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Labour had a lucky escape in the North East

The election for the first North East of England mayor should have been a gift to the Labour party. Its candidate Kim McGuinness has duly won the...

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The Spectator

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Neil Woodford is offering advice, should we listen?

The former Woodford Equity Income fund manager launched a new blog yesterday called Woodford Views. Neil Woodford, who was investigated by the FCA...

29.04.2024 10

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

Why did it take Rishi Sunak so long to up defence spending?

Britain is putting its defence industry on a ‘war-footing’, the Prime Minister has said, as he vowed to boost spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by...

23.04.2024 20

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Eliot Wilson

Why are the English embarrassed about St George’s Day?

How should the English celebrate St George’s Day? England is a country with plenty to boast about, but doing so is somehow not particularly English....

23.04.2024 40

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London’s night life is in dire straits, and Sadiq Khan is unlikely to turn it around

London’s night life offering has become the dullest party around, but it is unlikely another term for Sadiq Khan will liven things up, writes Eliot...

22.04.2024 10

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Eliot Wilson

Is there any way back for the Met Police?

‘You are quite openly Jewish, this is a pro-Palestinian march, I’m not accusing you of anything but I’m worried about the reaction to your...

22.04.2024 10

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Eliot Wilson

It’s no surprise the SNP’s climate change law has failed

When Nicola Sturgeon unveiled the SNP’s climate change pledge in 2019, the First Minister boasted that Scotland had the ‘most stretching targets...

18.04.2024 10

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Eliot Wilson

Who will scrutinise the value of Trident now?

Three weeks after the Prime Minister visited Barrow-in-Furness to pose with models of submarines, the Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has made his way...

12.04.2024 10

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

New laws don’t stop crime

LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 15: A Police Office stands in Parliament Square on February 15, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty...

12.04.2024 10

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

Has Iran saved Israel’s relationship with the US?

Only a few days ago, President Biden was framing remarks about Israel in tones which were astoundingly critical for an American leader. For decades it...

11.04.2024 10

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Is Whitehall ready for war?

James Heappey, who will soon step down as Conservative MP for Wells after nearly a decade, may have won more column inches in the last fortnight than...

08.04.2024 6

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Eliot Wilson

Sadiq Khan’s London Growth plan is based on optimism (and little else)

Sadiq Khan’s grand plan for London is based on an optimistic fantasy of what a Labour government will bring, writes Eliot Wilson Last week the...

08.04.2024 10

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

The recklessness of William Wragg

Everyone makes mistakes, but they are seldom as monumental as William Wragg’s. The Tory MP has admitted handing over the phone numbers of colleagues...

05.04.2024 6

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Nato’s unhappy birthday

Nato marks its 75th birthday today, but the alliance is in no mood for celebration.  At its foundation, and for much of its lifetime, Nato worked...

04.04.2024 10

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Is Khan being left out of the Starmer project?

Labour could soon be in charge of Westminster and Whitehall, but a clash between Starmer and Khan risks stasis in London, writes Eliot Wilson As the...

02.04.2024 10

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

Donaldson’s fall is a challenge for the future of the DUP

The news that Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, had been arrested and charged with rape and other...

31.03.2024 8

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Can Britain afford Trident?

The prime minister is in Cumbria today, visiting Barrow-in-Furness to announce a ‘national endeavour’ to support the defence and civil nuclear...

25.03.2024 6

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Nike should leave the St George’s Cross alone

England’s football kit has changed dramatically over the years but one feature typically remains unchanged: the cross of St George. Nike, which is...

22.03.2024 30

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Eliot Wilson

Waspi women deserve compensation, but could there be a sting in the tail?

WASPI women protest outside the Conservative Party Conference at the ICC on 4rd October 2022 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Women Against State...

22.03.2024 7

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

Let’s talk about tax – Starmer may regret shutting down debate on abolishing NI

Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer. Photo by Dominic Lipinski/Getty Images. Is dismissing ideas about genuine reform of the tax system as...

20.03.2024 8

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Eliot Wilson

Is this the beginning of the end for Humza Yousaf?

Humza Yousaf might have hoped for a better week. On Wednesday, the First Minister gave a speech at the European Institute of the London School of...

15.03.2024 10

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

What Rishi Sunak got wrong about Lee Anderson

Lee Anderson’s defection from the Tories to Reform UK was hardly a surprise. In fact, it seemed almost inevitable. But that Anderson rose to the...

12.03.2024 7

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Houthi attacks in the Red Sea won’t end until the people of Iran are free

Red Sea troubles have led to increasingly significant re-routing of ships, longer voyages and an upside pressure on freight rates. As violence...

11.03.2024 7

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

Will Republican leaders apologise over ‘Stakeknife’?

‘Stakeknife’, a double agent who was an informant for the British Army while working within the innermost counsels of the Provisional IRA,...

08.03.2024 4

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Scotland / The flaw in the SNP’s plan to ‘build a new Scotland’

The SNP seems determined not to stick to the day job of actually running the country. Scotland’s government this week launched a publication called...

05.03.2024 8

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

When MPs fear for their safety because of how they vote, we can’t look away

Tobias Ellwood was accosted by protestors at his home last month Feeling strongly about a subject is no excuse to harass MPs – the status quo is...

