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S ir Keir Starmer and Sir Ed Davey were seated next to each other in Westminster Abbey for the coronation. For these knights of the opposition realm,...
R ishi Sunak has sold himself to other Tories as a kind of company doctor with a recovery plan to rescue a hideously tarnished and hugely unpopular...
T hat’s a blow for the theory of nominative determinism. Richard Sharp was terribly dim when it came to realising that he could not possibly...
A nd another one bites the dust. Dominic Raab is the third man to exit the cabinet during Rishi Sunak’s six months at Number 10 and the umpteenth...
For too many women and children, male violence is a daily reality. About 1.5 million women are victims of domestic abuse each year, and two women a...
G o hard or go home. Such is the defiantly unrepentant response of those Labour people willing to defend the party’s digital attack ad on Rishi...
W hat has been seen cannot be unseen. Some images are so potent that they become indelibly etched on to a nation’s retina. I think we can say that...
J ust before the beginning of the trial, one MP was worrying: “I hope they don’t fuck it up.” He was not alone in being nervous that the...
W estminster is salivating in expectation of electrifying theatre. “It will be mandatory viewing,” says one former cabinet minister. “We will...
T ories are having a debate among themselves about whether they can somehow contrive to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat or are doomed to be...
I woz framed. Faced with overwhelming, slam-dunk, bang-to-rights evidence against him, the last resort of the old lag is to claim that he is the...
T he in-tray of a prime minister is never empty and often overflowing, as Rishi Sunak has discovered since he moved into Number 10. Jumbo issues are...
W hen Nicola Sturgeon announced she was quitting the stage, the most extravagant bouquets of compliments were thrown not by her friends, but her...
The democracies have confounded the Russian tyrant with their resolve to support Ukraine. That must be sustained in 2023
As the US, China and now the EU compete for the fruits of the green economy, the UK is hamstrung by Tory dogma, dither and delay
He promised an end to the degeneracy of the Johnson years, but the scandals keep coming and the prime minister seems too weak to deal with them
Nothing in the prospectus has survived contact with reality
The wave of public sector strikes will only get worse until the government realises that compromise is not a dirty word
The fundamental differences of belief between the two party leaders are much more important than their superficial similarities
Sir Keir Starmer’s party must be ready to face a lot more scrutiny this year
Britain has become trapped in a doom loop of perpetual crisis under the Conservatives
Sir Keir Starmer should ignore those who say constitutional change is too difficult. Radical reinvigoration of our democracy must be a Labour priority
The cabinet is taking a dangerous gamble when it calculates that the public will blame the unions, not the government, for an advent calendar of...