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The media’s shameful PR campaign for Elizabeth Warren
In recent weeks, Elizabeth Warren has emerged as the mainstream media’s favorite candidate – for now, at least. Warren’s polling…
Trump is Joe Biden’s best campaign aide
They warn generals not to fight the last war. The same admonition might apply to presidential races. Donald Trump was out on the White…
Gove, Javid and the point of a backstory
Michael Gove’s launch was, easily, the strongest of any candidate yesterday and he deserves the plaudits he’s getting now. Even…
Hunt gains momentum over Gove ahead of crunch week
Which two candidates will make the final two of the Tory leadership contest? At the moment, the race is Boris…
How the Parliamentary stage of the Tory leadership contest works
This week, the Conservative leadership content enters the Parliamentary stage. The various contenders – at the time of writing there…
Could the Tory leadership race end early?
The Tory leadership is fast becoming Boris Johnson’s to lose, I say in The Sun this morning. He has more…
Michael Gove’s cocaine blues
The Tory leadership race has taken on a new turn this weekend with the Daily Mail splashing on Michael Gove’s…
Could a Tory-Brexit Party alliance actually work?
In 2013, I started promoting a tactical voting alliance between Conservative and Ukip voters. It wasn’t just about avoiding the…
How I could get a better Brexit deal
There are things that we can do which will change the way in which we leave the European Union. I…
How Boris and Corbyn could both be undone by Brexit
When the influential Tory ERG Brexiter Steve Baker refused last night on my programme to deny Boris Johnson is closer to his…
Reports of the GOP’s death are greatly exaggerated
David Brooks, the center-right Cassandra of the New York Times, reckons that a GOP apocalypse is coming. The data predicted…
Gove pitches himself as the liberal candidate in the Tory leadership race
Michael Gove’s positioning in the Tory leadership race became clearer tonight. In conversation with Fraser Nelson at a Spectator event,…
Tory leadership candidates start frenzied final push for support
With just a few days to go until nominations close in the Tory leadership contest, candidates are busy trying to…
Will Boris Johnson save or sink the Tory party?
Now that the Tory party has confirmed we’ll know the identity of its new leader and therefore in theory our…
Trump’s Mexican tariffs could wipe out his 2017 tax cut
Donald Trump likes to brag about his deal-making prowess. During his visit to the United Kingdom, he’s touting the prospects…
Donald Trump should not stoop to Sadiq Khan’s level
In July last year, when Trump last visited Britain, I wrote a post saying ‘Admit it, Donald Trump is right…
The next Tory leader will have even less flexibility than May on Brexit
In Choosing A Leader, what remains one of the best books published on British leadership contests (although I appreciate this…
Why this year’s al-Quds Day march could be different
This weekend might provide an interesting spectacle. On Sunday the annual al-Quds Day march sets off in London from outside…
Why the First Wives’ Club should cut Boris a bit of slack
Well, very obliging of Donald Trump to back Boris Johnson – ‘a very good guy…he’d be excellent…I like him very…
The Inevitability of Impeachment
It looks more and more like a foregone conclusion that impeachment proceedings will be initiated against Donald Trump in the…
Trump: American Shogun
Japan has a new emperor, and so do we. Donald Trump isn’t merely president. He wants to be America’s shogun.…
The cosmic magnetism of Trump and Brexit
Polite British eurosceptics still insist that Brexit isn’t Trump and Trump isn’t Brexit — as if that meant anything at…
The Boris Brexit court case isn’t as bad for his leadership bid as some hope
Will Boris Johnson being told to answer to allegations of misconduct in a public office derail his leadership campaign? The…