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One of the great mysteries of the universe is how Kemi Badenoch wins such positive reviews. If you read most commentary about her, you’d be forgiven...
There’s something disarming about the emotional tenor of this Government. In the background, it is composed of pain, asphyxiation and horror. But in...
None of Nigel Farage’s old tricks are working anymore. None of his tried-and-tested techniques are functioning. And in the back of his mind,...
The twinkle of wealth is too much for him. Nigel Farage knows that if he keeps on giving in to temptation it will damage him, but he just can’t help...
We’re finally getting a good look at the royal finances. It shouldn’t take this long, it shouldn’t be up to them to provide them, and we...
The knives are out for Ed Miliband. A full glistening assembly of sharpened weapons, desperately trying to prevent him reaching the Treasury. They...
The knives are out for Ed Miliband. A full glistening assembly of sharpened weapons, desperately trying to prevent him reaching the Treasury. They...
Andy Burnham had it right. “This is a final chance to change,” he said in his victory speech. “This is what people said directly to me on the...
This was effectively an attempted pogrom. They went looking for ethnic minorities and they tried to burn them alive. Masked men marched down the...
Nigel Farage is responsible for these riots. His behavior over the last 24 hours demonstrates precisely what he is: he is a persistent threat to...
What a pointless and dispiriting intervention. What a sad move by the most talented politician of his generation. Tony Blair seized the political...
There is no greater area of failure in public perception than immigration. Not one. Look at the facts. The latest official data shows one of the...
Scattered early battles are breaking out in the Labour leadership war. Over the weekend, Wes Streeting gave a speech in which he branded Brexit a...
Wes Streeting’s resignation letter to Keir Starmer is an enigma wrapped in a mystery. It is a classic of its type: a statement written almost...
Great moments of political change often dissolve into a circus and that’s what’s going on now. Wes Streeting did the mad British politics walk...
No two ways about it and no point pretending otherwise: Reform has had a good election. By mid-afternoon on Friday, the party had won nearly 900...
The main effect of multiparty politics on Britain is seemingly to replace two useless parties with five of them. This local election campaign has...
If the polls are to be believed, a bruising set of local election results are on the way for Sir Keir Starmer and his government. Following multiple...
He pulled it off masterfully. Every time he stuck the knife in, he smiled slightly and looked pointedly out into the audience, then issued the attack....
He looked nervous. That was the first thing you noticed about him. When Morgan McSweeney sat down to give his testimony about the Peter Mandelson...
Sometimes the most important political moments happen in a micro-expression. The twitch of an eye, a furrowed brow, an involuntary grimace. Ed...
It was all very polite, very reasonable, and very deadly. Olly Robbins walked into his interrogation by the Foreign Affairs Committee with the kind of...
If you were Rachel Reeves, you could be forgiven for tearing your hair out. Official figures released yesterday showed that we were starting to see an...
Donald Trump has the smell of mortification on him, the stench of political death. It’s a smell that politicians recognise instantly on others. They...
If Britain made the slightest bit of sense, we would not be sending King Charles to the US. There wouldn’t even be a conversation about it. It would...
Whatever Donald Trump touches, he destroys. It can be people, institutions or ideas – the result is always the same. His empty smile beckons them...
Every day, Donald Trump lashes out. Barely a news cycle passes without some new semi-literate outburst directed at Keir Starmer. Speaking alongside...
The term “special relationship” – used to describe relations between the US and UK – was first used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to highlight...
The best way to understand the US position on Iran is machismo. There’s no point looking for a strategic calculation – you won’t find it. Donald...
For the first time in a long time, Rachel Reeves looked happy. The Conservative benches tried their best to damage her. They mock-laughed whenever she...
The Gorton and Denton by-election is not just a judgement on who will run the constituency. It sounds the death knell on an entire political strategy....
It must be clear by now that this isn’t going to stop. It’s been nearly two decades since Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and over five since Andrew...