red wall
Boris Johnson’s coalition of voters is falling apart
Boris Johnson enters the third year of his premiership in a much weaker position than when he started it. Alongside…
Does Rishi Sunak really understand red wall voters?
Rishi Sunak thinks Boris Johnson goofed badly when he conspiring to upend Commons standards procedures and agrees with his colleagues…
Labour is in last chance saloon
If they have any sense – a proposition I will test later – officials from Labour, the Liberal Democrats and…
Why I spoilt my ballot paper
The headline ‘Government to allow people to hug’ one might have expected to hear on early evening news bulletins in…
Boris shouldn't take the red wall vote for granted
There are two popular reactions to the Hartlepool by-election, which one you favour depending largely on your political tribe. The…
Why did Britain fall out of love with speedway?
How speedway became Britain’s left-behind sport
Diane Abbott has exposed Keir Starmer's Red Wall dilemma
Were Keir Starmer more like Gordon Brown in temperament then by now he’d be throwing his mobile phone at a…
Starmer’s long game: party repair comes before opposition politics
There’s logic behind the Labour leader’s approach
Left behind: how Labour betrayed its base
How Labour betrayed its base
Boris's red wall problem
When Boris Johnson met with his cabinet in person for the first time in four months on Tuesday, his aim…
Will former Labour MPs help the Tories break the ‘red wall’?
Will former Labour MPs help the Tories break the red wall? A key plank of the Tory path to a majority…