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Andy BeckettThe Guardian |
An old spectre is haunting Britain yet again – the spectre of Thatcherism. Although she became Tory leader almost half a century ago and was sacked...
Why are so many voters so unsatisfied with Britain’s main parties? In the opinion polls, despite Labour’s strong lead, their combined support is...
In Britain and other supposedly calm democracies, the ascent of leftwing politicians can arouse unusual fears of violence. Many conservatives and...
Where should politics happen? For most MPs, accustomed to the Palace of Westminster’s inward-looking spaces and rituals, the answer is obvious. In...
On the ever more common journey from the centre right to the far right, there are two contrasting routes conservative parties can follow. One is to...
In our punitive politics, the Labour party is almost always on probation. You can see it in Keir Starmer’s sometimes jumpy public manner, in the...
For Tory moderates – assuming some still exist – these ought to be quietly promising times. Their party’s extremists have made a huge mess of...
The often messy end of a party’s long hold on power is one of the key rituals of British politics. Voters who made that party’s ascendancy...
Labour leaders looking to cite successful predecessors, at least in the most obvious electoral sense, don’t have many to choose from. Ramsay...
For millions of Britons, this feels more and more like a poor country. Essentials such as heating and regular meals are increasingly unaffordable....
In so many ways, the Covid inquiry feels as if it is going very badly for the Tories. Seemingly every session in the plain, low-ceilinged, rather...
Has Britain ever had a government with so little support and yet such an appetite for expanding its powers? Less than a quarter of the electorate...
When an opposition party hasn’t won a general election for 18 years, you might expect its last success to be cited as a model for how that party...
Where on earth is conservatism going? In Britain, at least, the simple answer seems to be opposition, and possibly for a long time. Non-Tories scarred...
I n scary enough circumstances, “stability” can be one of the most appealing words in politics. When a country has had years of political and...
W hat does the prospect of losing power mean for a party that feels it was born to rule? That question has been haunting the Conservatives for almost...
T his autumn, more than ever, British politics is a waiting game. Waiting for the Tory and Labour party conferences. Waiting for possibly pivotal...