04.03.2024 3

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Eliot Wilson

The speech that reveals the DUP’s radical shift

The Democratic Unionist Party is nothing if not intransigent. For many years, the DUP provided a masterclass in judging the past, and tying it round...

29.02.2024 20

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Eliot Wilson

Labour are chasing the rural vote, but Starmer is no champion of the shires

Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, speaks at the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) conference in Birmingham, UK, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. UK...

26.02.2024 6

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Eliot Wilson

Chaos in the Commons benefits the SNP

Wednesday’s chaotic procedures in the House of Commons have handed an enormous soapbox to the SNP’s Stephen Flynn. The MP for Aberdeen South, who...

22.02.2024 4

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

How Britain helped Robert Mugabe rise to power

A century ago today, Robert Mugabe was born. The man who would come to rule over Zimbabwe between 1980 and 2017 was a brutal and autocratic tyrant....

21.02.2024 8

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Why Denmark is sending all its artillery to Ukraine

The Munich Security Conference has been nicknamed the ‘Davos of defence’. Every year, politicians, security analysts, military leaders and...

19.02.2024 4

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Political squabbling about the ‘R’ word does nothing for struggling Brits

As politicians shadowbox on the economy, the real impacts of the recession are not being engaged with, writes Eliot Wilson By any measure, last...

19.02.2024 20

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Eliot Wilson

Britain can no longer defend itself

When the Berlin Wall fell, the British Army had 152,800 soldiers. Tony Blair’s government cut this to 110,000; David Cameron’s reduced it to...

15.02.2024 4

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Northern Ireland’s historic new government marks a beginning, not an end

BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND – FEBRUARY 5: First Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Emma...

12.02.2024 5

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Eliot Wilson

Can Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill save Northern Ireland?

The appointment of a new executive by the Northern Ireland Assembly on Saturday was a hugely significant moment. There was no government at Stormont...

05.02.2024 4

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Starmer’s prawn cocktail offensive is just that: palatable but lacking substance

Labour’s business plan is hard to oppose, but only because it has nothing to say, writes Eliot Wilson The way we talk about Labour and business has...

05.02.2024 4

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Eliot Wilson

It is still early days for the DUP’s new power-sharing deal

It has been nearly two years since the last elections for the Northern Ireland Assembly. Sinn Féin, for the first time, emerged as the largest party,...

30.01.2024 7

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Eliot Wilson

Here’s a wacky thought for both major parties: End the parade of prohibitions

The prime minister has promised a legal ban on tobacco products, which Labour enthusiastically endorsed Labour and the Tories have decided that...

29.01.2024 8

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

Voters are sick of political slogans, but Sunak and Starmer just won’t let go

Sunak and Starmer are obsessed with slogans, but voters see right through them and they are making politics meaningless, writes Eliot Wilson ...

22.01.2024 8

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

Sunak’s climate rowback depends on an anti-net zero populism that may not exist

Ten days ago, Chris Skidmore, the former climate change and clean energy minister who chaired the government’s Net Zero Review in 2022-23, surprised...

15.01.2024 4

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Eliot Wilson

Reform UK is a ragbag of a party, but it could well prove a destructive force

What Nigel Farage’s Reform UK actually wants remains unclear, but it is likely to prove a destructive force, writes Eliot Wilson Opinion polls have...

08.01.2024 7

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Eliot Wilson

Jacques Delors: an unlikely Brexit hero

‘Up yours, Delors!’ It was the perfect headline for the Sun: crude, defiant, unambiguous and directed at a Frenchman. The paper’s front page on...

30.12.2023 6

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Eliot Wilson

Why can’t the Tories come up with a good nickname for Keir Starmer?

When a nickname really hits its target, there is a satisfying beauty about it: a quippy sobriquet that catches the attention and goes to the heart of...

27.12.2023 6

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Year in review: Rogue ministers and fiscal headaches, how did Sunak do in 2023?

As 2023 comes to an end, and Rishi Sunak approaches the deadline on his “five pledges”, Eliot Wilson takes a look back at the year that was in UK...

27.12.2023 7

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Eliot Wilson

Year in review: Rogue ministers and fiscal headaches, how did Sunak do in 2023?

As 2023 limps to an end, and Sunak nears the deadline for his “five pledges”, Eliot Wilson takes a look at the year that was in UK politics ...

27.12.2023 4

City A.M.

Eliot Wilson

The truth about Ireland’s Troubles amnesty law challenge

Christmas is a time when those who are closest to each other fight most bitterly. Ireland, which is bringing a legal case against the UK under the...

21.12.2023 3

The Spectator

Eliot Wilson

Starmer is set to win, but an election of indifference will come back to bite

Labour is set to win the next election, but only a third of voters think the party is ready to govern. Is Britain sleepwalking into a new government,...

18.12.2023 8

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Eliot Wilson

Golden arches won’t stop conflict, but continued trade might

As countries become more inward looking and trading relationships weaken, the golden arches theory still rings true, writes Eliot Wilson. December...

11.12.2023 7

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Eliot Wilson

James Cleverly’s sober approach to immigration might actually work

The Conservative Party has a fraught history with immigration. Commonwealth citizens came to the UK in higher numbers than expected in the 50s and...

05.12.2023 6

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