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Anne Mcelvoy

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Labour has its own Rwanda problems

The relief in Rishi Sunak’s circle in the early hours of the morning was palpable: a victory in a long battle to pass legislation that the Prime...

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The Mark Menzies story exposes the increasingly bizarre behaviour of our MPs

Say what you like about the Conservative Party, but it is certainly a drama-comedy series which keeps on running, and is never short of spicy new...

18.04.2024 5

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The smoking ban vote shows just how divided the Tories are

The Prime Minister is often described as a passionless political creature – a technocrat who can juggle spreadsheet numbers and sift to game the...

16.04.2024 4

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Starmer and Sunak are struggling to cope with Israel-Iran escalation

The hostile relationship between Iran and Israel is a cauldron which, when it boils over, poses a grave escalation threat across the Middle East. That...

14.04.2024 3

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Iran's threats are why the UK will keep arming Israel

It now looks like a matter of “when” not “if” Iran launches a retaliation attack on Israel – payback for an air strike on the Iranian...

12.04.2024 6

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Rachel Reeves’s usually cool head has got a bit hot on non-doms

If you have been as absorbed as I am by Netflix’s stylishly grim Ripley remake, you will be sharing the twin sense of luxuriant fascination with the...

10.04.2024 7

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David Cameron is at the crux of the Government’s Israel dilemma

Britain’s response to Israel’s war on Hamas is at a precarious point. The coming days will sorely test the resolve and agility of the UK’s...

04.04.2024 2

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Starmer and Sunak's next challenge is getting voters to care about Ukraine again

Wars have no respect for our short attention spans. While the Israel-Gaza conflict has ignited heated protests across Western capitals, with a mass...

31.03.2024 4

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Why some Tory MPs are eyeing a June election

It was going to be May and now it isn’t. But it could be June – perhaps. This week, the buzz among some of the fractious Tory MPs heading off for...

28.03.2024 2

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Rightwing populists have many countries in their grip. Come to Poland: see how they can be pushed back

My formative journalistic years were spent reporting on the final freeze of the cold war – days of hard times and soft currencies. When I return to...

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Farmers are the protest group giving governments across Europe a big headache

First they tore up Parisian streets in tractors and terrified the French political elite into scuppering free trade deals. Then, via Brussels protests...

27.03.2024 2

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A 'slimmed down monarchy' is no longer possible

Fate deals a rough hand to royal clans as randomly as it does ordinary mortals. The difference is that the monarchy is a professional “firm” as...

25.03.2024 5

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Good luck to any government trying to make women have more children

Two contrasting strands of opinion zone in on predictive demographics as pointing to a future they either fear or would like to bring about. One set...

21.03.2024 4

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How Thatcherite is Rachel Reeves? Enough to spook the left

If there is one comparison likely to land a politician in hot water with both ends of the political spectrum, it is comparing their intentions with...

19.03.2024 4

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Diane Abbott is the start of a very awkward year for Labour

Political claims to the moral high ground are treacherous territory – one that can swiftly give way to an ethical quagmire. And so it has proved in...

14.03.2024 4

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What the Red Wall really needs is not Boris Johnson

The “Red Wall“, so dramatically demolished in the post-Brexit rout of 2019, has been rebuilt with greater speed than most British infrastructure...

12.03.2024 4

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Boris Johnson has two paths back into frontline politics – and Rishi Sunak may not like either

Somehow, there is always Boris. Limelight is the natural setting for a man who, as his biographer describes him in a new Channel 4 documentary,...

07.03.2024 4

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Jeremy Hunt is already getting his excuses in before the Budget

More than any other Cabinet ministers, chancellors tread in the ghostly footsteps of the No 11 inhabitants who went before them. And so, in the run-up...

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Tory moderates are preparing to fight back

Who’s sorry now? The Lee Anderson affair was intended to be a storm that would retreat after a talking to from the whips, a grumpy retreat by...

28.02.2024 8

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Rishi Sunak must face up to an awkward truth about Lee Anderson

Where is the uncrossable line in the growing culture wars surrounding Gaza protests? The latest outrage – or defiant stand, depending on your view...

25.02.2024 5

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Keir Starmer's Gaza problem just got a whole lot messier

There are days when Britain’s parliament is a model of cut-and-thrust debate and memorable exchanges conducted with zingers and good humour....

