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Henry HillBelfast News Letter |
Sir Keir Starmer is reportedly considering calls to strip Labour members of their vote on the party leader. Allies apparently pushing for this measure...
Tom Tugendhat’s status as the leading One Nation candidate in the Conservative Party leadership contest is a double-edged sword. It greatly eases...
Uppermost in the minds of the 1922 Committee, the body of Conservative backbenchers which drew up the rules for the leadership contest, has been...
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...
It’s a sign of how gaslit Conservative activists have been by this campaign, but at the time of writing – about 1am – the Tories I’m talking...
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...
Photo: Create Streets If Labour isn’t offering a serious overhaul of planning regulations to force through new housing it has no business touting...
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...
An incumbent Government seeking re-election really only has two pitches to the electorate. Whilst the details and policy focus may vary, these are...
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...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issues a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London, after calling a General Election for July 4. Picture date: Wednesday...
Do you remember when, last December, the Irish government took the United Kingdom to court over proposals for dealing with the legacy of the...
This week, the Sunday Times published its Rich List for 2024 – and it’s good news for Rishi Sunak. He and his wife, Akshata Murty, have climbed...
How to react to unfolding calamity? Tory MPs took different approaches. “Disastrous. Worse than I expected and pointing to a total wipeout.”...
Say what you like about Boris Johnson’s performance as prime minister – but not even his fiercest critics can deny his power as a showman. Here we...
The unfolding row between the British and Irish governments over refugees probably suits both parties more than either would ever care to admit. For...
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...
In the late 50s, the historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson gave the world the term “bike-shedding”, also known as Parkinson’s Law of Triviality....
It’s no surprise that Britain’s night economy is in dire straight given a quarter of people told pollsters they would like to see nightclubs...
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....
Two by-election defeats prove beyond doubt that Reform UK is a problem for the Conservative Party, but not the problem – that would be Labour, the...
Politically speaking, recessions are strange things. They make for terrible headlines, and the latest announcement – right on the eve of two...
I wrote a week or so ago that the Conservative Party has entered its warlord era. Languishing in the polls and without a unifying vision, the...
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...