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The Tory leadership contest is Kemi Badenoch’s to lose
Were Kemi Badenoch not to be unveiled as the next Conservative party leader in a couple of weeks it would…
Tory councillor’s wife jailed over social media riot post
The wife of a Tory councillor has been jailed for 31 months over a social media post during the riots.…
How much trouble is Rachel Reeves in?
The countdown to Labour’s first budget for 14 years continues. Unfortunately for Rachel Reeves, the mood music is not particularly…
The slippery slope of assisted dying
Critics of the Assisted Dying Bill have been warning for a while that it would lead to a ‘slippery slope’.…
Kamala creaks in hard-hitting Fox News interview
Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Fox News’s Bret Baier for a half-hour interview in which Baier politely took…
Science Secretary failed to declare Taylor Swift tickets on time
Dear oh dear. Science Secretary Peter Kyle has certainly had better days in office. Despite Kyle insisting in the Commons…
Treasury breaks silence over Labour donor hire
If it’s not the freebie fiasco dogging Sir Keir’s Labour party, it’s the cronyism row. Back in August, the curious…
Keir Starmer is full of bilge
Who runs Britain’s foreign policy? Not the government, that’s clear. At PMQs, Sir Keir Starmer got a monumental roasting from…
Britain’s lax immigration policy is making it an outlier
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has this week put out an official statement that could fairly be described…
Scottish visas are a terrible idea
The last thing Labour needs right now, after the last hundred days of scandal and mishap, is a row over…
Can the US force Israel to bow to its demands on Gaza?
The White House wants Israel to allow more aid into Gaza and implement humanitarian ceasefires within 30 days. If they…
The Big Dog unleashed on immigration
The Big Dog has returned to the campaign trail, and he’s up to his old tricks. No, not those tricks — the…
I’ve seen too many deaths to think that assisted dying is a good idea
Over my quarter-of-a-century of being a doctor, I have overseen thousands of deaths. For a busy hospital physician, this is…
The SNP will regret expelling John Mason
You might have missed the news that the SNP has expelled one of its MSPs, announced as it was following…
Watch: Jenrick drops the ball over England manager hire
To the Tory leadership race, which is picking up pace with only three weeks to go. The two finalists are…
Starmer denies being soft on China
Prime Minister’s Questions today asked the same question that Katy raised in her magazine cover piece last week: what is…
Britain shouldn’t take part in joint EU defence missions
Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to ‘reset’ the United Kingdom’s relations with the European Union. But at what cost? The…
Watch: Science Secretary grilled over latest cronyism row
Labour’s cronyism row has reared its head once again. It now transpires that Sir Keir Starmer’s government failed to disclose…
A German managing the England team? It’s depressing
Hand back the Falklands. Why not? FedEx over the Elgin Marbles. What’s the point of any of it anymore? They…
Jenrick takes aim at Khan over house-building
The Tory leadership contest is gathering pace with voting due to open up to the membership in less than 24…
Labour’s crackdown on hereditary privilege is hard to stomach
Do our new Labour rulers ever pause to think about how something they say or do might look to others?…
No, Israel isn’t deliberately killing children in Gaza
In every war, children perish. It’s the worst thing about conflict, this dragging of innocents into the swirling maelstrom of…
Does it matter that Thomas Tuchel isn’t English?
Thomas Tuchel has been confirmed as the next manager of the England national football team, to take over from the…
Will falling inflation save Rachel Reeves’s Budget?
Inflation slowed to 1.7 per cent in the twelve months to September, taking the inflation rate to its lowest levels…
Is Kamala Harris’s crypto policy racist?
It is too flimsy, you can’t buy anything with it, and it is wildly volatile. There have been plenty of…