22.02.2024 4

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Politicians' rural posturing isn't fooling our farmers

Election horns are tooting, the blood is up – and the hunt is on for rural votes. It is a battlefield that has seen a Tory retreat which Labour...

20.02.2024 5

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PopCon Tories are relishing the chaos – the future of the party is theirs

When does a pre-election “chicken run” become a mass participation event for Tory MPs? The Parkrun of politics is under way, as MPs, reeling from...

19.02.2024 5

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Alexei Navalny’s death is a chilling message to us all

The Munich Security Conference is one of the odder pitstops on relentless circuit of global decision-makers. Located in a hotel in the middle of the...

16.02.2024 5

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The Tories have got their own by-election woes

By-elections are seen as bellwethers of national political trends – the equivalent of the water diviner’s twitching rod. Just as often though,...

13.02.2024 2

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How Camilla became the King's secret weapon

It has become evident that King Charles’s illness – and the gruelling nature of the cancer therapies which will hopefully cure it – has thrust...

11.02.2024 8

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Rishi Sunak walked right into Piers Morgan’s trap

Sometimes the bear traps of politics are signposted with a big yellow arrow. Sometimes, they come in the cunning form of a matey exchange on a Piers...

06.02.2024 4

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The next asylum headache for Rishi Sunak is from Turkey

It is one thing for the Government to find itself locked in combat with the Supreme Court, “leftie” human rights lawyers, NGOs and political...

02.02.2024 3

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Michael Gove is Kemi Badenoch's secret weapon

Leadership contests that look like sudden death-or-glory do not begin when the participants hit the starting blocks. More often, they are foreshadowed...

30.01.2024 3

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This is Kemi Badenoch’s most dangerous moment

For a “secret” plot, it has made an awful lot of noise. The “Sheekey coup” allegedly cooked up over fish dishes at a pricey London restaurant,...

29.01.2024 4

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The BBC does have a bias problem - but it's not what you think

Is the BBC biased? Even the Cabinet seems divided on this question, which plagues the national broadcaster with renewed vigour as the future of its...

24.01.2024 4

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David Cameron is mentoring Rishi Sunak - and it might change everything

The Rishi riddle is preoccupying Tories emerging from the January slump into a fierce bout of pre-election hostilities, which will set the tone and...

22.01.2024 6

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An awkward question for Sunak and Cameron

Five deaths of migrants fleeing Iraq and Syria and setting off from the French coast for Britain this weekend was a desolate return to “business as...

14.01.2024 2

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Rishi Sunak loves being PM – that's why there won't be an election until Autumn

Check out Rishi Sunak’s Wikipedia page and the description is “Prime Minister of the United Kingdom”. Like all the best titles, it is simple –...

07.01.2024 7

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A broadly cohesive European front is beginning to fracture over Gaza

The new year signals more suffering for the besieged people of Gaza as Israel’s military trains its fire on rooting out Hamas by widening its...

31.12.2023 5

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Labour knows it made a big mistake on immigration

What a difference the prospect of a new year containing a general election makes. Labour’s asylum and immigration proposal is a prime example of a...

27.12.2023 3

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Labour knows it made a big mistake on immigration

What a difference the prospect of a new year containing a general election makes. Labour’s asylum and immigration proposal is a prime example of a...

27.12.2023 4

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Imagine if Gary Lineker was throwing insults at Labour MPs

A bracing new wind is blowing through New Broadcasting House as the chairman elect, Samir Shah, prepares to take up the role and runs straight into a...

14.12.2023 3

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The Brexit Big Beasts are back - and shaping the Tory party

Three former chart-topping politicians are back for the revival tour at the end of 2023. All of them had their fortunes decided by the Brexit...

11.12.2023 5

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What Robert Jenrick gets wrong about immigration

How much immigration does the Government think is beneficial to the UK? The answer reveals an astonishing amount of ideological diversity in the...

05.12.2023 3

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An economic fistfight has broken out as the Tories prepare for opposition

The single most influential metric for the country’s wellbeing is in a gloomy state. Lest we doubt it, the Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew...

29.11.2023 3

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It's becoming glaringly obvious that the UK didn't do that bad during Covid

Science and politics are never easy bedfellows. The first is essentially an analysis of what is known and what is not, giving us the evidence to make...

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