most…
Voters want safe streets, not small changes to inflation
For Rishi Sunak, today amounts to another instalment of the fantastic success story of his premiership: that ‘the plan is…
Wallace turns his guns on the Foreign Office
Uh oh. This time, it seems, mandarins at the Foreign Office have finally gone too far. In a scathing piece…
The ICC arrest warrant request for Netanyahu is repulsive
On Monday, Karim Khan KC, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), announced that he had applied for warrants for the arrest of three leaders of Hamas as well…
China will struggle to resist Biden’s trade war
Attending a business summit in Shanghai earlier this year, I was struck by how downbeat the mood was. China’s stagnant…
Inflation falls close to target, but could interest rate cuts be delayed?
The UK inflation rate has slowed to 2.3 per cent on the year to April, down from 3.2 per cent…
