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Henry HillThe Guardian |
The long Conservative leadership contest is at last in the final straight. On Saturday, we’ll find out whether Kemi Badenoch or Robert Jenrick is...
I don’t know if it’s just the extent to which Conservative activists were gaslit by the polling and CCHQ’s abject campaign, but the mood among...
Freedom, as the song has it, is “just another word for nothing left to lose”. So, with most voters having long since made up their minds (and...
In politics as in war, an ambush can be a devastatingly effective tactic. Catching your opponent off-guard and out of position has often seen...
Populism is one of those political words that conceals as much as it illuminates. While I’m sure there are academics who could give me some rigorous...
If the prime minister’s announcement of a snap election had been an event in a scripted drama, we might accuse the director of laying it on a little...
How to react to unfolding calamity? Tory MPs took different approaches. “Disastrous. Worse than I expected and pointing to a total wipeout.”...
The government’s current position on the Rwanda scheme is unlikely to boost its electoral hopes – and to understand why, we should look to David...
There is a point past which weakness becomes its own form of security, and that is the paradoxical position in which Rishi Sunak now finds himself....
The news that Jeremy Hunt will deliver next year’s budget on 6 March sparked a fresh round of speculation that Rishi Sunak may be intending a spring...
Robert Jenrick’s decision to resign as immigration minister over the alleged shortcomings of the government’s new safety of Rwanda bill is the...