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Eliot WilsonThe Telegraph |
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...
The former Woodford Equity Income fund manager launched a new blog yesterday called Woodford Views. Neil Woodford, who was investigated by the FCA...
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...
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....
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...
‘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...
When Nicola Sturgeon unveiled the SNP’s climate change pledge in 2019, the First Minister boasted that Scotland had the ‘most stretching targets...
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...
LONDON, ENGLAND – FEBRUARY 15: A Police Office stands in Parliament Square on February 15, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The news that Sir Jeffrey Donaldson, leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party, had been arrested and charged with rape and other...
The prime minister is in Cumbria today, visiting Barrow-in-Furness to announce a ‘national endeavour’ to support the defence and civil nuclear...
England’s football kit has changed dramatically over the years but one feature typically remains unchanged: the cross of St George. Nike, which is...
WASPI women protest outside the Conservative Party Conference at the ICC on 4rd October 2022 in Birmingham, United Kingdom. Women Against State...
Labour Party leader, Sir Keir Starmer. Photo by Dominic Lipinski/Getty Images. Is dismissing ideas about genuine reform of the tax system as...
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...
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...
Red Sea troubles have led to increasingly significant re-routing of ships, longer voyages and an upside pressure on freight rates. As violence...
‘Stakeknife’, a double agent who was an informant for the British Army while working within the innermost counsels of the Provisional IRA,...
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...
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...
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...
Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party, speaks at the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) conference in Birmingham, UK, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. UK...
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...
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....
The Munich Security Conference has been nicknamed the ‘Davos of defence’. Every year, politicians, security analysts, military leaders and...
As politicians shadowbox on the economy, the real impacts of the recession are not being engaged with, writes Eliot Wilson By any measure, last...
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...
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND – FEBRUARY 5: First Minister of Northern Ireland, Michelle O’Neill, and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland, Emma...
The appointment of a new executive by the Northern Ireland Assembly on Saturday was a hugely significant moment. There was no government at Stormont...
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...
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,...
The prime minister has promised a legal ban on tobacco products, which Labour enthusiastically endorsed Labour and the Tories have decided that...
Sunak and Starmer are obsessed with slogans, but voters see right through them and they are making politics meaningless, writes Eliot Wilson ...
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...
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...
‘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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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,...
As countries become more inward looking and trading relationships weaken, the golden arches theory still rings true, writes Eliot Wilson. December...
The Conservative Party has a fraught history with immigration. Commonwealth citizens came to the UK in higher numbers than expected in the 50s and...