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This is the high point. Keir Starmer will never have as much power as he does now. He’ll never command this degree of authority. But despite all...
The key thing is the speed. It’s not the money or the radicalism. It’s the speed with which Labour will make its initial round of reforms, and the...
We’ve got our first indication of which way the Tory leadership race is going. Needless to say, it will be a disaster. And that disaster is likely...
Nothing has become Rishi Sunak like the loss of power. It’s been transformative. He’s gone from a snide, petulant, disingenuous prefect into a...
This is what it looks like. After 14 years, it’s hard to even recognise it. It seems bizarre, exotic, kind of alien. But this is how serious...
There are some moments in life which you just have to take in. You have to properly open yourself up to them and experience it to the fullest. This...
It’s good that Boris Johnson came back at the end. He should be here to see it. He should witness with his own eyes the triumph of the man he once...
That was Rishi Sunak’s last shot. His last roll of the dice. And he did what he always did: he allowed his cynicism to undermine his own position....
On and on it came. Attack after attack, criticism after criticism, ridicule after ridicule. When Rishi Sunak walked into the LBC studio this morning,...
There seems to be no end to Rishi Sunak’s failures. You could sit for days trying to arrive at a comprehensive list and still find it incomplete....
There are many worse politicians than Penny Mordaunt, but there are very few with less substance. During tonight’s election debate, she threatened...
We have a whole galaxy of euphemisms for what we saw from Rishi Sunak last night. Sometimes we say that he was being “misleading”, or perhaps that...
Well, that was an utterly vapid experience: a meaningless shouting match of total vacuity, with no discernable outcome. By the time it was over,...
What an utter waste of time this has been. What a desperate, cynical frittering away of police resources in order to silence a political opponent....
The Rwanda plan is dead. Barring some unexpected shock, it will never go ahead. No flights will ever take off. No asylum seeker will ever be sent...
The Government’s best quality is its ineptitude. If it were more competent, it could do permanent damage to this country. But it isn’t competent,...
It’s not surprising that Esther McVey has nothing to do. She is, after all, the “minister for common sense” – a made up job with a made up...
It’s a pitiful sight: a prime minister reduced to arguing that he is only going to lose by a little bit, rather than a lot. But that is the message...
They lie as easily as they breathe. They cannot govern. They cannot even bring themselves to pretend to govern. So instead they inundate us with...
A seven-year-old girl and four adults died yesterday as they tried to reach Britain. It should be a moment for recognition. It should, by any right,...
There are two good rules-of-thumb when you’re defending liberal democracy against populists. The first is to stand by your principles. And the...
It was a small error in an otherwise excellent report, but that error mutated into a monstrous little gremlin and ate its authors alive. They put...
It’s a hollow laugh. Each time he does it, it sounds emptier than it was before. Rishi Sunak’s snigger tells you everything you need to know about...
He’s done it again. It’s quite spectacular – far beyond the realms of human expectation. The things that Rishi Sunak is doing are so stupid they...
Cruelty, followed by incompetence, culminating in disaster. That is the Home Office methodology. And the bleak undeniable reality of it was published...
A staggering degree of ineptitude this week, even by Rishi Sunak’s standards. He is operating with a degree of basic incompetence which we had...
Budgets are never the most exciting of parliamentary events, but today took the tedium to previously unimaginable new levels. The whole thing was...
There’s something obviously broken in the Conservative response to Lee Anderson. At first it seems almost comedic. But then, as you peel away the...
You couldn’t ask for better symbolism if you tried. Events in the Middle East are of the utmost seriousness. But in Westminster, MPs are playing an...
Grim week for the Labour Party, and a surprising one too. It’s proved vulnerable at its strongest point. Since Keir Starmer took hold of the party,...
It’s a stump. A pointless, redundant stump, sitting between London and the Midlands. A relic of a lost era in which we still dreamed that we might...
You have to keep on reminding yourself of the past. You have to cling to it, so you know you’re not going mad. You have to remember the lies and the...
For once in his life, Simon Clarke isn’t wrong. The former chief secretary to the Treasury published a piece in The Daily Telegraph yesterday which...
It was the opening skirmish in the Lords battle over the Rwanda bill. Last night, peers defeated the Government by 214 to 171 over a motion about...
And just like that, Lee Anderson was gone. Early yesterday evening, the vice-chair of the Conservative Party quit over an amendment to the Rwanda...
In they come at last. The amendments from Tory hardliners to the Rwanda bill were published on Tuesday night. They are gibberish piled upon nonsense,...
Nigel Farage is the ghost at the feast. He’s everywhere and nowhere: an absence that defines the world around it. You could feel that absence up on...
Today is the culmination of years of struggle. It is a moment of supreme national victory, after decades of persecution. People will finally be able...
Today is the culmination of years of struggle. It is a moment of supreme national victory, after decades of persecution. People will finally be able...
First Christmas, then pain. That’s the calendar sequence facing Rishi Sunak. He’ll get a decent little break now that parliament is in recess for...
Rishi Sunak keeps smiling. Every day, no matter the context, he plasters that smile on his face like a mask. Nothing can phase him. His MPs rebel, his...
He arrived under the cloak of darkness, three hours before his testimony to the Covid inquiry. That’s obviously not a normal thing for Boris Johnson...